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Date of source: 25 Aug 2024
President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī presided over the 35th conference of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, which began on August 25 and 26 at the Ministry of Awqāf (religious endowments) headquarters. Minister Osāma al-Azharī served as the conference chairman.
More than 60 significant regional...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 9 Aug 2024
Amidst festivities and popular celebrations glorifying the Virgin Mary, Copts began the Virgin Mary fast that is to run until August 22.
Karīm Kamāl, a researcher in Coptic affairs, told al-Waṭan that some Copts start fasting one week earlier, from the first day of August, in observance of the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 4 Jul 2024
Muḥammad al-Khusht, the president of Cairo University, announced the selection of Dr. Osāma al-Azharī as the Minister of Awqāf, or religious endowments. He stated that this move demonstrated the political leadership's faith in his effectiveness, wisdom, and breadth of expertise in managing...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 5 Jan 2022
A joint lecture on “developing religious awareness” was held in the Cairo University main hall. The speakers included the editor-in-chief of the al-Wafd newspaper, Wajdī Zayn al-Dīn; the university president, Muḥammad al-Khusht; and the former chairman of religious affairs at the Ministry of Awqāf...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 15 Jul 2024
Since the narrative of Gog and Magog is included in the Holy Qurʾān, it is undeniably a part of Islamic heritage. However, opinions on its meanings are varied.
Dr. Haytham al-Ḥāj ʿAlī, the former chairman of the General Egyptian Book Organization (GEBO), has recently published his interpretation of...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 7 Jul 2024
Dr. ʿAlī Jumʿa, a member of the Council of Senior Scholars at al-Azhar and a former grand muftī, congratulated Dr. Osāma al-Azharī on his appointment to the position of Minister of Awqāf (religious endowments).
Jumʿa made this statement at the Sufi Orders commemorating the Hijrī calendar new year....
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 10 Aug 2024
Al-Ḥabīb ʿAlī al-Jafrī, a well-known Muslim preacher, expressed his gratitude for having visited Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyeb, calling him the “top Imām of the Sunni Muslims.”
Al-Jafrī said that he was acquainted with Dr. Ṭayyeb when the imām served first as Egypt’s Grand Muftī, then...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 9 Aug 2024
Chairman of the General Secretariat for Fatwā Authorities Worldwide and Grand Muftī of Egypt, Dr. Shawqī ʿAllām, stated that President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī’s calls for renewing religious discourse were both correct and timely.
“The president has realized that through eliminating deviant...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 23 Jul 2024
In addition to being a researcher, novelist, and scenarist, Ibrāhīm ʿĪsa is a well-known figure in the media and press industry. He has chaired press establishments and hosted many TV talk shows.
His views on several religious matters, as well as his art productions, have sparked controversy in...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 5 Aug 2024
Once again, proposed changes to the personal status law are causing a rift in parliament, uproar in the media, and heated debates on social media.
The Iraqi constitution’s Article 41, which emphasizes the freedom of Iraqis to observe their personal status issues based on their religions, sects,...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 17 Aug 2024
The two test issues demonstrated that students and young graduates can produce excellent work if they are able to obtain the support of a good editor which Jenna was.
Each piece in the test issues contributed to intercultural and interreligious dialogue by educating our readership about elements of...
Date of source: 2 Aug 2024
One of the most renowned dignitaries, Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyeb, was the subject of a lecture from the Luxor Cultural Centre as part of their summer activities.
Hāla Amīn, the person in charge of the center’s children’s library, delivered the lecture.
After the lecture, the center...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 31 Jul 2024
Al-Azhar condemned the “heinous” crime committed by Israel in yet another act of aggression when they killed Palestinian leader Ismāʿīl Hanīya in the early hours of Wednesday, July 31.
Al-Azhar emphasized that the “martyr had spent his life defending the Palestinian issue, which is central to all...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 29 Jul 2024
Under the patronage of President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī, the 9th worldwide conference on fatwā of the Egyptian Dār al-Iftāʾ began on July 29–30 in Cairo. The conference is annually organized by the General Secretariat for Fatwa Authorities Worldwide.
