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Date of source: Thursday, August 16, 2012
Today’s overview includes yet another quarrel between two Muslim and Christian families only nearly a week after the Dahshūr crisis first stirred by a burnt shirt was settled. However, this quarrel in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Sohag has some similarity to the Dahshūr problem; a trivial...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Today’s overview deals with calls by the Azhar on Muslim countries meeting at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in the Saudi city of Jeddah to withdraw the Arab initiative to settle the disputes between Israel and the Palestinians. It also tackles the Egyptian churches’ rejection...
Date of source: Sunday, August 12, 2012
Today’s overview tackles controversial statements by the former chief of the Muslim Brotherhood group, Muhammad Mahdī ‘Ākif in which he said that the MB will dominate the presidency, ministries embassies and all the state institutions and will also ikhwānize the people.
Date of source: Friday, August 10, 2012
Today’s overview still tackles the repercussions of the Dahshūr incidents as the newly-formed Christian Brotherhood group members are participating in a march called by the Maspero Youth Union and other Coptic movements to condemn to denounce the collective punishment and forced displacement of...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Today’s overview deals with the successful efforts by a conciliatory commission to settle the sectarian unrest between Muslims and Christians in the Giza district of Dahshūr in incidents that gripped the nation during the past couple of weeks.
Date of source: Thursday, August 9, 2012
Today’s overview highlights the return home of some Christian families displaced over clashes in the Giza district of Dahshūr and efforts by the salafī al-Nūr Party to contain another sectarian unrest in the northern Egypt governorate of al-Beheira.
Date of source: Sunday, August 5, 2012
Today's overview highlights the issue of Dahshūr, where calm has been restored and local residents have appealed to Coptic families who left their houses after unrest in the troubled area to return home. The al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyah (Islamic Group) said the Dahshūr clashes did not amount to a...
Date of source: Monday, August 6, 2012
The deadly terror attack that left several Egyptian army officers and soldiers killed or wounded on the borders with the Gaza Strip just as they were beginning to have their iftār (fast-breaking meal in the Muslim holy month of Ramadān) is the focal point of today’s overview which also deals with...
Date of source: Saturday, August 4, 2012
Security agencies in Giza identified 16 suspected perpetrators involved in the incidents in the troubled village of Dahshūr, where Copts’ stores and houses were pillaged and burnt during the past few days. [Muhammad Shūmān, al-Ahrām, Aug. 4, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Monday, July 30, 2012
Dr. Safwat al-Bayyādī, the head of the Coptic Evangelical Church and member of the constituent assembly that is drafting a new constitution for post-revolution Egypt, rejected demonstrations by some Coptic activists to urge churches to quit the panel. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Akhbār, July 30, p. 5...
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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.