Bayyādī said the meeting will also deal with Evangelical Christians’ views about the development of education, decisions of the ‘urfī (informal) conciliatory council in crises that erupt between Muslims and Christians while the application of the law is ignored and the FJP’s vision about creativity, art and cinema.

He said that the meeting, to be attended by 15 figures, came upon an initiative from the church and is also set to discuss the interior ministry’s recent crisis after a number of police officers said they would grow their beards in observance of the Prophet Muhammad’s tradition. [Ahmad al-Sa’dāwī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Feb. 28, p. 6] Read text in Arabic