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Date of source: Saturday, June 28, 2025
Elections for the Supreme Council of Sufi Orders were concluded on Saturday (June 28), resulting in the election of 10 new members from 70 Sufi orders from a pool of 14 candidates vying for the council’s membership.
Date of source: Monday, August 25, 2025
The Ministries of Endowments [awqāf] and Education have announced a project to set up educational nurseries within mosques. The project will be implemented this summer as a pilot in the southern Egyptian governorate of Qinā. Each village or neighborhood will include one nursery within a mosque.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 5, 2025
A delegation of Copts and the endowments [awqāf] authorities cast their votes in the elections of the Senate, the upper house of Egypt’s parliament, on Tuesday (August 5).
Date of source: Wednesday, July 23, 2025
In a new move to enhance cooperation among ministries, Minister of Endowments [awqāf] Dr. Usāma al-Azharī and Minister of Education & Technical Education Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Laṭīf signed a protocol to launch educational nurseries inside mosques for children before the age of compulsory education.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 27, 2025
The community of monks at the Saint Catherine Monastery in Sinai is experiencing one of the most severe crises of recent decades after Archbishop of Sinai Metropolitan Damyānūs today expelled a group of rebellious monks from the monastery compound, wielding control over the monks’ synod along with...
Date of source: Friday, July 18, 2025
This paper analyzes three episodes taken from series produced for the month of Ramaḍān in Egypt in the years 2024 and 2025. Every year during Ramaḍān, a variety of programs are broadcast on national television that explain passages taken from the Qurʾān, explore Islamic beliefs, and offer guidance...
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.