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Date of source: Saturday, June 27, 2009
Shaykh Jamāl Qutb calls for attaching a private Coptic-administered school to Azhar and the reactions of Copts.
Date of source: Sunday, January 25, 2009
The minister of education has announced that the 14 year old Christian twins Andrew and Mario do not have to sit an Islamic education exam.
Date of source: Thursday, May 22, 2008
In 2002 the Ministry of Education introduced the subject ’ethics and values’ into the curriculum, however in recent years it have received substantial criticism and now seems to be on the way out.
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: Monday, February 19, 2007
The incident of the exclusion of a Christian reader from her job reflects the excess of some officials within the Egyptian administrative system that aim to exclude Christian citizens from the top ranking positions.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 7, 2007
The article talks about the discrimination on the basis of religion that occurred in the Faculty of Specific Education at ‘Ayn Shams University. The minister of education is paying close attention to the case of excluding a Christian assistant professor, Ghādah ‘Ātif, from the academic schedule two...
Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2006
An interview with Egyptian Minister of Education Dr.
Yusrī al-Jamal, who
discusses the problems in Egyptian education and the measures being taken to
improve it.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 18, 2006
The vegetables market established on
the sidewalk of the Press Syndicate prevented, the day before yesterday, the Minister of Education Dr. Yusrī
al-Jamal from attending a celebration held for praising the journalist’s outstanding students sons.
Date of source: Friday, October 13, 2006
The review takes up the issue of the niqāb as Jack Straw, Leader of the House of Commons, called on Muslim women in Britain to take off their veils in workplaces, while in Egypt, the President of Hilwān University made a decision to prohibit all niqāb-wearing students from entering the...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 24, 1997
Safinaz Kazem writes about her experience of what she sees as persecution, as a
result of her opposition to
President Sadat’s signing the Camp David Accords, and states that persecution is for
all Egyptians, not just
Copts.
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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.