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Date of source: Sunday, February 3, 2008
The Azhar recently released a fatwá that calls for tough penalties against people who convert to Islam and then revert back to their original religion. Opinions are divided as to what effect this fatwá could have on Egyptian society.
Date of source: Sunday, January 27, 2008
Muhammad Hijāzī, the controversial convert to Christianity speaks for the first time to the Egyptian press. He announces the birth of his daughter and asserts that he will continue to fight to achieve official recognition of his conversion.
Date of source: Sunday, January 27, 2008
The article reports on the statements of the participants of a seminar organized by Watanī salon along with the Committee of Freedoms at the Journalists’ Syndicate to discuss the possible means of activating the recommendations of the citizenship conference that was organized by the National...
Date of source: Sunday, January 27, 2008
The head of the Middle East Freedom Forum Magdi Khalil lays out the goals, aims and methods of his new organization and beseeches Egyptians to support and encourage its work.
Date of source: Monday, January 21, 2008
Yūsuf Wahīb comments on Pope Shenouda’s advice for Coptic Orthodox not to get married to non-Orthodox.
Date of source: Monday, January 21, 2008
The author, Hānī Ahmad Rizq, claims that a state of sectarian tension stormed the village of Miniyat al-Hayt in al-Fayyūm as a result of a Muslim villager accusing a Coptic family of kidnapping and harming his wife.
Date of source: Sunday, January 27, 2008
The article looks at recent incidents of fundamentalism in Egypt, citing the examples of a university course at Alexandria University and an Islamic thinker who has accused priests of secretly baptising converts.
Date of source: Sunday, January 20, 2008
The article looks at a new religious survey, Freedom in the World, which claims that none of the Christian communities in the Middle East are completely free. The author analyzes the changing face of Christianity in the Middle East and the reasons behind its recent decline.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Rumors have emerged on the Web chat program PalTalk claiming that a Muslim girl was kidnapped and tortured to death after following her conversion to Christianity.
Date of source: Sunday, January 13, 2008
The article discusses the case of two Christian girls whose father has converted to Islam. A court ruling has ordered that their mother hand over her two children to their father so that they can be raised as Muslims.
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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.