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Date of source: Saturday, May 16, 2015
A group of students attending Cairo University’s College of Media, Department of Film and Television have finished the production of the first documentary film about Monks and Nuns in Egypt. The students visited several monasteries and convents in the making of the film. Ibrāhīm Māhir, a member of...
Date of source: Saturday, May 16, 2015
The British newspaper, the Times, released a report on the Muslim Brotherhood which concluded that the organization has made a dramatic return to the Egyptian political scene. According to the newspaper, many young people have joined the Brotherhood since its fall during the military coup. A leader...
Date of source: Saturday, May 16, 2015
After nearly a year under Sīsī, Egypt’s Christian minority has mixed feelings in regards to progress made during his presidency on Coptic issues. Some praised his visits to cathedrals, his strong reaction to the killing of 21 Egyptian Copts in Libya, and his approval of the building of several new...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 12, 2015
‘Alā’ ‘Abd al-Tawāb, the director for the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights, spoke about a recent sentence from the high administrative court which allows the automatic transfer of employees participating in a strike to early retirement. He added that the ruling violates the...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 12, 2015
The Israeli Army allowed classified information to be published about explosions it coordinated inside Egypt. Seeking to undermine the Brotherhood by promoting the notion that the group uses violence and terrorism, the Israeli army staged the explosions to appear as though the Brotherhood had...
Date of source: Saturday, May 2, 2015
The American television network Fox News reported that even under President Sīsī, Copts in Egypt still feel isolated and persecuted. One Coptic activist said “we are always the weakest group in society, so when anything happens in any country we are always the first victims.”
(7 May, 2015, Bawābat...
Date of source: Friday, December 30, 2011
The persons who launched a Facebook page called Committee to Promote Virtue and Prevent Vice in Egypt announced their “total independence” from al-Nūr Party and the Salafī Da’wah (Call) due to “the shameful position of the party that denied any relationship with this page”.
They said that they will...
Date of source: Friday, December 30, 2011
Political powers, the Egyptian Revolution Union and some revolutionary movements and coalitions in Alexandria refused organizing any demonstrations today (Dec. 30) in response to the coastal city residents’ calls for calm. The Revolutionary Socialists group, however, shrugged off the calls and said...
Date of source: Friday, December 30, 2011
In a fear-dispelling step by Islamists, religious parties and entities competed to offer congratulations for Copts on the occasion of the Eastern Christmas and form human shields to protect Christian houses of worship during the celebrations. “The Salafī Da’wah (Call) Organization has formed human...
Date of source: Thursday, December 29, 2011
The Administrative Judiciary Court handed down a ruling canceling a decision by the Clerical Council divorcing an Orthodox Christian citizen and granting him a remarriage permit. Evon Nabīl 'Azīz had filed a lawsuit before the court against Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III and the minister of...
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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.