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Date of source: 30 Mar 2020
The ministry confirmed to extend its suspension of museums and archeological sites to visitors in addition to restaurants, nightclubs, sport clubs, and swimming pools found at hotels, and all activities, ceremonies, and social occasions will continue to be suspended inside hotels until April 15th...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 30 Mar 2020
The Diocese of Shubrā al-Khayma was the first to resume pastoral activities through group chats on WhatsApp and social media. Bishop Murqus, bishop of the diocese, started group chats on WhatsApp to study the bible and discuss different topics and spiritual concepts.
Pope Tawāḍrūs II is working...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 17 Mar 2020
These steps don’t include all prisoners such as ones sentenced for threatening security, stability, and public peace. Following that, completing this step calls for safeguards and measures that don’t cause trouble for security. In support of that, politicians believe that releasing those detained...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 18 Mar 2020
According to al-Bawāba News, he said that there are some people who are trying to exploit this crisis to show a different image of God and present him as frightening as if God is taking revenge on humanity. He pointed out that this is a false image.
He followed, saying that God is Lord of the...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 18 Mar 2020
Additionally, the Egyptian Dār al-Iftāʾ has issued a new fatwa [fatwā] related to the pandemic. It confirms that it is permissible to not wash [ghusl] the deceased who were sick with any infectious pandemic diseases such as Coronavirus if the washing might harm people and cause further...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 18 Mar 2020
Dr. ʿAlī Jumaʿa, former Mufti of Egypt and current member of al-Azhar Council of Senior Scholars, said that Prophet Muḥammad had mentioned a number of facts about the Hour of the Resurrection. On his Facebook page, he explained that the senior scholars [al-ʿUlamāʾ] have divided the signs of the...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 21 Mar 2020
Father Būlus said during a phone call with media personality ʿAmrū Adīb, host of the MBC Egypt program “The Story” [al- Ḥikāya] that the Standing Council of the Holy Synod was dispatched by Pope Tawāḍrūs II to deal with the emergency. He added saying that the council has a serious challenge in...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 30 Mar 2020
The Minister of Endowments, Dr. Muḥammad Mukhtār Jumʿah, confirmed that all mosques and prayer rooms will continue to be closed to achieve the goals and objectives of the Sharīʿah which include preserving and protecting human life.
The Ministry emphasised again that all employees have to follow the...
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Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 31 Mar 2020
According to the author the al-Sīsī regime currently commits mass murder that is as cruel as letting captured soldiers die or prisoners suffocate in a prison. In Egypt tens of thousands are serving their prison sentences right now and an equal number is imprisoned without a trial in what is called...
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Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 31 Mar 2020
His statements received mixed responses with some accusing him of not caring about the lives of his workers while protecting himself and his family from the disease by staying at home. Others pointed out that his views represent a capitalist economic system that only seeks to maximise profit....
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Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 12 Mar 2020
The story began two days ago when Minister of al-Awqāf Muḥammad Mukhtār Jumaʿah stated that “The Muslim Brotherhood has become unhinged. Its criminal behavior has gone beyond human comprehension. It has become a danger that threatens the entire world. We are calling on the entire world to get to...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Minister of Endowments: Cancelation of any Celebrations Commemorating al-Isrā’ and al-Miʿrāj Journey
Date of source: 14 Mar 2020
He said the ministry is coordinating with the General Chiefdom of Sufi Orders and that they have agreed on the Friday sermon, which will focus on the hadith about al-Isrā’ and al-Miʿrāj journey, on March 20, 2020. Additionally, a seminar will be broadcasted live from Maspero and will be about the...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 10 Mar 2020
Egyptians started a campaign on social media trying to apologise to the Chinese tourist. In this context, the Chinese journalist Fayhaa Wang posted a video on her official Facebook page of an Egyptian woman apologizing to the Chinese tourist on behalf of the Egyptian people.
With the spread of the...
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Translator Marvin Mücke
Church Opens its Doors to Residents of ʿIzbat al-Zarāyib and the Government Helps to Face the Crisis
Date of source: 13 Mar 2020
The Cabinet also explained that the families of the dead were provided with what is necessary for the burials. The Government pointed out that relief services in May 15 suburb and the neighbouring authorities in Ḥelwān, Maʿādī and Basātīn will be in charge of providing support and compensation to...
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Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 18 Mar 2020
The SIS also observed tweets by a reporter working for the American newspaper “The New York Times“, that included the same incorrect and exaggerated numbers. According to the state authorities these reports and tweets clearly violate the internationally accepted rules of professional journalism and...
