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Date of source: Thursday, January 14, 2021
Ṣafwat al-Sharīf, former Minister of Information under late president Ḥusnī Mubārak, died at the age of 88. His death came following a struggle with leukemia, and several days after becoming infected with the Coronavirus.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Since the June 30 revolution, Egypt has laid a foundation stone to anchor the values of citizenship and national unity; by raising the principles of equality and combating discrimination and sectarianism. As the prince of poetry Aḥmad Shawqī said “We are Muslims and Copts… one nation over the...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Shaykh Jābir Ṭāyiʿ, head of the religious sector at the Ministry of Endowments [al-Awqāf], refused to have an interview with Aljazeera [al-Jazīra] to respond to its allegations of corruption within the endowment affairs management.
Date of source: Monday, November 23, 2020
The long history of the Muslim Brotherhood’s violence towards Copts began during the 1950s when they destroyed Coptic homes and churches in Suez [al-Suways] and continued under the Muslim Brotherhood’s rule of Egypt in 2012 and afterwards.
Date of source: Thursday, November 19, 2020
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) was established in 2002. Its goal was to strengthen and defend basic rights and freedoms in Egypt. However, since its founding 18 years ago, it has become clear that its real goal was to attack the Egyptian state and constantly try to bring down...
Date of source: Thursday, August 6, 2020
Not only was al-Azhar one of the only educational institutions in existence before Muḥammad ʻAlī, it was also always at the helm of the Egyptian independence movement. Its scholars were leaders in the successful efforts to liberate Egypt from French occupation. They were also the leaders of the...
Date of source: Thursday, November 5, 2020
Egyptians have been following the American elections this year with unprecedented interest. Some of them are against Donald Trump since he declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel and moved the American embassy there. Others are against Joe Biden because they believe that he will impose the...
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The following text contains sensitive information and highlights various concerns from an Egyptian ambassador regarding foreign influence on political and environmental decisions and movements in Egypt.
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Having a PhD degree is not a guarantee for good academic work. Dr. Mahmoud Omar [Maḥmūd ʿUmar] may have been a good archeologist, but he ruined his own academic reputation by interpreting medieval traditions as historical facts, as descriptions that have actually happened.
Date of source: Monday, September 7, 2020
The Coptic Orthodox Church announced that a new issue of the magazine al-Kirāza will only be published electronically due to the Coronavirus.
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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.