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Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
Mursī welcomed Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awā within consultations between the President and political powers. There were speculations that the meeting dealt with a proposal to include ‘Awā in the presidential team. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, August 2, p. 1] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
The salafī al-Nūr Party refused the environmental affairs portfolio.Prime Minister Dr. Hishām Qandīl had phoned Khālid ‘Alam al-Dīn, a member of al-Nūr (Light) Party, to offer him the position of Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, but the Party refused and considered the offer as an...
Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
In another development, Nādir al-Sirafī, a spokesperson of the 1938 Copts Movement, said he sent a letter to Field Marshal Husayn Tantāwī, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) that included complaints about the state’s slackness to solve the crisis between the movement and the...
Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
Head of the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organization Counselor Najīb Jabrā’īl, for his part, called heads of churches to withdraw from the Family House initiative in protest against the persecution of and attacks against Copts.Jabrā’īl warned that Copts could leave the country and said that the...
Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
General Bishop Theodosius of Giza called the Egyptian authorities to enforce the law on everyone and to stop thuggery and pillaging of citizens’ private property. He made the remarks in a statement on the incidents of Dahshūr. He also called for the return of Copts to their houses in the village...
Date of source: Thursday, August 2, 2012
Major General Ahmad Sālim al-Nāghī, Director of Giza Security Department, sent 12 formations of the anti-riot police in an attempt to contain the explosive situation and end clashes between Muslims and Christians. Both sides began hurling stones and shooting indiscriminately, injuring the senior...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
[Reviewer’s Note: Article II of the Egyptian Constitution reads, “Islam is the official religion of the state, Arabic its official language and the principles of Islamic sharī’ah are the main source of legislation”. Salafists seek removing the word ‘principles’ or replacing it with the word ‘...
Date of source: Sunday, March 4, 2012
A top theorist of the Jamā’ah, Ibrāhīm preferred to quit any posts in the group and focused on reconsidering all political and fiqh (jurisprudence) visions being pursued during the early years of the group. He has become a model of altering extremist ideologies and switching bravely to moderation...
Date of source: Monday, May 28, 2012
Rev. Rif’at Fikrī Sa’īd, the chairman of the Information & Publishing Council of the Coptic Evangelical Synod of the Nile, said his church has always been democratic and calls for equality and respect for human rights, adding the church has never directed its members to vote for any candidate...
Date of source: Monday, May 28, 2012
Dozens of Copts protested outside the Supreme Court to reject verdicts sentencing 12 Christians to 25-year imprisonment terms in the case of sectarian unrest in Abū Qurqās, al-Minya, in April. [‘Abd al-Wahāb Sha’bān, al-Wafd, May 28, p. 1] Read original text in Arabic
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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.