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Date of source: 5 Nov 2024
A Swedish court on Tuesday found a far-right activist guilty of two counts of hate crimes against Muslims over statements he made whilst burning copies of the Qurʾān. This triggered riots in the country in 2022.
The Malmo district court issued a statement announcing the sentencing of Rasmus Paludan...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 30 Oct 2024
Dār al-Iftāʾ fatwā secretary, Shaykh Moḥammed Wasām, has stressed the importance of properly clarifying the historical narrations pertaining to the head of Imām Ḥussein, in light of the ongoing debate surrounding its presence in Egypt.
During an episode of the programme “Maʿa al-Nās” (With the...
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Translator Jack Heron
Date of source: 13 Nov 2024
The family of Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyeb, announced that after a battle with illness, the eldest sister, Ḥājja Samīḥa, has passed away at the age of 90.
Sources say that the funeral will take place on Wednesday, November 13th, with condolence ceremonies to be held at al-Imām al-...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 29 Oct 2024
Media personality Aḥmad al-Muslimānī has stated that the United States constitution guarantees freedom of expression on any political issue, except when it comes to the question of Israel and Palestine.
“There is no right to freedom of expression here,” said al-Muslimānī in his talk show, al-Ṭabʿa...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 16 Nov 2024
Pope Tawāḍrūs has stated that amidst the wars and suffering of today, humanity is driven to seek peace through Christ’s love.
“Our mission is to be witnesses of Christ and to spread His love everywhere,” said Pope Tawāḍrūs, as he met with a monastic delegation from the Russian Orthodox Church led...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 25 Nov 2024
There is a time for something and there is a time for its opposite, the Preacher in the Book of Ecclesiastes tells us. He gives many examples of this phenomenon. There is a time to love, there is a time to hate. There is a time of war and a time of peace. If you asked this Preacher now, in these...
Date of source: 16 Nov 2024
The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre (RISSC) in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan released its annual book on the world’s 500 most influential Muslims for 2024/25, with the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyeb, ranked as 13th.
The book aims to introduce important figures in the Muslim...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 21 Oct 2024
Anbā Kyrillos was born Sīdārūs Marqus Jirjis in al-Naghāmīsh village of al-Balyanā town in the Sūhāj province of southern Egypt, but his year of birth is not accurately known. He was brought up by his father to be a devout Christian, memorized the church hymns and psalms from a young age, and would...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī, Nuhā Ḥurayba
Date of source: 24 Nov 2024
Date of source: 10 Nov 2024
The Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Service (CEOSS) announced it is attending the climate summit COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11 - November 22, as an official observer from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The participation represents a new...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 3 Nov 2024
Grand Muftī of Egypt, Dr. Naẓīr ʿAyyād, went to Azerbaijan to attend the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or COP29, and to also participate in the Global Summit of Religious Leaders, scheduled for November 5-6, where he will deliver a...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 30 Oct 2024
On 30th October 2024, the Cabinet, led by Prime Minister Muṣṭafā Madbūlī, approved recommendations made by an ad-hoc committee on the legal status of 293 churches, and other church-affiliated buildings.
The committee was set up in 2016 based on Article 8 of Law No. 80 on the regulation of the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 29 Oct 2024
On 29th October, during a symposium, the Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance (CEWLA) met in the province of al-Minyā in Upper Egypt to discuss issues about the personal status law of non-Muslims in Egypt.
In a lecture, Dr. ʿĀṭif Jamāl, deputy dean of the Faculty of Law at al-Minyā...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 18 Sep 2024
A public opinion survey showed that the majority of inhabitants of the Gaza Strip believe the decision of Ḥamās to wage an attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, was “wrong,” revealing a major decline in support for the al-Aqṣā Typhoon operation.
The poll, conducted by the Palestinian Center for...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 9 Nov 2024
Upon an official invitation from the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyeb, is attending the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit, or COP29, in Azerbaijan.
