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Date of source: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
A conferee on Coptic problems was held in Zurich, Switzerland and tackled the current cares of Copts in Egypt where conflicting reports do not give a chance to reach the facts. The conference was organized by an Egyptian Copt who lives in Switzerland, Adli Abadier, and funded by several US and...
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 2004
An animated session of Watani Forum hosted a round-table discussion on Christians of the Arab World. Participating were a number of Egyptian intellectuals and religious figures, as well as Lebanese Jesuit Brother Danny Younis.
Date of source: Sunday, June 12, 2005
Bahīy al-Dīn Hasan, the Director of the Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies comments on the annual report that was released by the National Council for Human Right which has mentioned that Egypt was used as the CIA’s Mecca to torture prisoners and extort information before sending them either to...
Date of source: Monday, June 6, 2005
‘Abboud and his cousin Tāriq al-Zumur are suing George W. Bush because of the repercussions of his war on terrorism, which led to their illegal extension of detention since 2001. His lawsuit, requesting US$ 50 Mln. is based on and following the lead of the international campaign by victims of Bush’...
Date of source: Sunday, June 5, 2005
The recent call for political reform put an end to sectarianism in Egypt as all Egyptians, Muslims and Christians, united for one national request. A few months ago, media were covering sectarian problems and were even instigating both Muslims and the government against the Christians.
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, September 28, 2003
The article is based on two interviews with Dr. Tareq Mitri, a Lebanese professor and the head of the Islamic-Christian dialogue section at the World Council of Churches [and member of the Board of Advisors of AWR] and Coptic researcher Samir Marcos, counselor of inter-civilizational dialogue...
Date of source: Sunday, May 30, 2004
A large number of journalists signed a statement in protest of an article by Dr. Muhammad Emara printed by Al-Akhbar on May 21 in which he slandered Christianity. Meanwhile, the board of the Journalists’ Syndicate discussed in its meeting yesterday a complaint presented by a number of journalists...
Date of source: Sunday, May 30, 2004
Muhammad Emara continues his uninterrupted attack on Christianity in the newspaper of Al-Akhbar which is, supposedly, a national paper that should not be open to this type of writings that offend the faith of Egyptian citizens.
This type of writings shows that the creation of political parties on...
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
Journalists, both Muslim and Coptic, continue to sign a statement that denounces Muhammad Emara’s writings affronting Christianity in Al-Akhbar newspapers. Emara gives no heed to the complaining voices rising around him. He acts as if he is certain that no body can stand in his way. The key mistake...
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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.