An advisor to the Grand Muftī of Egypt, Dr....
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 30 Jul 2024
Under the theme “Fatwā and the Ethical Foundation in an Accelerating World,” the 9th international conference on fatwā of the Egyptian Dār al-Iftāʾ began in Cairo with the participation of representatives from over 100 countries.
The Islamic world, more than any other, is currently experiencing...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 30 Jul 2024
At the 9th International Fatwā Conference, researcher Ṭāhir Fārūq Zayd, who oversees the dialogue unit at the Egyptian Dār al-Iftāʾ, gave a speech in which he discussed the role of the Egyptian Dār al-Iftāʾ in promoting interfaith discussion, tolerance, and human fraternity.
According to Zayd, the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 4 Aug 2024
Minister of Higher Education & Scientific Research, Ayman ʿĀshūr, received Minister of Culture, Aḥmad Fūʾād Hannū, to discuss a joint plan of action to enhance intellectual awareness for university students in all sectors.
ʿĀshūr said the two sides tackled integrated efforts to make the best...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 4 Aug 2024
Pope Tawāḍrūs received a delegation from the Jordanian general organization for the Virgin Mary sisterhoods, led by spiritual guide Father Ibrāhīm Naffāʿ.
Father Naffāʿ gave the pope an overview of the Jordanian organization and its function, while Pope Tawāḍrūs spoke extensively about the Holy...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 1 Aug 2024
On Thursday, August 1, a team of Spanish Christians traveled to Jerusalem to meet with the Greek Orthodox Archbishop, ʿAṭallah Ḥannā of Sebastia, for the latest information on the tragic events in the Gaza Strip.
“Christian churches in this area have always called for peace, justice, and the end of...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 5 Aug 2024
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Date of source: 30 Jul 2024
“Congratulations Rūʾā, it’s the Sheikh of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad el Ṭayyeb!” These simple words started the phone conversation between the Grand Imām of al-Azhar and a young Palestinian girl named Rūʾ ā Rāʾed Miṣbāḥ Abū Dāyer, whom he congratulated for earning second place in the scientific section at...
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Translator Nuhā Ḥurayba
Date of source: 5 Jul 2024
During a recent visit to Thailand, Dr. Aḥmad el-Ṭayyeb, Sheikh of al-Azhar, was keen on visiting the Islamic Center in Bangkok to lead Friday prayers with a crowd of Muslim worshippers who were celebrating his presence, and with whom he exchanged conversations and pictures.
Led by the imām of the...
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Translator Nuhā Ḥurayba
Date of source: 25 Jul 2024
Pope Tawāḍrūs led his weekly sermon from Bayt al ʿĀʾila Al Muqadasa (The Holy Family House) conference center in Wādī al-Naṭrūn. His Holiness continued his series of sermons titled “Ibʿād al Khidma al sabaʾa” (The Seven Dimensions of Service), those being:
1. The joy of service through presence.
2...
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Translator Jacob Snow
Date of source: 18 Jul 2024
The new government program seeks to revitalize religious discourse in Egypt by acknowledging religious organizations' significant cultural role. The intention is to achieve unity and cohesiveness by utilizing Egypt’s past and legacy to promote ideals of tolerance and reject bigotry and hatred.
The...
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Translator Ḥabibā Maḥmud
Date of source: 19 Mar 2024
Sheikh Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb is the current Grand Imām of al-Azhar, a prestigious Islamic institution. Appointed in 2010, he has been a controversial figure due to his Ṣūfī background. However, he is also known for his moderate views and efforts to promote Islam in the West.
Al-Ṭayyīb has a solid...
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Translator Ḥabibā Maḥmud
Date of source: 20 Jul 2024
Al-Azhar's wing of the 19th annual International Book Fair in Alexandria featured several paintings on the Palestine issue. Images of the official map were prominent, as were those examining Israeli war crimes.
The university has called upon the world to support Palestine, most recently during...
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Translator Sophie Cooper
Date of source: 20 Jul 2024
Archbishop Sāmy Fawzy of the Episcopal province of Alexandria said the relationship between the church and al-Azhar University is exemplified by the Centre of Christian-Muslim Understanding & Partnership (CCMUP).
