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Date of source: Monday, February 15, 2021
ʿAlāʾ Mubārak, son of former president Ḥusnī Mubārak, responded to MP Muṣṭafā Bakrī’s statement in which he stated that it was the former president who issued the decision to concede the islands Tīrān and Ṣanāfīr, saying, “Mr. Muṣṭafā Bakrī… stop distorting and falsifying history.”
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2012
Meanwhile, the Shūrá Council’s Constitutional & Legislative Affairs Committee came up with a report on its vision regarding the chapters on freedoms, the rule of law and the state’s powers in the constitution, to be discussed on Tuesday (July 17) as a guiding approach.
The committee proposed...
Date of source: Monday, April 23, 2012
Meanwhile, the People’s Assembly on Sunday grilled Muftī of the Republic Dr. ‘Alī Jum’ah over his recent visit to Jerusalem and the al-Aqsá Mosque and requested him to offer his resignation.
The majority of members of parliament considered the visit as undermining Jum’ah’s credibility, harming the...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 to Sunday, March 4, 2018
In a precedent inside the first parliament after the January 25 revolution, Salafī MP Mamdūh Ismā’īl stunned all fellow lawmakers when he recited the azān (Muslim call for prayers) for the ‘asr (afternoon) inside the People’s Assembly hall during debates.
Parliament Speaker Sa’d al-Katātnī...
Date of source: Sunday, January 8, 2012
Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā, Islamic thinker and presidential hopeful, greeted Copts through his Facebook account and attended the celebrations at the Evangelical church in Heliopolis.
Muhammad al-Barād’ī, for his part, greeted Copts through his Twitter account. Lt. General Husām Khayr Allah, a...
Date of source: Monday, November 28, 2011
The Freedom Egyptian Party (FEP) refused the documents allegedly affiliated to the church that urge Copts to vote for a certain list or candidates.
FEP is against mixing religion with politics and called on the church to clarify the source of this document.
[Reviewer's Note: News story was also...
Date of source: Friday, November 11, 2011
In an electoral conference for the representatives of the Democratic Coalition in the upcoming parliament elections, in a coffee shop at Shubrā, Amīn Iskandar, leader in Hizb al-Karāmah or al-Karāmah Party, said that the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) representatives in the upcoming parliamentary...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The Party Affairs Committee approved the formation of al-Hayāh Party, founded by Michael Munīr [Coptic activist and head of U.S. Coptic Association].
Munīr said that the party is liberal and not religious. It has Coptic and Muslim members and it believes in human rights and freedom under the...
Date of source: Friday, October 28, 2011
Copts are now anticipated to have a bigger change in the upcoming parliamentary elections, the first elections after the revolution, because the former regime was behind their non-existence on the political chess board.
However, a large number of Copts had joined the Egyptian bloc list which...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The Parties Affairs Committee agreed August 29 on the establishment of nationalist al-Karāmah (Dignity) Party and the subsidiary branch of the Salafi Party al-Asālah (Authenticity), the second Salafist party to be approved after al-Nūr (Light).
The authorization arrived after the legal and...
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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.