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Date of source: Sunday, February 12, 2012
Dr. ‘Abd al-Mun‘im Abū al-Futūh is a frontrunning candidate in the Egyptian presidential elections. He has been a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Guidance Council for twenty-five years, but now finds himself officially outside the organization as a result of his desire to run for the presidency...
Date of source: Sunday, January 8, 2012
AWR obtained the original text of the Azhar documents for Freedom. Please find it below.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Ashraf Edward, a lawyer representing the Virgin Mary Church in the Ain Shams neighbourhood of Cairo, said the church's legal committee will present a request to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the interior minister and the cabinet that the church be reopened. The church is one of many that...
Date of source: Saturday, April 23, 2011
The outrage that protestors in Qena have expressed regarding 'Imād Mikhael, the appointed governor of Qena, is not because he is Christian [Sectarian], but because the previous governor was a Christian who had negative religious reflections on their spiritual lives [tribal].
For example, the...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Why has the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces resorted to salafī shaykhs in reconciliation drives between Copts and Muslims, following sectarian clashes against a background of social disputes?
The Council was rather expected to seek the assistance of the Azhar, which advocates moderate Islam as...
Date of source: Sunday, April 10, 2011
Last Tuesday, a Muslim mob a few thousand strong gathered in front of Mar-Yuhanna (Saint John) church in al-Minya village of al-Qamādīr in Samallūt, some 240km south of Cairo, demanding that the church should be closed. They attacked the church and the Copts’ houses with stones and set on fire...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Bishop Aghabius of Dayr Mawās comments on the location of Kāmīliyah Shihātah, the wife of the priest Tidawous.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 3, 2010
The American Administration welcomes spreading Sufi Islam throughout its lands and supports Sufi Muslims.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 29, 2011
How can the perceived threat of Islamists be blunted? They should be encouraged to integrate themselves.
At the same time they should be convinced of the need to espouse the principles of citizenship and equal rights for all – rules already enshrined in Islam.
Meanwhile parties should not be...
Date of source: Monday, March 28, 2011
Edward Cody, writer in the Washington Post, writes that the biggest winners of the [January] 25 revolution are the Salafists. He described them as Islamic fundamentalists who would like to see the strictest form of Islam applied to all of Egypt and across the Middle East.
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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.