Next June, the center will hold discussions at the Institut d'Égypte on the link...
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Translator Sophie Cooper
Date of source: 21 Jul 2024
Al-Azhar’s Islamic Research Institute dispatched social advocacy convoys to head next week to South Sinai, Benī Sūwayf, and Port Said. The convoys are part of grand Imām Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb's comprehensive strategy to foster meaningful communication between social groups and geographic locations and...
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Translator Sophie Cooper
Date of source: 9 May 2023
A Vatican initiative for Christian unity published a book to mark the fiftieth anniversary of a summit between Pope Shenūdah III and Pope Paul VI. The meeting was a milestone in the relationship between the Catholic and Coptic churches.
The book will be released in tandem with a day of charity and...
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Translator Sophie Cooper
Date of source: 18 Jul 2024
The Egyptian minister of foreign affairs and immigration, Dr. Badr ʿAbd al-ʿĀtify, congratulated al-Azhar's grand Imām Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb for the results of his southeast Asian and Emirati tour.
The minister expressed his pride and admiration for al-Azhar's sterling reputation abroad. He hoped the...
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Translator Sophie Cooper
Date of source: 25 Jul 2024
On Wednesday, Pope Tawāḍrūs led his weekly sermon at the Holy Family Conference House (Bayt el ʿĀʾila) in Wādī Naṭrūn as part of the activities of the Gulf Priests Conference.
He conveyed gratitude to all government officials in the Gulf nations for their support of the Coptic churches and the...
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Translator Nuhā Ḥurayba
Date of source: 22 Jul 2024
On Monday, Pope Tawāḍrūs received Dr. Ibrāhīm Ṣāber, Governor of Cairo, at the papal headquarters in Cairo. The Pope congratulated the governor on President ʿAbd el Fattāḥ al-Sīsī’s confidence and his appointment as Cairo’s governor.
The Pope also highlighted the achievement of establishing the...
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Translator Nuhā Ḥurayba
Date of source: 26 Jul 2024
France has not backed down from the decision to prevent veiled French athletes from participating in the Summer Olympics, which will begin in Paris on Friday.
Even though the International Olympic Committee lacks a single, unified legislation prohibiting the wearing of the ḥijāb (veil), French...
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Translator Nuhā Ḥurayba
Date of source: 27 Jul 2024
On Friday, the 26th of July, millions of people around the world witnessed the opening of the Olympic games in Paris, the capital of France. I was not lucky enough to watch the ceremony due to the time difference between Australia and France. I was however surprised at the amount of criticism faced...
Reviewed by Nuhā Ḥurayba
Translator Nuhā Ḥurayba
Date of source: 12 Jul 2024
The official reception welcoming Grand Imām Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb to Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand last week sparked discussions among popular and elite observers alike on the untapped potential of al-Azhar University as a source of Egyptian soft power.
The flattering coverage contrasts with other...
Reviewed by ʿAmr al-Misrī
Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 12 Jul 2024
Pope Tawāḍrūs exhorted his followers to recognize the work of God in their lives, the lives of their families, and their services.
“God’s blessings with us are many, and they are renewed every morning,” said Pope Tawāḍrūs in a sermon concluding the Apostles' Fast, published under the title "With...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 14 Jul 2024
The Coptic Orthodox Church is celebrating the birth of the Virgin Mary in Musṭurud, al-Qalyūbīya governorate. The yearly festivities occur in mid-August, coinciding with the Fast of the Virgin Mary. Jesus and the Virgin visited Musṭurud, where Copts now come to seek blessings, particularly from the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 17 Jul 2024
Pope Tawāḍrūs began his fourth pastoral visit to Alexandria in less than a month by attending the graduation ceremony for the first batch of students gaining a Higher Diploma in Biblical Studies under the auspices of the Clerical College in Alexandria. The event was held in a theater attached to...
