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Date of source: Sunday, July 31, 2011
Military experts have said that the Egyptian people will not accept the existence of an Islamic state. Major General Jamāl Maẓlūm (Gen.) said, "Whatever the percentage of participants [were Muslim] at the rally in Taḥrīr Square...I do not think that the people of Egypt are moving towards a...
Date of source: Sunday, July 24, 2011
Dr. Abū al-Futūḥ, a likely presidential candidate in the upcoming elections, has attacked Dr. 'Isām Sharaf, Prime Minister, and his government, claiming that they need to do more work for the Egyptian people. He criticized the slow decisions made by Sharaf's government, and called for them to...
Date of source: Thursday, June 30, 2011
Field Marshal Husayn Tantāwī, the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), received on Wednesday (June 29, 2011) Ambassador William Burns, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, and his accompanying delegation, currently on a visit to Egypt.
The meeting took up recent developments in...
Date of source: Sunday, June 26, 2011
In the 19 March referendum on constitutional amendments, 77 percent of Egyptians voted in favor of holding elections before drafting the new constitution. This was the only clean referendum in Egyptian history, despite a few procedural glitches and the fact that religion was used to influence some...
Date of source: Saturday, June 25, 2011
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) warned against foreign interference to spark a sectarian sedition in Egypt while Muslim and Christian clerics agreed that dialogue is the best way now among Egyptians in order to overcome any sectarian calls.
Participants in a symposium, held by the...
Date of source: Saturday, June 25, 2011
Coptic Pope Shenouda III met with U.S. ambassador in Cairo Margaret Scobey, whose tour of duty expires soon.
A church source told al-Wafd newspaper, the mouthpiece of the opposition al-Wafd party, that Pope Shenouda, during the meeting, expressed his confidence in the Supreme Council of the Armed...
Date of source: Monday, June 20, 2011
Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III gave instructions to prohibit the use of churches in any propaganda during the forthcoming presidential elections in a bid to preserve the sacredness of the house of worship.
The pope had received several reports that some priests in the Mediterranean city of...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 21, 2011
The Supreme Administrative Court set the July 2 session to resume considering the case of re-converters to Christianity.
A number of Copts had converted to Islam and later converted back to Christianity and asked the interior ministry to have their personal information proving their Christian, not...
Date of source: Saturday, June 11, 2011
How popular is the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood? As AWR's Jayson Casper points out, we may only know for sure after this fall's election....
Date of source: Wednesday, June 1, 2011
CAIRO - The January 25 revolution is having a momentous impact on the Coptic Church. “The Copts will ignore Church policies,” surmised Mamoun Fendi, president of Fendi Associates, a Washington DC-based research group and think-tank, during the 18-day revolution.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.