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Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 31 Mar 2020
Despite the official warnings and the continued spread of the Corona virus, a large number of worshippers had gathered after the Friday prayer outside the mosque yesterday, and more people are expected to come to the mosque as the anniversary of al-Sayyida Zaynab’s birthday [mawlid] comes closer....
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Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 21 Mar 2020
The Grand Shaykh of al-Azhar had previously stated that al-Azhar Mosque will temporarily suspend the Friday prayer to protect the worshippers. The call to prayer (al-ʾAzān) will continue with slight alteration calling on people to pray in their homes.
The Coptic Orthodox Church, as well, suspended...
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Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 28 Feb 2020
In light of the spread of Corona, many Copts ask if they can travel to Jerusalem to celebrate Easter next month. Some argued that it would be best to postpone travel plans to Jerusalem as the virus could spread easily in large human gatherings as will be the case during the events of the Holy...
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Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 16 Jan 2020
Prior to migrating, a refugee thinks that he is independent and free. However, after his arrival a refugee realises that he carries with himself a personal and societal history that shaped his personality. No matter how brutal the country a refugee fled from was, he realises the importance of the...
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Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 25 Feb 2020
Jamāl al-Dīn pointed out in a post on his Facebook page that the entry and exit roads leading to New Cairo will be closed starting from 9 o’clock in the morning in preparation of the funeral.
Egyptian legal experts confirmed that Mubārak does not deserve a military funeral despite him being a...
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Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 20 Jan 2020
The two governments have been opposed to each other since the military coup d’état in July 2013. The Turkish government refuses the current ruling regime in Egypt and hosts the Egyptian opposition. In addition, Turkey supports Egypt’s enemies in the region such as Qatar, opposition forces in Syria...
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Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 2 Feb 2020
This is the first time Pope Tawādrūs II draws upon a monk to help him with the work in his office. Previously the archpriests Rev. Fr. Anjīlūs Isḥaq and Rev. Fr. Ammūniyūs ʿĀdil had covered the tasks of the office.
Pope Tawādrūs II had promised not to draw upon bishops to work in his secretary as...
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Translator Marvin Mücke
International Women’s Day… An Occasion to Celebrate or Call for the Awakening of the Arab Conscience
Date of source: 8 Mar 2020
Despite the extreme difficulties that Arab women are suffering from in these wars, Arabs have yet to adopt principles and solutions that international laws, especially Resolution Number 1325 issued by the UN Security Council, include. This fact acts as a painful paradox since the Arab world is one...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 8 Jan 2020
The repetition of these incidents of harassment is pressing. In the interests of objectivity, civil society has made some efforts to call for harassers to be punished, for legislation to criminalize harassment, and to muster support for the cause of combating harassment. Some victims of violence...
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Translator Emma Scolding
Date of source: 6 May 2020
Henk was born on December 15, 1923, in a Reformed (Gereformeerde) family in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He was educated as chemical analyst and technological chemist. He found in 1948 employment with the Shell refinery in Curacao, an island in the Caribbean Sea, and retired in 1973 in the position...
Date of source: 16 Feb 2020
During the grand opening of the memorial and panorama of the story of the martyrs and their journey on the fifth anniversary of their deaths. The bishop added that the church erected statures of the martyrs that embody the scene of the massacre in remembrance of that day. The memorial is located...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 4 Mar 2020
Pope Tawāḍrūs II, pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, and Dr. ʿUthmān Shaʿlān, president of al-Zaqāzīq University, signed the general framework for the protocol. In addition, Dr. Isḥāq ʿAjbān, dean of the Institute of Coptic Studies, and Dr. Hānī Ḥalmī, dean of the Faculty of...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 5 Mar 2020
He was arrested in 1993 for participating in a murder that happened in Qinā governorate and was sentenced to 25 years in prison with hard labor. Despite the end of his sentence in September of 2018, he has yet to be released. His family added that he has remained in prison for more than two years...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 6 Mar 2020
After using inappropriate expressions in his post, some youth in the village set fire to three nests of agricultural lands for cattle that were owned by Copts. Security forces moved and surrounded the village to secure it completely. However, reasonable Muslims and Copts moved quickly and...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 12 Feb 2020
Political changes in Egypt for the past few years have posed a challenge to al-Azhar’s ability to respond to necessary changes for political reform. In this context, the appearance of the Grand Shaykh of al-Azhar, Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, raises questions about how to value his political role since the...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 18 Feb 2020
Bishop Aghāthūn is among the most prominent symbols of the extreme traditionalist schools of thought in the Coptic Church. He has persisted in confronting Pope Tawāḍrūs II’s reformist orientation specifically regarding the issue of relations between other Christian denominations and has continued...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 18 Feb 2020
Bishop Ermia [Irmiyā], General Bishop and Chairman of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center, confirmed that the training program comes as a part of periodic meetings and training programs organized by the “House of the Family” [Bayt al-ʿĀʾila] in order to strengthen the concept of real citizenship,...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 19 Feb 2020
The conference also had Pope Tawāḍrūs II participating in the conference via video conference calling as well as 9 lectures opposing violence against women.