In his speech, Dr. Ṭayyeb,...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 27 Oct 2024
Public Prosecutor, Muḥammad Shawqī, ordered that the individual who issued a fatwā allowing for the theft of water, electricity, and gas, be referred to a criminal court on charges of disrespecting family values in Egyptian society.
The suspect will be facing charges for publishing a video clip...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 21 Aug 2024
The Archbishop of the Coptic Catholic Diocese of Ṭība (Thebes), Anbā ʿAmānūʾīl ʿAyyād, participated in the Holy Book 2024 contest for elementary, preparatory, and secondary education.
After three months of thorough analysis of the Saint Luke Gospel contest, which the Episcopal Committee started for...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 24 Oct 2024
The Palestinian resistance movement Ḥamās called on Russia to urge Palestinian President, Maḥmūd ʿAbbās, to start negotiations on forming a national unity government to run the Gaza Strip after the war.
Russian media reported that Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Mikhail Bogdanov, met with Mūsa Abū...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 29 Oct 2024
Currently, the entire world stands idle yet cannot overlook the severity of the genocide in the Gaza Strip, in which fighters, civilians, children, women, and the elderly have been targeted indiscriminately.
This reaction has provoked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attempt to...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 30 Oct 2024
Pope Tawāḍrūs of the Coptic Orthodox Church said the al-Muqaṭṭam service has many blessed priests who have offered magnificent service over the years, noting that he remembers Father Samʿān al-Kharrāz, who started his ministry to the church fifty years ago, along with a group of other priests who...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 31 Oct 2024
Following a three-day meeting, a group of bishops and archbishops who had split from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church formed the “Tigray Orthodox Tewahedo Church Synod,” an ethnic and regional synod, based on a recently produced “Church canon.”
In a 16-point statement, the group stated that Abune...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 27 Oct 2024
Dr. Zaynab al-Saʿīd, a fatwā secretary at Dār al-Iftāʾ, said that denying women their inheritance rights is one of the worst offenses a person can commit.
“The Islamic sharīʿa has acknowledged women’s rights to inheritance. Infringement of women’s rights to receive their shares of the inheritance...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 27 Oct 2024
Dr. Hiba ʿŪf, a professor of Qurʾān interpretation at al-Azhar University, said using divorce to get a pension or using ʿurfī (legal but informal) marriage to gain financially are flagrant violations of Islamic and Muslim ethics.
“Divorce, according to the Islamic Sharīʿa, is not just a legal...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 22 Oct 2024
According to a representative for the Health & Population Ministry, discussions have taken place surrounding the eradication of female circumcision as a practice in Egypt, with international organizations coming together in a bid to raise awareness on this issue and prevent violence against...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 19 Sep 2024
On Monday, September 16, which was the occasion of al-Mawlid al-Nabawī (the Prophet Muḥammad’s Birthday), Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyeb, Grand Imām of al-Azhar, made a speech that triggered wide-scale controversy in religious and media circles.
Delivered in the presence of President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī,...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 25 Oct 2024
A protocol of cooperation between Egypt Healthcare Authority (EHA) and Bayt al-Zakāt, also known as the Alms and Charity House, was signed during a ceremony attended by Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyeb, Grand Imām of al-Azhar. It focused on the treatment of low-income and uninsured patients at al-Azhar...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 20 Oct 2024
Religion, with all its official institutions, is one of the ideological organs of the state, being used as a mechanism for control, legitimacy, and justification of policies and practices, to the extent that a degree of religious sanctity is given to these institutions, which monopolize the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 25 Oct 2024
According to a Health Ministry official, Egypt’s female circumcision rate has significantly decreased, especially for girls under the age of 19.
In statements on the show “Kol al-Zawāyā” (All Corners) on the ON E TV network, Dr. Amr Ḥasan, the Health Minister’s advisor for Population & Family...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 22 Oct 2024
The Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyeb, highlighted the role of ministries and institutions of culture in Arab nations in attaching importance to the Arabic language.
