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Date of source: Tuesday, April 12, 2005
The Abu Al-Matameer issue caused a commotion in Egypt and brought Muslims and Christians to fanatically favor their own faiths, opening the door for myriad questions that must be answered transparently by the society so as to avoid eruption of Muslim-Christian sedition.
Date of source: Sunday, December 12, 2004
Last week witnessed wrathful demonstrations of thousands of Copts who conducted a five-day sit-in at the premises of St Mark’s cathedral at Abassiya, Cairo, which is also the papal seat. They were demanding the return of a priest’s wife who had disappeared under suspicious circumstances, and who,...
Date of source: Sunday, December 12, 2004
Forty-six-year-old Ms Costantin left home as usual on Saturday 27 November to go to work at the local office of the Agricultural Reform Authority where she is an agriculturalist, and has not been seen since. She was reported missing at the local police station.
Date of source: Sunday, December 12, 2004
Another virtual pressure vessel in the Beheira village of Abul-Matameer, west of the Delta, is on the verge of blowing up. Article about Wafā’ Costantine.
Date of source: Thursday, December 9, 2004
Every now and then the US ambassador Cairo tries to tear the Egyptian national tissue under the pretext of religious persecution [of Copts], while the reality in Egypt proves the contrary. Since the American ambassador arrived to Cairo four years ago, he has been using any incident to vent his...
Date of source: Sunday, December 5, 2004
The clerical council of Assiut is expected to issue a public statement to explain maters since the file on the problems of the building and restoration of churches and the preservation of religious sites in Assiut was opened last week. It is hoped that all evidence of the implication of local...
Date of source: Sunday, December 5, 2004
The long pent – up in Assiut finally exploded last week. For anyone close to the events, this came as no surprise. In fact it was bound to happen as long as religious discrimination was left unchecked, allowed to spread without the slightest attempt at any correction or cure, and as long as...
Date of source: Sunday, November 28, 2004
Like an ice ball, sectarian sedition feeds on all it encounters en route, thus growing larger and more threatening to national unity in Egypt, read a feature by Al-Arabi!
A few days back, sectarian sedition flames came to the surface in Assiut with one of the National Democratic Party NDP leaders...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 16, 2002
The article tells the conversion story of the American woman Dai Richardson. She converted to Islam after the September 11 attacks, although she was very surprised that some Muslims could commit something like this.
Date of source: Monday, February 20, 2006
The five-day disappearance of Hāydī Samīr Hakīm, 21, from al-Fashn village, Beni Suef governorate has prompted Coptic villagers to stage a sit-in in the local church, calling on security officials to investigate the matter.
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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.