The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church, which was held last January, had made a number of recommendations to establish a committee...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 29 Jan 2020
Egyptian Diplomatic sources revealed that Cairo actually welcomed a plan through direct funding from the Italian government to prepare police and African security forces to confront migration. This plan, which lasted a year and a half, was one of the unannounced ways of security cooperation...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 27 Feb 2020
Fr. Dāwūd, the secretary of Samālūṭ Archdiocese, said that was the first visit of British ambassador to Samālūṭ. The visit came in the context of seeing the monastery of the Virgin as one of the stations of the Holy Family's journey, where the ambassador visited the ancient church, and entered the...
Reviewed by Aḥmad Badr
Translator Aḥmad Badr
Date of source: 28 Apr 2020
On October 16, 2019, Henk Glimmerveen sent me an announcement regarding a documentary titled “The Valley of Salt,” to be broadcast on October 18 by the Evangelische Omroep (EO, Evangelical Broadcasting Company).
The announcement reads (in translation) “As the young Egyptian filmmaker Christophe...
Date of source: 7 Feb 2020
The Secretary-General of Dār al-Iftāʾ al-Miṣriyyah added, that there are statistics released today on the Global Fatwā Index (GIF), clarifying that there is a discourse that exists in Egypt and other countries from those who seek and spread extremism, and blindly follow several texts, some of which...
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Translator Aḥmad Badr
Date of source: 16 Feb 2020
According to al-Yawm al-Sābiʿ newspaper, Anṭūn said that the total Orthodox churches whose status has been legalized is approaching 70 churches in the last batch of 82 churches. Moreover the rate of legalizing churches reached 1500 churches and subsidiary buildings from all denominations.
Father...
Reviewed by Aḥmad Badr
Translator Aḥmad Badr
Date of source: 11 Jan 2020
The village of al-Karam, which is at the center of Abū Qurqāṣ, witnessed incidents of sectarian strife and attacks on a number of Coptic homes on May 20, 2016, following a rumor spread about an affair between a Muslim housewife and a married Coptic man.
Suʿād Thābit accused the ex-husband of the...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 24 Feb 2020
According to the internal procedures of the al-Azhar Council of Senior Scholars, the Shaykh of al-Azhar calls the Council to hold a meeting at least one month before the end of his tenure as Mufti of Egypt in order to process the nomination of the new mufti. The Council nominates three people from...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 27 Feb 2020
During the meeting, participants mentioned their concerns over the Patriarch of Jerusalem facing imminent danger of schism within the Orthodox Union. Delegations from every Orthodox Church in Jerusalem participated in the meeting with Patriarch Theophilos III [Thiyyūfīlūs], Patriarch of the Holy...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 26 Feb 2020
Despite what Dr. ʿIssām said about the civil state and the nature of the system of power in it, Islamists didn’t settle once and for all the issue of the system of rule or its means. And they didn’t decide on the issue of choosing a ruler or the conditions that must exist.
Dr. ʿIssām claimed that...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 4 Mar 2020
After the ruling, a judicial official said that the criminal court in Cairo on Monday sentenced ʿAshmāwī and 36 others to death. They were accused of committing 54 crimes including the assassinations of police officers, the attempted assassination of the former Minister of the Interior Muḥammad...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 24 Mar 2020
Jumaʿa added that whatever was said about the Coronavirus being mentioned in the Qur’an is nonsense. The state of emergency should apply to whoever speaks about the crisis from an unqualified perspective. The maximum penalty must be imposed on whoever uses social media to profit from crises.
The...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 24 Mar 2020
Dr. ʿAbbās Shūmān, former vice-president of al-Azhar, said that some people are used to tying disasters and crises with the Qur’an and its verses and interpreting them as pointing to the event, its time, and place. As happened with events of September 11th, they connect the Qur’an to whatever is...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 24 Mar 2020
He emphasized that all of these are acts pleasing to God [qurubāt] and necessities of which their doer is rewarded for and thus doubles his merit in the eyes of God [thawāb] whether they are among the commendable alms [al-ṣadaqāt al-mustaḥabba] or among the necessary alms [al-zakāt al-wājiba].
