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Date of source: Monday, August 7, 2017
Editor AWR: This view is expressed by Rekaya el-Hafi [Ruqayya al-Hāfī], a Tunisian humanitarian activist who was born and raised in a Muslim family but represents the Eglise Reformé de Tunis in its relation between the Tunisian government and civil society. Tunisia’s constitution advocates freedom...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 14, 2017
As a Muslim, I have been deeply concerned about relations between Christians and Muslims in Egypt in light of the recent attacks against the Coptic community. In fact, in the wake of the Minya bus attack and the Palm Sunday church bombings, I felt that the Muslim community in Egypt wasn’t vocal...
Date of source: Thursday, June 1, 2017
Tensions are high in Egypt following the brutal attack on Christians in Minya [Minyā] on May 27, leaving 29 Christians, among them ten children, dead and 25 others wounded. Father Yo’annis [Yū'annis] of Qufada [Qufādā] told us that most of the Christians came from the dioceses of Maghagha [...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 31, 2017
I just returned from a visit to the UK where I attended a church service in Startfort, London. Stratfort is an area with a large percentage of Muslims living in it. They prayed for the victims of the Manchester bombing while simultaneously speaking with great love about their Muslim neighbours....
Date of source: Thursday, May 25, 2017
Ramadan 2017 starts Friday evening May 26 and is expected to end on June 24. We are now receiving wishes from friends for a blessed Ramadan but it is too simple to wish blessings while only days earlier, May 22, the 22 year-old Salman Abedi [Salmān ʿĀbidī] blew himself up just after an Ariana...
Date of source: Thursday, March 9, 2017
The Alexandria Criminal Court ruled to sentence ʿĀdil Abū al-Nūr Sulaymān",
also known as ”ʿĀdil ʿAsaliyya” to death for slaughtering the Coptic citizen Lamʿ ī Yūsuf in Alexandria.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Hānī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the official documentarian of New Suez Canal, announced that he will begin to document the information related to the housing of Coptic families moving from al-ʿArīsh to al-Ismāʿīlīya after being targeted by terrorists.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Jamāl Fahmī, a member of the National Council for Human Rights, said that the Egyptian constitution contains texts and articles recognizing freedom of belief, thought and expression. "But they remained merely texts."
Date of source: Sunday, April 24, 2016
Human rights activist and researcher Mīnā Thābit, lashed out at the Egyptian regime in an opinion article published by Mada Masr. Thābit criticized the current status of human rights and personal freedoms in Egypt, especially following the ouster of the former president Muḥammad Mursī and the...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 26, 2016
MP Aḥmad Badawī, Undersecretary of the Communications and Information Technology Committee of the House of Representatives, said on April 24, 2016 that the committee supports the freedom of opinion and expression and the dissemination of information.
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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.