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Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2023
Throughout 2023, al-Azhar magazine has published several articles by renowned scholars of al-Azhar in Egypt and the Arab world on a host of important topics, such as studies of the Qurʾān and the Sunnah, heritage, discourse renewal issues, scholarly studies of the sharīʿa, history, and the Arabic...
Date of source: Sunday, October 1, 2023
Bāqī Zakī Yūsuf, one of the most renowned major generals in the October 1973 war, was the mastermind behind opening loopholes within the earthen embankment known as the Bar Lev Line with the use of water pressure.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 2, 2022
In the presence of a group of religious and political leaders, XploreNations Bible College, in partnership with the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo (ETSC) , held a symposium on the doctoral thesis “Pope Shinūda III (1923-2012): a historical study”, which was obtained by the researcher in...
Date of source: Thursday, December 16, 2021
Last November, an Egyptian court sentenced lawyer and intellectual Aḥmad ʿAbduh Māhir to five years in prison for “contempt of religion” because of his book The Nation’s Misguidance in the Jurisprudence of the Imams, which criticized religious heritage. The court concluded that the book violated...
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2022
Coptic emigration has gone through numerous stages for different reasons. “Coptic diaspora” (aqbāṭ al-mahjar) mainly refers to Coptic immigration to European countries, the US, and Australia. Waves of migration to these countries began in the early 1960s, and it was a common for Egyptian citizens...
Date of source: Monday, August 23, 2021
The interview with Dr Amr Assad Khalil [ʿAmrū Asʿad Khalīl] is a journey to Moscow of the 80’s through the eyes of an Egyptian, a monologue of memory, a life story and warm conversation of two with the hum of a hard-working ventilator in the back.
Dr. Asʿad speaks about his anti-Israeli activities...
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 2021
Why do we often talk about Copts and the 1952 Revolution? Was the revolution at that time against the Copts as a religious sect, as if we still lived in the Ottoman confessional system? Was the revolution against the interests of the feudal and capitalist class of the Copts alone? Do we measure...
Date of source: Friday, July 9, 2021
After a life filled with significant events and achievements that preserved her name in Egypt’s history and the Arab world, Jīhān al-Sādāt, wife of the late Egyptian President Anwar al-Sādāt, has died at the age of 88.
Date of source: Friday, July 9, 2021
On July 9, Jīhān al-Sadāt, wife of the late Egyptian President Muḥammad Anwar al-Sadāt, passed away at the age of 88 after a long struggle with illness.
The Egyptian Presidency mourned her death with profound grief and sorrow. The Presidency pointed out that she was a role model for Egyptian women...
Date of source: Thursday, April 15, 2021
On Thursday morning, the Egyptian leftist patriot Albert Arie died at the age of 91. He is the oldest Egyptian Jew who stayed in Cairo and refused to leave. He has always been known as a vivid memory of the Egyptian leftist movement, and the development of Egypt’s artistic and literary history.
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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.