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Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2011
In Banī Mazār village, al-Minya governorate, al-Shaykh Fadl Secondary School refused to let a Coptic girl, first secondary grade, in for the eighth day running for refusing to wear a hijāb.
When the girl's father went to school to object the measure, the school administration filed a libel report...
Date of source: Friday, September 30, 2011
Giza's security apparatus and the Artistic-Productions Investigation Department carried a campaign on a number of printing houses in Dokki (Duqqī), Imbābah and al-Warrāq for reprinting books not authorized for printing by its owners.
25 thousand books, seven thousand were calling for Shiism, were...
Date of source: Monday, September 26, 2011
The Egyptian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release a detained blogger who has been on hunger strike for over a month, Amnesty International said today.
The health of twenty-five year-old Maikel Nabil Sanad, who has been on hunger strike since 23 August, has greatly deteriorated...
Date of source: Thursday, September 15, 2011
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A report on the situation of religious freedoms around the world - and countries that have failed to effectively protect them - was issued yesterday (September 14) by the U.S. Department of State. Middle Eastern and African countries were numerous, and Egypt was one of these countries to be...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Ramsīs al-Najār, church lawyer and responsible for all the cases of reverting to Christianity, expressed his joy with the newly issued decision by the Ministry of Interior Affairs, which states the right for reverts to Christianity to obtain a new National ID Card.
He added that the decision was...
Date of source: Sunday, September 4, 2011
No matter what successes Prime Minister Essam Sharaf achieves together with his cabinet, he will always be discredited for underestimating public memory—a memory by no means poor. With that memory alertly registering details big and small on the Egyptian arena, Dr Sharaf has miserably failed. The...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 17, 2011
President of the Egyptian Democratic Union, Najīb Jubrā'īl, has informed Human Rights that the Ministry of Interior Affairs has agreed to amend returning Christians’ Identification Cards, affirming their conversion back into the religion.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 17, 2011
A proposed U.S. envoy designated to advocate for the rights of religious minorities in the Middle East is stirring controversy in Egypt, but supporters of the position in Washington say it is not meant to interfere in Egypt’s policies.
Date of source: Sunday, August 14, 2011
'Alī al-Silmī, the deputy prime minister for political affairs, in a meeting on Friday, presented a document entitled "Basic Constitutional Principles" to a number of Egyptian political parties, seeking their views on the document's contents.
Date of source: Friday, July 1, 2011
“During Mūbarak’s regime there were many restrictions on mosques that prevented them from performing many summer activities, while churches had greater freedom,” says Muhammad ‘Abd al-Qudūs, author of the article.
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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.