“Cultural institutions contribute to creating sources of Islamic and cultural knowledge, which are capable of attracting...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 23 Oct 2024
Ibrāhīm ʿĪsa, a well-known media personality, stated that Egypt is a civil state and that religion has no bearing on the government’s service operations.
During his talk show Ḥadīth al-Qāhira on al-Qāhira wa al-Nās TV station, ʿĪsa stated, “The government must stand against religionizing politics...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 26 Oct 2024
According to a legislator, international accords governing refugee conditions were consulted to develop the new draft law on foreigner asylum to Egypt, which the House of Representatives Defense & National Security Committee recently adopted.
“The new law aims to provide a comprehensive legal...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 19 Sep 2024
Renowned press and media personality, Ibrāhīm ʿĪsā, made a statement rejecting any connection between the October 6, 1973 war and the Operation Al-Aqṣā Typhoon, which was carried out against Israel by Ḥamās on October 7, 2023.
During the talk show, Ḥadīth al-Qāhira, on al-Qāhira wa al-Nās TV...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 15 Oct 2024
Whether or not you support what happened on October 7, the aftermath has changed the world in a way that guarantees that it will not be the same as it was before. National and international changes that have already taken place will affect the shape and future of the region.
The October 7 operation...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 18 Oct 2024
Al-Azhar declared a state of mourning for the “heroic martyrs of the Palestinian resistance” after Israel announced that Yaḥyā al-Sinwār, the leader of the Ḥamās movement, had been killed during fighting in the southern Gaza city of Rafaḥ, on Thursday, October 17.
“Al-Azhar al-Sharīf mourns the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 16 Oct 2024
As the birthplace of Jesus Christ, the Church of the Nativity in Palestine, is extremely significant to Christians, and all denominations travel there to receive its blessings, especially during the Christmas season.
According to the official website of the Bethlehem Municipality, the Church of the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 18 Oct 2024
After a full examination of the body at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv (Abū Kabīr), the Hebrew newspaper, Ynet, announced that the Israeli occupation authorities have taken the body of Yaḥyā al-Sinwār to a classified location to keep.
According to the article, it is now unclear what...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 8 Oct 2024
Under the patronage of Prime Minister Muṣṭafā Madbūlī, Dār al-Iftāʾ held a symposium titled, ‘Fatwā & Character Building,’ in which a documentary that reviewed efforts by al-Azhar as a source of enlightenment and moderation was screened.
The documentary confirmed that the priority of the Grand...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 6 Oct 2024
A researcher in the Faculty of Archeology of Cairo University said the Holy Family’s journey in Egypt is considered to be one of the most important events in history as it was based on a sacred revelation and divine orders.
In an interview with Ṣadā al-Balad news website, Bīshūy Damyān Ḥilmī said...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 22 Oct 2024
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Translator Noha Heraiba, Rajāʾ Maḥmūd Ismāʿīl
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Date of source: Monday, September 29, 2014
By: mcndirect
Observers believe that the information provided by Eman Morcos, a Coptic woman who recently escaped from kidnapping, raises serious concerns about the role of the police in the diappearance of Christian Egyptians.
Date of source: Sunday, September 28, 2014
By: mcndirect
A member of the Muslim Brotherhood attacked a Coptic family on Friday at Al Ma'sarah village in Malawy, south of Minya governorate (Upper Egypt).
Date of source: Wednesday, October 1, 2014
By: mcndirect
Al-Rawdal al-Haditha private school in 6 of October City in Giza governorate is segregating Christian and Muslim students, said Rev. Refaat Fikri, pastor of the Evangelical Church in Shubra and chairman of the Evangelical Church Information and Publishing Committee.
Date of source: Thursday, September 25, 2014
By: fikraforum
When Abdul Fattah al-Sisi made public his intention to seek Egypt’s presidency this past March, he did so in his military uniform. While typical for the outgoing defense minister, many saw it as an affirmation that the country would be a military republic with Sisi at the helm.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 1, 2014
By: mcndirect
Security forces in Minya arrested Tuesday a new defendant among other suspects of breaking into and bombing the Evangelical Church in Mallawi, southern Minya (Upper Egypt).
