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Date of source: Sunday, May 15, 2011
The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) assigned a commissioner from amongst its member to follow up on religious tensions and the necessary procedures to deal rapidly with the tension.
Date of source: Sunday, May 15, 2011
AWR's Managing Director Hānī Labīb writes an article about his experience in Maspero when he visited the Copts protest, protesting against Imbābah incidents where two churches were burned by salafists.
Date of source: Thursday, May 12, 2011
In the absence of firm political and social action, the events in Imbābah may not be the last episode of sectarian strife.
An activist says Muslims and Christians are living in a state of acute polarization, in which you can easily find Christians who think that all Muslims are violent and Muslims...
Date of source: Saturday, May 7, 2011
Thousands of Copts descended on the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in ‘Abbāssīyah, Cairo on Friday, May 6, in response to a Salafi Muslim demonstration at the same location a week earlier
Date of source: Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Hilmī al-Namnam writes that there are enemies of the January 25 revolution inside and outside Egypt, who have an interest in scuppering the revolution, that is why they use the fitnah, the recent of which was in Imbābah.
He added that there is a salafī incitement for quiet some time, when they...
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2011
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2011
The Salafī demonstration and subsequent attacks on Coptic Orthodox churches in the poor Cairo suburb of Imbābah on Saturday reportedly began after claims that a Christian woman, 'Abīr, had converted to Islam for marital reasons and later ran 'Awwāy. Whatever the truth of these claims, the fact...
Date of source: Saturday, April 30, 2011
Sa'd al-Dīn Ibrāhīm comments on Qena's incidents, protests to oust the Coptic governor, saying that people felt free after the revolution.
One of the reasons for the protests might be that the governor is a policeman, and the police was one of the institutions mostly detested by the people after...
Date of source: Thursday, April 28, 2011
There are no natural reasons for Upper Egypt to have fitnah tā'ifīyah for more than 30 years but indeed there are political, security, economic, social, salafī, sexual, and terrorist reasons.
These reasons are keeping the file of fitnah in several governorates like Qena, Asyut and al-Minya.
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Date of source: Friday, April 22, 2011
Egypt has deployed extra police and troops to the central al-Minya province after a dispute between two Christian and Muslim families sparked deadly sectarian clashes.
A curfew has been imposed on the town of Abū Qurqās after a dispute between the two families over the building of a speed bump...
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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.