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Date of source: Sunday, February 1, 2004
The article takes the form of a letter directed to Mr. President Muhammad Husni Mubarak about the difficulties Copts face in following the procedures needed for obtaining permissions for building churches and their service-offering annexes. The author holds security authorities responsible for...
Date of source:
Sheikh
Youssef El Badry caused a storm by sending a court usher [mahdar] to the head of Radio and
Television Union, and actor and talk show host Samir Sabri because of a television talk show,
Heza Al-Masa’ [This Evening] that discussed the issue of female genital mutilation [FGM]. Among
the...
Date of source: Thursday, February 12, 2004
Pope Shenouda III, the pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of the Sea
of Saint Mark, denied the mediation of the church in the divorce cases of Coptic Christians,
reaffirming that everybody is treated the same.
Date of source: Thursday, December 23, 2004
This report explains the escalations following the alleged conversion of a priest’s wife to Islam. Much background is given to the cultural context that explain why such an issue is so sensitive in Egypt. The report also shows that several of the organizers of the demonstration in Cairo have done...
Date of source: Friday, April 1, 2005
Some 240 homes in Egypt meet
their waterloo on a daily basis as women get their divorce rulings in courts every six minutes while five million women are
not aware they are divorced, according to the figures of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics
(CAPMAS).
Date of source: Tuesday, April 5, 2005
By assuming a civil, political role, the [Coptic]
Orthodox Church deviated from its religious mission to adopt the sectarian isolationist ideology of the Umma al-Qibtīya
“Coptic Nation Group” to become a “draft state”[in other words ‘Imāra is accusing the church of being separatist],
following...
Date of source: Saturday, March 19, 2005
Azhar education has remained unchanged and undeveloped for a long time in accordance with an axiom that the seventh century in the Arabian Peninsula was the best of times ever. Through the ages, the Azhar has also proved so lenient as to change with the developments.
Date of source: Thursday, March 31, 2005
Khālid al-Za‘farānī, a former member of the Brotherhood and secretary general of the frozen Labor Party, announced the establishment of a new party under the name Hizb al-Islāh wa al-‘Adāla wa al-Tanmīya [Reform, Justice and Development, and said would go through the paper work for his party soon...
Date of source: Sunday, March 13, 2005
Six years ago, Dr. Ramsīs ‘Awad, the renowned professor of English literature at ‘Ayn Shams University, produced a unique 700-page encyclopedia. The encyclopedia lists the most important and famous works of literature and art that have been confiscated worldwide. He gave a copy of the encyclopedia...
Date of source: Sunday, March 6, 2005
The Church is celebrating every March 9 the anniversary of the departure of Pope Kirollos VI and the virtuous heritage he left in the Church.
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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.