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Date of source: Sunday, February 3, 2008
The article discusses the flaws in the education system in Egypt. The author believes that concerns about education are divided into two camps; those that are worried about the physical and logistical aspects of the problem and those that are more worried about the educational process. The author...
Date of source: Sunday, January 27, 2008
Hānī Labīb calls to create a new program in the Egyptian educational process to be focused on educating pupils and students of all educational levels on the rights and duties related to elections.
Date of source: Sunday, January 20, 2008
The article discusses the two year old case of a student at Minya University who was discriminated against and the university did nothing to resolve the issue. In an unprecedented move the head of department then handed in his resignation as a sign of his outrage toward the university.
Date of source: Sunday, January 13, 2008
A student who graduated from Assiut University in 2006 hoped to be offered a permanent position at the university but the university decided not to appoint him. Moreover, when he applied to do a PhD he was told that he had been rejected because there were not enough supervisors. The author of the...
Date of source: Sunday, August 19, 2007
A new institute related to the Coptic Orthodox Church provides professional training courses for Egyptian and non-Egyptian youth to fight the unemployment problem. Different Egyptian institutions will participate in the project.
Date of source: Sunday, August 19, 2007
Youssef Sidhom discusses bias in the Egyptian university system. Using one student as an example of the larger problems inherent in the system, the author discusses the presence of unjust practices that turn Egyptian “universities into fiefdoms the residents of which are either lords or slaves.”
Date of source: Sunday, August 12, 2007
The following article presents the case of a young woman, Inas Fakhri Faragallah Girgis, who’s request to continue with her Masters degree have repeatedly been postponed, despite first having been approved by her university’s Faculty of Law.
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2007
‘Ulā ‘Ādil reports on the exchange of accusations between Catholic Franciscan nuns and other Catholic nuns who belong to the Jerusalemite Wardīyah order over the administration of a school in Heliopolis in Cairo.
Date of source: Sunday, June 24, 2007
Nabīl ‘Abd al-Malik attempts to sail deeper to the roots of the current socio-political, economic, and cultural crises storming the Arab and Islam worlds. He believes that Egypt, at the heart of both worlds, is affected by the changes taking place in the region, which appears in the sectarian...
Date of source: Sunday, June 24, 2007
While moderate voices call for equality and denounce discrimination, the author reports the alleged expulsion of the head of the Department of Industry and Professional Diseases at al-Qaṣr al-‘Aynī Faculty of Medicine for the simple reason of being a Christian.
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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.