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Date of source: 8 Jan 2020
The main amendment to the law introduces a broader definition of the "funds" of terrorist individuals and entities that can be frozen under the law. According to the amendment, the definition of "funds" shall include all financial assets and economic resources such as oil, other natural resources,...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 15 Jan 2020
Speaking on the matter, the spokesperson for the Interior Ministry stated that Qāsim was subjected to an official and fair trial in front of a normal judge and was included amongst others accused. The ruling concluded with the release of those who proved their innocence and the conviction of those...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 17 Jan 2020
On January 13th of this year, Muṣṭafā Qāsim, who possessed duel American and Egyptian citizenship, died in Ṭura Līmān Prison after being sentenced to 15 years in prison for the incident at Rābaʿa al-ʿAdawiyya Square in August of 2013. Qāsim had been suffering from diabetes, and his health had...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 19 Jan 2020
The Laqqān prayer in Christianity means “bathing” and is where the baptism of Christ is remembered. Pope Tawāḍrūs II, pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, said that the word “al-Laqqān” is Greek for the container that the water used for bathing is placed in. There is a model...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 21 Jan 2020
An official from the Bible Society said that it will have bibles in Arabic and English there as well as a bunch of new publications for children and young people.
The Evangelical Culture Publishing House will have over 300 publications available for sale at the fair.
Bishop Bākhūm, official...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 6 Jan 2020
According to the Council, the song’s lyrics contain expressions that fall under the crime of insulting and defamation on social media based on the Anti-Cyber and Information Technology Crimes law according to the sentence 175 / 2018 of the Egyptian Panel Code. This step came in light of the Council...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 27 Jan 2020
Following Dr. Jābir Naṣār’s (Former president of Cairo University) decision to ban the niqāb in April 2015, a lawyer raised four cases against the ban in the Administrative Court on behalf of 80 female researchers who work at Cairo University and wear the niqāb. Despite the lawyer’s demands to...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 4 Jan 2020
The Supreme Court asked the representative of Pope Tawāḍrūs II to provide documents to the court that specify the date of the church’s creation, the church’s registration, an official overview from the Coptic endowments and a summary of the steps that were taken to register it in the Egyptian...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 27 Jan 2020
During a phone-in programme al-Qāḍī said that the Ministry of Awqāf respects all judicial decisions. He added that the Dār al-Iftāʾ is better suited to deal with issues related to the niqāb.
al-Qāḍī emphasised the importance to continuously renew the religious discourse in order to keep up with the...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 29 Jan 2020
Ziyāda continued by saying that the niqāb prevents women from communicating and fulfilling the tasks their jobs require them to do. She added that according to Salafists the niqāb is intended to isolate women and stop them from attracting men.
The director of the Egyptian Liberal Democracy...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 11 Feb 2020
Religious Zionists claim that God promised them the land of the current State of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. But claiming that God is on your side in a modern political conflict is highly problematic.
Yet this belief is not only found among religious Zionists but also among...
Date of source: 5 Feb 2020
The text in Deuteronomy 22:20-21 is a horrible one by today's standards. The girl in question has to prove in fact her “innocence”, but even then: the death penalty by stoning is fully out of proportion. This is not the only commandment in the Old Testament that means nothing to us. There are quite...
Date of source: 29 Jan 2020
In a joint press conference Trump's plan, announced in the presence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, came to confirm what has long been known, that the "Peace Plan" favored Israeli priorities, and aimed at the liquidation of the Palestinian cause.
On Twitter, President Trump published...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 29 Jan 2020
The movement added that the current Egyptian state is fighting a fierce war and launching campaigns of arrest, political repression and abuse against the Islamists, and against all opponents of every shape and color. According to the movement, preservation of the quality of university education and...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 31 Jan 2020
Abū al-ʿIlā gave a detailed explanation on the restoration project which has been carried out in two phases, and pointed out that all the renovations will raise the efficiency of its tourism services to welcome visitors
For his part, Dr. Jamāl Muṣṭafā, head of the Jewish, Coptic, and Islamic...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 14 Jan 2020
In April of 2019, the Damanhūr Criminal Court sentenced Wā’il Saʿd Tawāḍrūs (formerly known as Ashʿiyāʾ al-Maqārī), and Raymond Rasmī Manṣūr (Faltāʾūs al-Maqārī) to death for murdering Bishop Epīphaniyyūs. The monks’ defense team presented an appeal to the cassation court last May. In the...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 17 Jan 2020
ʿAwaḍ was arrested and admitted in detail what happened to the prosecution in al-Marj. The prosecution ordered him to be detained for 4 days under pending investigation for Case Number 824 of 2020 Misdemeanor of al-Marj.
It’s worth mentioning that the prosecution made a mistake in charging and...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 11 Feb 2020
Introduction by Arab-West Report.
We are grateful for Maya Williamson’s translation of this booklet about Oz Ve-Shalom (Actuele Onderwerpen (AO), April 9, 1982). The photos accompanying the Dutch publication have not been included in this translation.
After completing this text, I completed my MA...
Reviewed by Maya Williamson
Translator Maya Williamson
Date of source: 6 Feb 2020
When the Maadi Messenger asked me to write about intercultural friendships, I thought it would be best to write about my own experiences. I grew up in a traditional family in a traditional, homogeneous Dutch community. Nowadays, however, I have friends of all nationalities, and political and...
Date of source: 5 Feb 2020
Translation of the text in Trouw, December 6, 2019 with a response by Prof. Dr. P.B. Dirksen.
Eildert Mulder
In de schaduw van de minaret.
In The Shadow of the Minaret: Isrāʾ Gharīb Posted a Video on Instagram and Died.
What makes the young Palestinian woman Isrāʾ Gharīb unique? Not that in the...