Reviewed by Nuhā Ḥurayba
Translator Nuhā Ḥurayba
Date of source: 21 Jul 2024
The Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Elders met with the Archbishop of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, in the Turkish city of Istanbul. They discussed how to combat hate speech, advance interfaith discussion and its role in promoting ideals of tolerance and human...
Reviewed by Nuhā Ḥurayba
Translator Nuhā Ḥurayba
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Date of source: Monday, May 2, 2011
By: AINA
Date of source: Saturday, February 9, 2013
By: AFP
YouTube, a subsidiary of US Internet giant Google, has been blocked in Pakistan since December for refusing to heed Islamabad’s call to remove the same video.—File Photo
Date of source: Saturday, February 9, 2013
By: AP
CAIRO (AP) — Watching the events in Tunisia, where a leading anti-Islamist politician was shot to death this past week, members of Egypt's liberal opposition are fearfully asking: Could it happen here too?
Date of source: Tuesday, February 5, 2013
By: Christian Post
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2013
By: FaithWorld
Many Egyptian viewers were horrified when preacher Hisham el-Ashry recently popped up on primetime television to say women must cover up for their own protection and advocated the introduction of religious police.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 6, 2013
By: Catholic Culture
The head of the Coptic Orthodox Church has criticized Egypt’s new constitution, which declares that “principles of Islamic Sharia are the principal source of legislation.”
Date of source: Thursday, February 7, 2013
By: Reuters
Reuters) - To his critics, Ahmed Shafik is a typical autocrat consigned to history's dustbin by the Arab Spring - a military man turned politician who ended his career amid corruption allegations and fled to the Gulf.
Date of source: Thursday, February 7, 2013
By: Christian Today
The North Cairo Criminal Court sentenced two Copts, Maikel Adel Naguib Farag and Maikel Mossad Shaker, to three years imprisonment on 4 February for stealing a machine gun from the armed forces during the violence of 9 October 2011, when the Egyptian military attacked a peaceful civil rights demo
Date of source: Wednesday, February 5, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
“I did not expect the idea to be disseminated this way all over Egypt in just six days.” With this
statement a founder of the Black Bloc in Egypt started his conversation with me, showing his surprise
at how the idea was well received by youth groups.
Date of source: Monday, February 4, 2013
By: INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP
It is difficult to know which is most dangerous: the serious
uptick in street violence; President Morsi’s and the Muslim
Brotherhood’s serial inability to reach out to the rest of the
political class inclusively; or the opposition clinging to the hope
Date of source: Monday, February 4, 2013
By: FT.com
Egyptians defied efforts by President Mohamed Morsi to restore order around the country on Monday as demonstrators and security forces clashed for the fifth consecutive day and tension mounted between the government and its opposition rivals.
Date of source: Monday, January 28, 2013
By: The Guardian
Campaigners in Egypt say at least 25 women have been assaulted as state of emergency is declared in three provinces
Date of source: Friday, February 1, 2013
By: BBC News
he Black Bloc, a new Egyptian anarchist group, made its first appearance last week, on the eve of the second anniversary of the 25 January 2011 revolution. With a declared aim of fighting the Muslim Brotherhood, it has drawn a lot of mainstream criticism.
Date of source: Saturday, February 2, 2013
By: NYTimes.com
Egyptian activists released a brutally frank video on Friday, using images recorded during the mass sexual assault of a woman last week in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to urge volunteers to join their campaign against attacks during demonstrations.
Date of source: Saturday, February 2, 2013
By: Toronto Star”.pdf
LUXOR, EGYPT—Police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds
of Muslim protesters outside a church in southern Egypt
Friday. The demonstrators were demanding an investigation
into allegations that a Christian man sexually assaulted a
Date of source: Saturday, February 2, 2013
By: The Washington Post
CAIRO — Egypt’s opposition movement shifted its strategy Wednesday, calling for a national dialogue to resolve the country’s ongoing political crisis days after it had rejected an almost identical invitation from embattled President Mohamed Morsi.
