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Date of source: Sunday, December 1, 2002
Muslim intellectual Sayyed Al-Qimni believes that considering Islam as the official religion of the State implies the existence of other informal religions, a situation which signifies the exclusion from all citizenship rights of holders of other religions. Whenever a sectarian problem arises,...
Date of source: Sunday, December 22, 2002
The motto "Religion is for God and the homeland is for all of us" gained ground in Egypt during the first half of the 20th century. Egyptians believed that faiths, rituals and feasts should be mutually respected by the holders of different faiths. The author tries to answer the question: what...
Date of source: Sunday, May 15, 2005
Watani’s editorial on 24 April dealt with the not – so – uncommon ‘ error’ committed by civil register officials, when they register Christian citizens in the new computerized official documents as Muslims, then penalize the victims of the errors by sending them on arduous wild- goose errands to...
Date of source: Sunday, April 6, 2003
The author comments on the court ruling that acquitted Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim and on the legal reasoning behind it.
Date of source: Sunday, April 4, 2004
The article consists of two parts. The first part is the letter Watani received from Mr. Hisham Talaat Mustafa, chairman of the board of Al-Rehab company, in response to Watani’s editorial of 21 March dealt with a complaint of Christian residents of the new Cairo town of al-Rihab. The original town...
Date of source: Sunday, May 9, 2004
Last Sunday, another deplorable incident of sectarian prejudice occurred in the village of Taha al-Ameda in Samalot, Minya, in Upper Egypt. Three innocent victims including Father Ibrahim al-Qiss Mikhail, priest of the local Mar Mina church, lost their lives. Three others—including the responsible...
Date of source: Sunday, May 9, 2004
Al-Ahram daily wrote that “The French magazine Le Point has written that Copts enjoy their full legitimate rights and that controversy over Copts’ rights as Egyptian citizens living on equal terms with Muslims, has ended It is clear from the original Le Point text that al-Ahram printed only part of...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 5, 2004
Washington DC (5/2/04) - In the early morning hours of Sunday, May 2nd, Egyptian police forces in El Minia, Egypt arrested a Coptic priest and four other Copts. After loading [sic!!] the Copts onto a police truck, Egyptian police drove the speeding vehicle into a water canal, killing three of the...
Date of source: Thursday, May 6, 2004
A police officer arrested five Christians in the early hours of Sunday 2 May in the village of Taha Al-‘Amada, El Minia. Father Ibrahim Mikhail and four others were charged with the unlawful construction of a church fence. The arrested men were bound and placed in the back of a rented vehicle....
Date of source: Sunday, May 16, 2004
Following the lamentable incident which took place two weeks ago in the village of Taha al-‘Ameda in Samalut, and which left in its wake three dead and three wounded. Lieutenant Ahmed Al-Kilany was suspended from service, in preparation for an inquiry. Lieutenant Al-Kilany will be questioned on his...
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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.