Reviewed by Maya Williamson
Translator Maya Williamson
Date of source: 4 Feb 2020
Dear Leslie
A month ago, I have met your parents for the first time. After having read so many of their e-mails and letters during my internship in Cairo, it was nice to finally see them in person. We met in a bar close to the Grand Market and I was quite excited. We drank two drinks together and...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 16 Jan 2020
The sister of the Copt, who said he was saved from death by divine intervention, revealed the details of the incident saying “My brother is called Rafīq Karam, he is 56 years old, and he lives in al-Zaytūn district, but he owns the workshop for cars on al-Marj district. At 8 p.m. my brother was...
Reviewed by Rupert Walker
Translator Rupert Walker
Date of source: 1 Feb 2020
Egyptian businessman Mounir Ghabbour spends millions to publicize the Holy Family’s flight to Egypt.
Photo Michael Girgis.
Most people associate Egypt with pyramids, pharaohs, and sun. Few remember that Jesus lived in Egypt — as a refugee. Businessman Mounir Ghabbour, a Coptic Christian, is trying...
Reviewed by Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Translator Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Date of source: 8 Jan 2020
Last month, a mini summit was held in Kuala Lumpur and attended by the leaders of 4 nations (Malaysia, Qatar, Iran, and Turkey) in addition to a host of intellectuals and scholars affiliated with Islamist organizations, especially the Muslim Brotherhood, with the stated goal to “look for a new...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 11 Jan 2020
A number of Coptic pages on social media reported that the TV programme, “Mārmurqus”, which is broadcast every Thursday on the official TV channel of the Coptic Church has been stopped. These pages saw Pope Tawāḍrūs II responsible for this step and demanded the Coptic Church to broadcast the show...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 1 Jan 2020
70% of Christmas fatwas were issued by unofficial public figures. 99% of fatwas issued by Salafists consider wishing Christians a Merry Christmas as forbidden. Fatwas are related to forbidding certain actions and not Christians in particular.
The article, presents the most notable Christmas...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 12 Jan 2020
Christianity in Egypt became less prominent after the Islamic conquest of Egypt. Sunni Islam now forms the majority in Egypt. Coptic Christians live in all parts of the country and are present in all social classes. However, despite Copts being the original inhabitants of Egypt their representation...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 1 Jan 2020
The reasons are different. Among them are; the ignorance of the nature of Christianity, and the Christian religious life or practices. Unlike Islamic beliefs, which Christians are familiar with through their studies of the Arabic language in schools, and also through official television channels...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 1 Jan 2020
In the past years Egypt witnessed several attacks on churches during the Christmas celebrations. The bloodiest of these occurred in October 2016 when 29 people were killed and tens were wounded in an attack on a Coptic Orthodox church in al-ʿAbāssiyyah (East Cairo).
According to church statistics...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 11 Jan 2020
On the first day Pope Tawāḍrūs II will open Saint George school, affiliated to the diocese of Sūhāj and among the series of Egypt Eyes “ʿUyūn Miṣr” schools. He is expected to hold a general meeting with the priests of Sūhāg in the Coptic diocese and hold Mass.
After the Mass, Pope Tawāḍrūs II will...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 4 Jan 2020
The committee is chaired by the head of the Cabinet of Ministers and includes the membership of 6 ministers (Defense and Military Production, Housing, Utilities, and Urban Communities, Local Development, Legal Affairs and Parliament, Justice, and Antiquities) in addition to a representative from a...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 8 Jan 2020
In the past few days, activists on social media have been spreading the word about what happened, and many rejected the violence promoted by the song, considering it to be an example of the kind of art that contributes to similar incidents.
In regards to the two girls from al-Manṣūrah, one of them...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 5 Jan 2020
The court stated that after reviewing the papers, the facts of the case concluded that the plaintiff, Hudā Naṣr Allāh, lawyer for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, filed a lawsuit against the unequal distribution of inheritance, demanding the annulment of the private certification of the...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 8 Jan 2020
The Libyan army confirmed that Tunisian airports are used to set up new ISIS military bases in Libya. For example, terrorist groups landed at the Djerba airport in Tunisia and were subsequently moved to Libya.
Turkey has already sent 1000 mercenaries to Libya and a further 1700 are currently...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 3 Jan 2020
The American ministry of defence (Pentagon) announced on January 3 that the president himself gave the orders for this military operation which means that Washington bears official responsibility for the consequences of this move.
A first response came from the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 3 Jan 2020
On Twitter, some commentators asked why al-Ṣadr’s militias did not protect the peaceful demonstrations in Iraq when the latter were targeted by order of Soleimani. Others pointed out that during the protests, al-Ṣadr called for Iran to leave Iraq but in regards to decisive issues he calls for a...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 6 Jan 2020
It was said that no official permission existed for the building to hold the prayer inside of it. This however contradicts Article 8 of the Law on Building Churches (Number 80) which states that religious rituals may be practised even without official permission.
The Initiative said that three...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 7 Jan 2020
The Washington Post wrote that al-Sīsī attended the Christmas ceremony as usual.
The newspaper also stated that al-Sīsī praised the links between Christians and Muslim in Egypt and commended the Egyptian people’s determination not to be drawn into sectarian conflicts.
In addition, the newspaper...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 3 Jan 2020
Rev. Dr. Andriyya Zakī started by discussing the activities of the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS) in Egypt. The Protestant Church is considered one of the largest organisations of civil society in Egypt as it offers services to over three million Egyptians. Since its...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 4 Jan 2020
The Egyptian security apparatus’s fears have increased due to events that the Middle East is currently going through. Therefore, security has increased around churches, especially the big ones as well as vital facilities. The security plans included providing rapid response forces to intervene,...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
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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.