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Date of source: Monday, May 23, 2011
Major General Mansūr 'Isawī, Minister of Interior Affairs, said that the unified law on building houses of worship will be issued in days to put an end to handing out licenses and building churches in Egypt.
Local councils in Egypt will be responsible for issuing permits for churches and mosques....
Date of source: Friday, May 13, 2011
The government announced it would prepare a law within a month to ease restrictions on building churches, while banning protests in front of places of worship, after attacks on Cairo churches.
The government is also moving to reopen churches closed under President Mubarak. It would study the cases...
Date of source: Saturday, May 14, 2011
Veteran journalist Salāh 'Isá writes that every time sectarian incidents break out, a lot of talking emerges on a unified law regulating the construction of houses of worship, then after a while the law is being mothballed once again.
Until the last incidents of Imbābah when Egypt was teetering on...
Date of source: Thursday, May 12, 2011
Many women have staged a peaceful rally to denounce the latest deadly sectarian violence that occured in Imbābah.
The participants stressed the values of citizenship and tolerance and denounced the sectarian clashes.
The purpose of the rally, organized by the Cairo-based Egyptian Centre for Women's...
Date of source: Friday, April 1, 2011
Arab-West Report, April 1, 2011 Title: Interview with Ibrāhīm al-Huḍaybī (former member of the Muslim Brotherhood and political activist) about the current situation in Egypt
Authors: Drs. Cornelis Hulsman, Arndt Emmerich and Judit Kuschnitzki
Introduction of Ibrāhīm al-Huḍaybī:
I am Ibrāhīm al-...
Date of source: Monday, March 28, 2011
Arab-West Report, March 28, 2011 Title: Interview with Mr. Sharīf ‘Ismat ‘Abd al-Majīd (Founder of the “Hatef Islami”) about the current situation in Egypt Authors: Drs. Cornelis Hulsman, Arndt Emmerich and Judit Kuschnitzki
Introduction of Mr. Sharīf ‘Ismat ‘Abd al-Majīd:
In 2000 I left the hotel...
Date of source: Monday, August 30, 2010
The parliament elections witness a struggle between the famous candidates.
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 2010
Pope Shenouda accepts all the items of the status law project for non-Muslims and a sectarian argument about adoption.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 10, 2010
A conference entitled, "Christian marriage in relation to civil legislation and ecclesiastic legislation," refuses the personal status law declared by the Ministry of Justice and calls for the state's help to give them the right to marry.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 10, 2010
A legal researcher presents a research paper which presents 30 legal mistakes in the Unifed Law on Personal Status.
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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.