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Date of source: Monday, July 3, 2006
Dr. Ikrām Lam‘ī states the reasons why he thinks Egypt is heading
towards a religion-based country.
Date of source: Friday, June 30, 2006
Dr.
Wasīm al-Siysī disputes the claim that states ruled by religion are more successful
than those ruled
by positivist man-made laws, using the ancient Egyptian state and the modern state of
Israel as cases in point.
Date of source: Saturday, June 3, 2006 to Friday, June 9, 2006
The author discusses an
Egyptian
court ruling granting divorce to a number of Christians who, in accordance with the Christian precepts,
can
not remarry, proposing unified civil laws applied to both Muslims and Christians in personal status affairs.
Date of source: Friday, May 26, 2006
The Egyptian Ministry of Trade and Industry has rejected the use of religious slogans as
trade
marks, but the company Mecca Cola is filing a lawsuit to register its trademark in Egypt
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2006
The author
criticizes statements made by intellectual Dr. Silīm al-
‘Awā, in which he emphasizes that
Copts are dependent on foreign support in solving their
problems and that Copts’ conditions are very much
better than those of Muslims.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
The Egyptian minister of interior, Major General Habīb al- ‘Ādlī, has submitted a memorandum to the Administrative Judicial Court, calling for the dismissal of the lawsuits filed by 150 Copts, who embraced Islam and afterwards decided to convert back to Christianity, and accusing the converts of...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Changing the statute will not help in
political
reform because it contains many contradictions, the author argues, and modifications to the statute aim
only
at the interest of the president not the political parties.
Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2006
A lot of arguments have been made concerning possible amendments to the Egyptian constitution. Any attempt to modify this constitution must abolish article no. 2, according to ‘Ādil Jundī, which faces much criticism from Copts and others.
Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2006
An article about the Muslim Brotherhood’s intent to establish a state that has a religious, and not civil nature, and the attitude of the Muslim Brotherhood towards the Copts.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 20, 2005
The author cannot understand how debating an article of the constitution should jeopardize people’s faiths and beliefs. However, some groups insist that questioning the second article of the constitution would lead to a ‘blood bath’ 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.