He...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Egyptian Prisons Refuse to Let in Disinfectants and Sanitizers despite the Pandemic and Overcrowding
Date of source: 22 Mar 2020
Niʿma Hishām, wife of detained lawyer Muḥammad al-Bāqir, wrote that she had gone to prison to bring precautionary, basic necessities and some food to her husband and was surprised by the long list of banned items including all basic necessities for personal hygiene and sanitation.
The number of...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 21 Mar 2020
The State Information Service had made a decision about the two newspapers last Tuesday after The Guardian published a report about the spread of the Coronavirus in Egypt. The report included a study by a Canadian researcher, estimating that Egypt has 19,310 cases of Coronavirus. The State...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 21 Mar 2020
After meeting this morning to discuss the latest developments regarding the spread of the novel Coronavirus Covid-19, the decision issued by the Standing Council for the Holy Synod under the authority of Pope Tawāḍrūs II came in the context of following the exceptional situation that the world is...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 17 Mar 2020
The issue of women’s rights is an issue that exists in grey areas in Islamist thought and needs the exertion of a lot of effort from the Islamists’ side for the sake of adapting to the vocabulary of legal thought, especially related to women’s rights and the different approaches (equality and...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 28 Jan 2020
Al-Khusht said that renewal of religious discourse is not possible, except by replacing old texts connected to the interpretations [tafsīr] of divine texts, jurisprudence (Fiqh), the origins of religion (Usūl al-Dīn) and sciences of the hadith. He emphasized that the current age is confronting...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 29 Jan 2020
At the conference, Egyptian President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī called for the renewal of Islamic thought. According to him, declining interest in this matter would leave the stage for imposters to hijack the minds of the youth, deceive them about the Sharīʿah, and transmit to these youth false...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 31 Jan 2020
Prayer was led by Bishop Munīr Ḥannā, bishop of the Episcopal Church in Egypt, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. In his sermon, Bishop Munīr said, “We are here today among the youth to pray for unity among churches. Our unity here is our united goal to preach the gospel, be disciples in the...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 1 Feb 2020
The Criminal Court in South Cairo, under Justice Muṣṭafā Maḥmūd ʿAbd al-Ghafār, had issued a decision to classify the incident under the Terror Statutes. This comes in addition to a petition advanced by the prosecutor that includes the results of investigations, confirming that the accused...
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Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 2 Feb 2020
The UN clarified that while there was a decrease of more than 13% from 2008 to 2014 in the number of female circumcisions in the age category of 15-17 years old (according to the 2014 Egypt Health and Demographic Survey), there should be accelerated efforts towards abandoning this practice as a...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 28 Feb 2020
Bishop Anthony [Anṭūniyyū], Bishop of Milan, has decided to halt and suspend the prayers in the Coptic churches indefinitely due to the spread of Coronavirus in Milan, at the request of the Italian government. The Church told the Copts to halt the prayers and masses until blockading the virus, and...
Reviewed by Aḥmad Badr
Translator Aḥmad Badr
Date of source: 28 Feb 2020
A customary reconciliation session was held in the village in the presence of the local leaders in Dishnā under the patronage of Aḥmad Mukhtār, a former member of the Egyptian parliament, to reach an agreement on the events that took place on New Year's Eve. Copts were prevented from praying in a...
Reviewed by Aḥmad Badr
Translator Aḥmad Badr
Date of source: 4 Mar 2020
The celebration includes Dr. Muṣṭafā al-Fiqī, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Nādiyya Zakhārī, Vice President for the National Council for Women, Dr. Jamāl Muṣṭafā, Head of the Islamic and Coptic Antiquities Department at the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, and representatives from...
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Translator Rupert Walker
Date of source: 26 Feb 2020
It is worth noting that they were all sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for being fugitives from justice, and they were recently arrested. The court requested the procedures of re-trial them in the presence of the terrorism circuit.
The Public Prosecution has accused the defendants of...
Reviewed by Aḥmad Badr
Translator Aḥmad Badr
Date of source: 6 Feb 2020
According to the Israeli writer, the most common ideas presented in the text books are that Israel seeks control of the entirety of Palestine and that Zionist gangs wreak havoc and spread animosity.
Yohanan emphasised that Palestinian educators teach their students that Israel was mainly created...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
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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.