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Date of source: Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Pope Tawāḍrūs II honored Major General Ḥussām Khiḍr, head of the Public Treasury Authority and Mint, Dr. Sharīf Ḥāzim, advisor to the Finance Minister for Engineering, and several engineers and designers at the treasury, thanking them for their work to issue commemorative coins featuring the Coptic...
Date of source: Sunday, March 14, 2021
The National Council for Women (NCW) launched a campaign whilst celebrating Women’s Day, under the title “Entrepreneurship for Rural Women”, in cooperation with the World Food Program, from March 14th to 20th, in nine governorates. The nine governorates are Aswān, Luxor, Qinā, Suhāj, Asyūṭ, al-...
Date of source: Thursday, March 4, 2021
The Egyptian Ministry of Planning and Economic Development issued a report on the Citizen Investment Plan for the current year in the governorates of Upper Egypt, giving priority to rural areas most in need in order to narrow development gaps and reduce migration flow to urban areas.
Date of source: Friday, February 12, 2021
As part of the Diakonia Development Office's continued pursuit for human development in various respects, in affiliation with the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate, the Sudanese Service Initiative continues to meet its objectives. Such objectives include the integration of Sudanese brothers of different...
Date of source: Friday, February 12, 2021
Recent official data has revealed a decline in poverty rates in Egypt, for the first time in 22 years.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Since President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī rose to power in 2014, the Egyptian government has built over 600 bridges and roughly 21 new axes for over 85 billion EGP (5.3 billion American dollars). The government is also planning to build a thousand overpasses costing 130 billion EGP (roughly 8 billion...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 9, 2021
A project to build a two-kilometer bridge on al-Ahrām Street in Heliopolis [Miṣr al-Jadīda] next to the historic Basilica of the Holy Virgin [kanīsat al-Bāzīlīk] has caused uproar. The people living in the region are rejecting the project due to the negative effects on the region’s distinct...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 13, 2021
The last three years have seen a deterioration in relations between Egypt and Qatar ever since Cairo, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, and Manama cut diplomatic, trade, and economic ties with Doha and closed the borders with it.
Date of source: Thursday, November 5, 2020
On Friday, Dr. Khālid al-ʿAnānī, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, held the grand opening of the Shālī Fortress and Aghūrmī Mosque in Siwa Oasis [Wāḥat Sīwa] in Maṭrūḥ governorate, after finishing renovations as part of the project to revive the historic village of Shālī.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Dr. Rāniyyā al-Mashāṭ, Minister of International Cooperation, sought an economic cooperation strategy between Egypt and the United States for the upcoming five-year period (2021-2025) in a virtual meeting with Leslie Reed, Mission Director of the USAID delegation.
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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.