Date of source: Monday, September 22, 2014
By: copticsolidarity
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- President El-Sissi addresses the UN this week.
Date of source: Saturday, September 20, 2014
By: DAWN.COM
WHEN protesters successfully called for the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi last year, their rhetoric played on fears that Egypt’s first democratically elected president and his Muslim Brotherhood were seeking to turn the country into a theocracy.
Date of source: Thursday, September 25, 2014
By: Middle East Research and Information Project
More significant than what ‘Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi says before the UN this week is what his presence signifies. His first address to the
“international community” caps a year-long effort to normalize his seizure of power on July 3, 2013 and banish the taint of putschism
Date of source: Saturday, September 13, 2014
By: Ahram Online
Tonight the Coptic Museum is celebrating Coptic New Year with a series of lectures about Coptic arts,history, the Coptic calendar, and its relation to the ancient Egyptian calendar. Afterwards, a music concert
will follow.
Date of source: Thursday, September 18, 2014
By: edmontonjournal
It’s not every day that a pope comes to Edmonton.
Edmonton’s Coptic Christians packed a Mill Woods church Wednesday night for the arrival of Pope Tawadros II.
Date of source: Thursday, September 18, 2014
By: bostonglobe
ONCE AGAIN the United States finds itself embroiled in a debate over whether or not to “go to war.” It’s a choice the country shouldn’t have to make, and it wouldn’t with a bigger, more lethal clandestine service like France or Israel has.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 27, 2014
By: Carnegie Middle East Center
The setting of a minimum and maximum wage for Egypt’s civil service will help the system
become more transparent and equal. But comprehensive reform is still needed.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 2, 2014
By: allafrica
Pope Tawadros II, patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt visited the World Council of Churches (WCC) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday 1 September.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 13, 2013
By: allAfrica.com
Coptic Christian Pope Tawadros II urged the Egyptian people on Tuesday to renounce violence and avoid bloodshed.
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By: ECFR
On Wednesday 21 August EU foreign ministers will meet in emergency session to consider their
response to the latest developments in Egypt. The EU is considering a range of measures to express
Date of source: Thursday, October 24, 2013
By: Associated Press
CAIRO — The military chief who ousted Egypt's elected president called on the public Wednesday to take to the streets to give him and the police a mandate
Date of source: Wednesday, July 3, 2013
By: New Republic
Morsi and his supporters are outnumbered, and the protestors show no sign of wavering.
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Date of source: Tuesday, July 2, 2013
By: Al-Monitor
CAIRO — Only a day after the June 30 protests, the army gave President Mohammed Morsi a 48-hour ultimatum to “listen to the will of the people,” after which the army will take it upon itself to announce a road map to a solution.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 2, 2013
By: Al-Monitor
Observers are shocked. They do not understand as they watch millions of Egyptians marching in protest, in every major city in Egypt, against President
Date of source: Tuesday, July 2, 2013
By: Stratfor
With less than 24
hours left before the
military's ultimatum
to Egyptian President
Mohammed Morsi
comes into effect,
various political
factions from the
Muslim Brotherhood,
members of the
Date of source: Saturday, July 13, 2013
By: Newsmax
Coptic Christians in Egypt have come under harsh attack since the overthrow
of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi — with members of the community
kidnapped, killed, and their houses of worship trashed amid charges they
Date of source: Tuesday, July 2, 2013
By: Geopolitical Diary
The Egyptian military issued an ultimatum Monday, demanding that Egyptian
President Mohammed Morsi and the ruling Muslim Brotherhood start a dialogue
with opposition members within 48 hours, or risk the military stepping in to
Date of source: Tuesday, March 11, 2014
By: Daily News Egypt
Egypt’s representative to the United Nations, Walid Mahmoud Abdel Nasser, told the 25th United Nations Council for Human Rights Monday that Egypt is determined to protect human rights, citing the newly ratified constitution as proof of the country’s dedication to “building democratic institutions
Date of source: Tuesday, November 26, 2013
By: Al-Monitor
CAIRO — It took only minutes for activists to witness Egypt’s controversial new protest law in action on Nov. 26.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 27, 2013
By: arabist.net
yesterday, as a who's-who of Egyptian activists and human rights workers was harassed and detained for peacefully protesting, I thought back to US Secretary of State John Kerry's remarks when he visited Egypt earlier this.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 19, 2013
By: Newser
Egypt's revolutionary activists, relatively muted since the country's July coup, showed a new vigor Tuesday, scuffling with supporters of the military-backed government in Cairo's Tahrir Square and wrecking a state memorial dedicated to protesters killed in the country's nearly three years of t
Date of source: Thursday, December 12, 2013
By: LinkedIn
"Egyptian voters might well be asked to approve the new constitution without knowing much about when their new president and parliament will be elected or what sort of system will govern the parliament.
