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Date of source: Monday, April 18, 2011
On April 17, 2011, protests in Qena, demanding the ouster of a newly-appointed Coptic governor, continued for the third day in a row.
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2011
A group of salafists in al-Menoufiya governorate set a Muslim shrine on fire under the pretext that tombs of Muslim scholars, considered holy by many Muslims, are against the Muslim faith.
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Ahmad al-Tayīb said that whoever demands the destruction of shrines belong to bloody...
Date of source: Monday, November 29, 2010
Pope Shenouda III visited the Muhammad Farīd School in Shubrā today to vote in the parliamentary elections. The Pope urged all Egyptians to go out and vote. A large number of people came out to welcome the Pope as he talked about the importance of political contribution and voting and sad that he...
Date of source: Thursday, November 18, 2010
Investigations in the Qena case show that owners of the burned down houses do not suspect Muslims to be responsible for the fire which took the whole neighborhood by surprise. Qena Security Director ‘Ādil Mahnā said that, despite everything being back to normal, security forces and firefighters are...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Muhammad Hamdī warns against keeping the proverbial microphone in the hands of the ignorant, who distort historical and religious facts through standing in public, propagating false information. Hamdī stresses that such behavior leads to faltering relationships between countries and diplomatic...
Date of source: Saturday, September 18, 2010
The Supreme State Security Emergency Court in Qena sees the defendants of the Nagaa Hamady Massacre's appeal today. The hearing was initially postponed after the defendants' attorneys and Bishop Kirolos failed to attend the previous hearing. The authorities have made sure the route between the...
Date of source: Thursday, August 6, 2009
The authors report the situation of facing the swine flu in Egypt during ‘Umrah and traditional mawlids.
Date of source: Thursday, July 2, 2009
Muhammad Hamdī writes about fitnah between Muslims
and Christians in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Fāyiz Ghālī is an Egyptian script writer who has finished his script that depicts the life of Jesus Christ through the Holy Family’s trip to Egypt. In spite of what he considered positive signs from the church about the movie, he announced that he will seek foreign funding if the church rejects the...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
This article comments on the incident of altering the names of streets to Islamic ones, clarifying the negative effect such sectarian phenomenon has on national unity in Egypt.
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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.