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Date of source: Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Angry protests by Coptic Christians demanding the return of 25-year-old Kāmilyā Shihāta Zākhir, the wife of Priest Tadāwus Sam‘ān, the pastor of Mar Girgis Church in Deir Mwās , al-Minya, fizzled out as state security handed her over to the Church.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Georgette Qillini considers the historic relations between Muslims and Christians, finding that great cooperation was found in the Muhammad 'Alī era but has been strained given recent developments and sectarian tensions.
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Date of source: Sunday, May 2, 2010
Wafā’ Wasfī reports on Hānīn ‘Abd al-Masīh, a Copt who recently published a book discussing his conversion from Orthodoxy.
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Extremists’ campaigns are growing over a project to develop religious education and modify theological textbooks inside schools in a bid to render religious curricula more tolerant and accepting of the others, through the emphasis on common values.
Date of source: Friday, May 7, 2010
Osāma al-Ghazūlī describes Egypt’s history as a special land of coexistence and harmony while noting that in recent times many wish to leave this history behind in favor or sectarianism.
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Dozens of young Copts staged a demonstration within the St. Mark Cathedral building in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīya, just before Pope Shenouda III of the Coptic Orthodox Church, delivered his weekly Wednesday sermon. He called for the acceleration of the handing down of a court ruling in the...
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Waves of official and intellectual protests against a symposium organized by al-Yawm al-Sābi‘ newspaper that hosted novelist and academic Yūsuf Zaydān, author of the controversial book “Azazel,” which angered the Coptic Orthodox Church and spurred many Christian clergymen and thinkers to sue him.
Date of source: Saturday, May 1, 2010 to Friday, May 7, 2010
This article outlines one group’s efforts to ban the new version of “The Arabian Nights.” This type of censorship has been increasing in Egypt recently.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Rashād Kāmil, in an article in Rose al-Yūsuf, refers to a call issued by sixteen Palestinian Christian figures, asking Christians worldwide to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Munīr Fakhrī ‘Abd Al-Nūr examines protest movements again the National Democratic Party, reflecting on their causes, effectiveness, and Al- Barād‘ī'’s role in the future of Egyptian politics.
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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.