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Date of source: Monday, May 18, 2026
The Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, received Dr. Rev. Andrea Zakī, head of the Evangelical community in Egypt, and a high-level delegation of leaders of the Evangelical Community, congratulating him on the approaching ʿEīd al-Aḍḥā.
Date of source: Sunday, May 24, 2026
Based on participant observation and interviews with two bawwābīn in al-Munīra neighborhood of Cairo, this report examines the position of doormen in contemporary urban Egypt. By following the experiences of bawwābīn Wā’il and ʿAīd, the paper shows how the boundaries between work and private life...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Al-Azhar al-Sharīf vehemently condemns the terrorist attack that was carried out by two armed extremists incited by hate speech against Islam. The gunmen targeted the Islamic Center in San Diego, California and killed three worshippers at the mosque as well as the mosque’s guard. This brutal attack...
Date of source: Monday, May 11, 2026
The Prime Minister of Sudan, Dr. Kāmil Idrīs, met with Pope Leo XIV on Monday to discuss efforts to strengthen peace, coexistence, and humanitarian dialogue.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 20, 2026
The Personal Status Law for Christians has sparked controversy within legal and ecclesiastical circles, prompting calls for a broad societal dialogue before its final approval in parliament.
Human rights researcher and lawyer Hudā Naṣrallah said the new law includes several positive aspects, most...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 24, 2025
The Christian student started wearing the ḥijāb in the morning for school and also in the evening for her lessons.
"I just kept wearing it throughout the day, since I had the same teachers and classmates," she explained, becoming so covered that "no one knew I was Christian anymore."
Maryam did not...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 19, 2026
The controversial new personal status draft law for Christians in Egypt has gained official agreement within the six major churches that took part in its drafting, with statements asserting that "it could not have been better."
However, a review of previous church and academic discussions revealed...
Date of source: Friday, May 22, 2026
Rev. Dr. Yazīd Saʿīd is senior lecturer at Liverpool Hope University in the United Kingdom. Born into a Palestinian family in Galilee, he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BA) and Cambridge University (BA, MPhil, PhD). An Anglican priest, Dr. Saʿīd is the author of Ghazālī’s Politics...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 5, 2026
MP Maḥmūd Sāmī, a member of the House of Representatives, confirmed that the new Personal Status Law submitted by the government to the Parliament has not been discussed yet to allow sufficient opportunity to carefully study its provisions to limit societal controversy.
Date of source: Friday, May 1, 2026
Coptic Orthodox Bishop Būlā of Ṭanṭā and its dependencies revealed that men and women will be equal in inheritance in accordance with the new draft Personal Status Law for Christians, which is in agreement with the Holy Bible.
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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.