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Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 1999
Non-Moslems enjoyed the rights of complete citizenship in the state of Islam that was there one thousand years ago. We hope the world remembers this great history of Islam so we do not hear any more of ethnic cleansing.
Date of source: Sunday, September 12, 1999
Dr. William Suleiman Qilada who recently died was a venerable judge. He was a Copt who devoted his life to strengthen national unity between Copts and Muslims in Egypt. He repeatedly wrote about citizenship and areas related to assessment, choice and criteria of citizenship.
Date of source: Friday, August 20, 1999 to Friday, August 27, 1999
Historical facts and evidences prove that Egyptian monasteries and Coptic churches in the Christian era were a centre for study, copying and inscribing manuscripts and documents of the Coptic era. There was rarely a church that didn’t have a library. Monks were clever at inscribing and binding...
Date of source: Sunday, August 22, 1999
The discussion at the press conference of the New York Council of Churches on June 28 [transcript presented in last week’s RNSAW] was mainly with members of the American Coptic Union. Before the press conference Drs. Cornelis Hulsman interviewed Rafique Iscander, chairman and founder of the...
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 1999
Charles Montagu Doughty (1843-1926) is the forgotten man of Arabian exploration. Doughty made a point of traveling openly and fearlessly, defiantly proclaiming his status as a Christian. Not surprisingly, he was snubbed, humiliated, beaten up and threatened with death.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 3, 1999
The author contends that what exists in Egypt is a sort of tribal fanaticism. He says that this may manifest itself on occasion but religious fanaticism is unknown by Egyptians.
Date of source: Thursday, July 15, 1999 to Wednesday, July 21, 1999
Only in legend were the Crusaders chivalrous knights. In reality, they were ruthless invaders who hacked a bloody trail through the Holy Land in their quest to capture Jerusalem. But they left behind an impressive archaeological legacy.
Date of source: Thursday, July 15, 1999 to Wednesday, July 21, 1999
The Crusades are celebrating their 900 anniversary. The 900th anniversary of the First Crusade is important because of the enduring misconceptions about each other that have been foisted upon Muslims and Christians alike through the endless retelling of events which writers have emptied entirely...
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 1999 to Wednesday, July 14, 1999
Otto Meinardus, a leading authority on the Coptic Church, wrote a new book called ’Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity’. The present work is a compact hardback publication which, according to the cover, is "a new, definite, one-volume history for the Millennium, surveying the twenty centuries...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 13, 1999
Nine hundred years after the Crusaders swept in to wrest the Holy Land from Muslim "infidels" in a fury of blood and fire, Christians retracing their path arrived in Jerusalem Monday [July 12, 1999] to apologies for the crimes of their ancestors. "We came here to acknowledge that what was done then...
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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.