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Date of source: Wednesday, September 17, 1997
Subtitle:Saad Zaghloul distributed
bibles to excellent students and made, for the first time, the study of
Christianity a scholastic
subjectNot mentioning the religion on the identity card is an important request.
Syria did it, but
Egypt continues to refuseThere is a belief that Copts are rich...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 18, 1997
Egypt is often criticized abroad for its treatment of its Christian citizens. Prominent Coptic thinker Dr. Milad Hanna, confirmed that equality between Muslims and Christians is not there. Lu’iy Mahmoud Sa’id, himself a Muslim, describes how Muslim authors attacked Milad Hanna for stating his view...
Date of source: Sunday, July 23, 2006
The author complains about the absence of Coptic names from the list of students who gained the highest grades in the thānawīya ‘amma [Egyptian high school].
Date of source: Saturday, April 8, 2006 to Friday, April 14, 2006
The author
sends a letter to Rose al-Yousuf
magazine highlighting some important points regarding his
position concerning the crisis of Dr.
Mīrā [Mīrā Māhir Ra’ouf], a Christian researcher
who claims to have faced
religious discrimination at al-Minya University.
Date of source: Sunday, November 11, 2001
A young Christian woman was appointed as an
assistant professor in the Islamic Studies Department. She was not sure that the Faculty would accept her joining
the department, in which only Muslim students study. However her intelligence encouraged her Muslim professors to
support her, regardless...
Date of source: Monday, March 20, 2006
A Muslim physician has resigned over the rejection of a young Coptic woman’s application to be appointed to the pediatrics department at al-Minyā University because of her faith.
Date of source: Monday, March 13, 2006
Dr. Sālim Ahmad Sālim, a Muslim professor of pediatrics at al-Minia University medicine school has submitted his resignation after the mistreatment of one of his Coptic students.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 8, 2006
The author warns of troublemakers stirring up sectarian sedition at al-Minia University after a student is refused her master’s degree in pediatrics because she is Christian.
Date of source: Friday, March 17, 2006
Karīma Suaydān opens the sensitive file of the appointment of Copts to vital positions through presenting the case of Dr. Mīrā Ra’ouf, who accuses the council of the Faculty of Medicine, University of al-Minia of refusing to nominate her as assistant teacher at the pediatrics department due to her...
Date of source: Sunday, March 5, 2006
Father Shenouda Marqus rejects the Danish cartoons and expresses his understanding for the angry feelings of Muslims, but at the same time wonders why Muslims in Egypt do not show the same level of sanctity towards Christianity, which he feels is being humiliated everyday in Egypt.
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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.