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Date of source: Friday, December 31, 1999
Al-Koshh, is the village that excited the world in August 1998, and had a place in all news broadcasts - in the morning and the evening, we heard its news! Al-Koshh - the famous Upper Egypt village - how did it live Ramadan this year? Especially since 75% of its inhabitants are Copts and 25%...
Date of source: Saturday, December 4, 1999
A new article about the Koshh issue. The article places the Koshh incident in the context of discrimination or even persecution of Christians in Egypt and quotes for this Hafez Abu Seada, the secretary-general of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights.
Date of source: Sunday, August 22, 1999
The discussion at the press conference of the New York Council of Churches on June 28 [transcript presented in last week’s RNSAW] was mainly with members of the American Coptic Union. Before the press conference Drs. Cornelis Hulsman interviewed Rafique Iscander, chairman and founder of the...
Date of source: Thursday, August 19, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Ever since the case first broke the news last fall, the response from the government has been uniform: No one was tortured at Al Koshh. So it wasn’t much of a surprise when, after a brief investigation that didn’t even involve the questioning of witnesses, prosecutors declined to bring charges...
Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 1999 to Wednesday, June 16, 1999
The author describes a visit to pharaonic, Christian and Islamic sites in the governorates of Assiut and Sohag.
Date of source: Thursday, June 3, 1999 to Wednesday, June 9, 1999
Sheikh Abdul Rahim El-Semeen from the Al-Azhar, and Bishop Bakhoum, both from Sohag declared their support for president Mubarak.
Date of source: Monday, February 22, 1999 to Sunday, February 28, 1999
The article is an attack on the Coptic Orthodox refusal to accept the baptism of the Coptic Catholic and Coptic Evangelical churches in Egypt. However, claims are made that Orthodox priests say are factually not true. Some Orthodox priests were consulted and their comments are found in the...
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The article deals with what went wrong in reporting about the issue of el-Koshh. Many Egyptians, and definitely the Egyptian authorities, would like nothing more then to forget the issue of el-Koshh but will it be forgotten?
Date of source: Thursday, December 31, 1998
The South Cairo Court will give its verdict in the lawsuit brought by 100 Copts against the Sunday Telegraph and Christina Lamb, a reporter for the same paper.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 30, 1998
Bishop Wissa refused to speak to el-Shabab and thus the author went to see bishop Bakhoum of Sohag who says people in the village exaggerated stories and bishop Wissa was hot tempered and lacked wisdom in dealing with this issue. Bishop Bakhoum also says Bishop Wissa asked the two witnesses to...
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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.