Date of source: Saturday, February 2, 2013
By: CSMonitor.com
Five days of protests in Egypt, with dozens of people killed and entire cities in turmoil, have revealed a whopping deficit of public trust in the
Date of source: Monday, February 18, 2013
By: bariatwan
The Egyptian Prosecutor General's approval of an arrest warrant for fundamentalist preacher Ahmed Mohammed "Abu Islam" Abdallah — on charges of insulting religion — represent a crucial development in the history of Egyptian justice, by putting an end to the current media free-for-all in the count
Date of source: Tuesday, March 19, 2013
By: Al-Monitor
Since the establishment of Egypt’s first republic in 1952, the country’s foreign policy has never
been clearly sectarian, with neither a Sunni nor Shiite identity taking precedence. Following the
Date of source: Wednesday, February 26, 2014
By: uscirf
I want to thank the Members of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa for
holding this hearing, “Demonstrations in Tahrir Square: Two Years Later, What Has
Changed?” and for inviting me to testify here today on behalf of the U.S. Commission on
Date of source: Tuesday, February 4, 2014
By: americanthinker
Muslim persecution of Christians is the "Achilles heel" of the global Islamic movement's image -- the surest way of exposing its supremacist and intolerant elements, and one of the main reasons the major media and establishment rarely report or address it.
Date of source: Friday, February 7, 2014
By: meforum
After my recent articles documenting how the U.S.
Date of source: Friday, February 7, 2014
By: forbes
Before the 2012 Egyptian presidential elections, dozens of Muslim Brotherhood members were dispatched to the US and Europe. They presented a picture that interlocutors could identify with. They were young, western-educated and articulate.
Date of source: Sunday, February 2, 2014
By: Hoover Institution
The fall of the Mubarak regime was no blessing for this small Christian sect.
Date of source: Saturday, February 8, 2014
By: reuters
(Reuters) - Egyptian leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi announced on Saturday he would be running for the presidency in a forthcoming election, enlivening a race that army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is widely expected to win.
Date of source: Sunday, February 9, 2014
By: worldreview
EGYPT is struggling with an internal and violent political and social conflict which will continue to undermine domestic stability.
Date of source: Friday, February 7, 2014
By: The Arabist
Jehane Noujaim's documentary The Square has been short-listed for the Oscar, is now available on Netflix, and recently won her an Directors' Guild Award. But it has still not been released or even screened at a festival here.
Date of source: Thursday, February 13, 2014
By: Reuters
(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday threw his weight behind a presidential bid by Egyptian Army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, voicing hope that ties would strengthen after the election.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 19, 2014
By: BBC News
Britons are being advised to avoid the Egyptian region of South Sinai - except the holiday resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
The Foreign Office said British nationals should avoid "all but essential travel" to the region.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 11, 2014
By: CNN
Editor's note: H.A. Hellyer is a non-resident fellow in Foreign Policy at the Washington DC-based think tank Brookings Institution and the Royal United Services Institution in London.
Date of source: Friday, November 15, 2013
By: securityobserver
This article seeks to contrast Egypt’s leadership role in the Middle East after the Second World War with the one Turkey is currently aiming for, while emphasizing the fundamental changes that occurred in Middle East countries during the second half of the 20th century.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 4, 2014
By: atlanticcouncil
A look at Tahrir Square on January 25 during the 2011 uprising's third anniversary would leave one wondering where all the younger protesters who led the movement have gone.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 28, 2014
By: Atlantic Council
The terms “banned” and “terrorist” are once again affixed to mention of the Muslim Brotherhood in nearly all Egyptian media.
Date of source: Friday, January 24, 2014
By: NYTimes.com
CAIRO — Three years after the start of its revolt for democracy, the capital was shaken Friday by four deadly bombings, in the clearest sign yet that Egypt is entering a prolonged and violent struggle between the military-backed government and a growing Islamist insurgency.
Date of source: Sunday, February 2, 2014
By: vimeo
debalie.nl/agenda/programma/hrw%3a-reporting-change-in-egypt/e_9420509/p_11170885
Date of source: Sunday, February 9, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
In a somewhat surprising turn of events in Cairo, Hamdeen Sabahi, head of the Popular Current (PC), announced on Feb. 9 his bid to run for the presidency.
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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.