Date of source: Monday, June 17, 2013
By: meforum
Syria and Egypt are dying. They were dying before the Syrian civil war broke out and before the Muslim Brotherhood took power in Cairo. Syria has an insoluble civil war and Egypt has an insoluble crisis because they are dying.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 23, 2013
By: foreignpolicyjournal
DOHA — The warm waters of the Gulf look quiet from where I am sitting, but such tranquility hardly reflects the conflicts this region continues to generate.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 30, 2013
By: RT
Amid the ongoing crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian authorities have arrested Essam El-Arian, the vice chairman of the Freedom and Justice party. He was one of the few Brotherhood leaders remaining free since the ouster of President Morsi.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 29, 2013
By: egyptindependent
About this time last week, the bodies were being ferried into the Virgin Mary Church where they had been shot barely 24 hours before, a grim liminal irony that - as some pointed out - turned a wedding into a funeral in the space of two days.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 5, 2013
By: Al-Monitor
CAIRO — Several months ago, sometime after the volcanic period that began in November, which witnessed Mohammed Morsi declaring himself Egypt's omnipotent ruler, the referendum on the constitution, the beginning of mounting violence and anger, fierce political confrontation, and a raging fire of
Date of source: Monday, October 21, 2013
By: BBC
Three people, including a girl aged eight, died when gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a wedding party outside a Coptic Christian church in Cairo.
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Date of source: Thursday, June 20, 2013
By: meforum
Recently, the journalist Paul Sheehan, reflecting on the Woolwich beheading of Drummer Lee Rigby, invited consideration of the view of Muslim violence in authoritative Islamic texts.
Date of source: Thursday, October 31, 2013
By: middleeastmonitor
A German expert in international communications has expressed her surprise that the Egyptian media have rejected the freedoms opened up by ousted president Mohamed Morsi and opted instead for the old, military-led authoritarianism.
Date of source: Monday, October 7, 2013
By: middle-east-online
Rights groups say more than 40 churches have been attacked since August 14, including 11 in Minya and eight in Assiut.
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Date of source: Tuesday, November 5, 2013
By: Al-Monitor
The trial of the deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi — postponed until Jan. 3, 2014 — became an opportunity to escalate an unfortunate further divisions among the Egyptian people.
Date of source: Friday, November 22, 2013
By: Al-Monitor
CAIRO — Sinai novelist and activist Mosaad Abu Fajr was jailed for nearly three years under the rule of former president Hosni Mubarak for his campaign “Wedna Ne`ish” (We Want To Live), which protested issues faced in the Sinai and among the Bedouin community.
Date of source: Monday, November 11, 2013
By: soundviewmediapartners
Filmmaker Lillie Paquette follows key opposition figures and young democracy activists as they struggle against extraordinary odds and at great personal risk to remove an uncompromising U.S.-backed authoritarian regime determined to stay in power.
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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.