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Date of source: 16 Feb 2026
The Grand Mosque of Paris has published Muslims in the West: Unchanging Religious Practices, Adapted Presence, a 900-page book led by rector Chams-Eddine Hafiz (Shams al-Dīn Ḥafiẓ) and published on February 10, 2026. The project, developed over five years by around fifty imams and theologians in...
Reviewed by Lize Jasperse
Translator Lize Jasperse
Date of source: 9 Feb 2026
In a series of fatwas concerning Ramadan and fasting, Dr. ʿAṭiyya Lāshīn, Professor of Islamic Jurisprudence and member of the Fatwa Committee at al-Azhar, answered a question he received: "Is it obligatory for all Muslims to fast if the crescent moon is sighted in one country, or does each country...
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Translator Bas Breet, Minna al-Maʿāz
Date of source: 13 Feb 2026
Journalist Ashraf Ḥilmī severely criticized the "concealment" of Coptic young girl Silvana ʿĀṭif, a minor who suffers from a mental disability, from her parents at a government care home.
This comes after the Ṭāmya prosecution in al-Fayyūm province decided to place the girl in a care home...
Reviewed by ʿAmr al-Misrī
Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 1 Feb 2026
Underage Coptic girl Silvana ʿĀṭif Fānūs, whose family claimed she had been kidnapped but was later found by the police, has been placed in a public care home for children by order of the public prosecutor of Ṭāmya in al-Fayyūm province, some 110 km southwest of Cairo, where Silvana was found. Her...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 12 Feb 2026
Al-Azhar warned on Thursday against videos and posts on social media that call for "relying solely on the Holy Qur’ān as the source of Islamic legislation and denying the Sunna of the Prophet Muḥammad entirely or partially."
According to a post on Al-Azhar’s account on the X platform, the top Sunni...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 11 Feb 2026
Sayyid Aḥmad al-Badawī is considered one of the most prominent figures of Sufism in Egypt and the Islamic world. His name is closely associated with the city of Ṭanṭā, al-Gharbīya governorate, where his mosque and shrine have become a spiritual destination for millions of visitors throughout the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 20 Feb 2026
Prime Minister Moṣṭafa Madbūlī should take the bull by the horns and push the draft Personal Status Law for Christians to the House of Representatives in its new lineup to debate it publicly and endorse it if it is unanimously approved. This is a commendable action by the government, and I will...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 13 Feb 2026
His Holiness Pope Tawāḍrūs (Tawadros) II welcomed the Church delegation returning from a visit to the Vatican as a part of the Eastern Orthodox Family delegation at the invitation of the Vatican’s Department for the Promotion of Christian Unity.
During the meeting, the delegation presented a...
Reviewed by Minna al-Maʿāz
Translator Minna al-Maʿāz
Date of source: 15 Feb 2026
The Monastery of Anbā Shinūda (known as the White Monastery) in the western mountains of the Sūhāg governorate released a statement announcing a new schedule for receiving visitors during Great Lent. The statement clarified that the monastery will only receive visitors on three days a week: Friday...
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Translator Phoebe Lewis
Date of source: 12 Feb 2026
Al-Azhar stated that it has been monitoring the circulation of video clips and posts promoting ideas that advocate relying solely on the Noble Qurʾān as a source for Islamic law, denying the Sunna of the Prophet wholly or partially, calling for a complete break with the Islamic heritage, and...
Reviewed by Margarita Louisa Yanez
Translator Margarita Louisa Yanez
Date of source: 16 Feb 2026
The French Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, has started an official two-day visit to Algeria. In a context of sensitive diplomatic times, he will meet with his Algerian counterpart, Saïd Sayoud (Saʿīd Saʿyūd), to discuss several sensitive and priority issues. The meeting was initiated by...
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Translator Lize Jasperse
Rulings related to Women in Positions of Religious and Political Leadership: Summary and Translation
Date of source: 16 Feb 2026
Reviewed by Sara al-Sherbiny
Translator Sara al-Sherbiny
Date of source: 6 Jan 2026
Dr. Salāma Jumʿa Dāwud, President of al-Azhar University, confirmed that al-Azhar’s message is global and that it wants to spread its central approach locally, regionally, and globally. He said that this is the secret behind al-Azhar’s lofty status that it has maintained for over a thousand years....
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Translator Isa Raaijmakers
Date of source: 7 Feb 2026
Dr. Māyā Mursī, Minister of Social Solidarity, in coordination with the Director of the Social Solidarity Directorate in al-Minyā Governorate, directed the disbursement of the necessary aid to the families of the victims of the collapse of an internal wall at one of the buildings of the historic...
Reviewed by Minna al-Maʿāz
Translator Minna al-Maʿāz
Date of source: 11 Feb 2026
In Egypt and throughout the Islamic world, millions of Muslims are eagerly awaiting the date of the holy month of Ramaḍān due to its spirituality and the great significance it holds in their hearts. Ramaḍān is a month of fasting, worship and drawing closer to God, during which there is a noticeable...
Reviewed by Phoebe Lewis
Translator Phoebe Lewis
Date of source: 10 Feb 2026
Yesterday evening, His Holiness Pope Tawāḍrūs (Tawadros) II inaugurated a seminar on Coptic monasticism and convents of nuns in Egypt and abroad, which is being held over the course of 6 days at the headquarters of the Coptic Saint Mark Academy in the Logos Center at the Monastery of Saint Anba...
Reviewed by Margarita Louisa Yanez
Translator Margarita Louisa Yanez
Date of source: 15 Feb 2026
Date of source: 8 Feb 2026
A professor at al-Azhar said that Israel is an "illegitimate" entity, both historically and geographically, adding that its existence in the region is "weird" in terms of geography, religion, civilization and language.
"The disparate origins of the Israelis deprive them of the concept of a nation...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 8 Feb 2026
The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Dr. Naẓīr Muḥammad ʿAyyād, said that the Palestinian issue has never been a passing political file or an emergency event, but rather it is a matter of right, a focus of justice, and a measure of a "vigilant conscience."
He made the remarks during a course on the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 6 Feb 2026
The public prosecution in Mallawī, al-Minyā governorate, southern Egypt, began examining the site of the collapse of a fence at the ancient Monastery of Saint Abū Fānā, which left four children killed and two others wounded.
A technical committee of experts is investigating the causes of the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 6 Feb 2026
Four people died and two others were injured after a partial collapse of a newly constructed wall at the Abū Fānā Monastery in the Western Desert in the Mallawī district, south of al-Minyā governorate.
Local security authorities received a report about a partial collapse of a fence that had been...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 4 Feb 2026
Al-Azhar held a celebration on Wednesday (February 4) to mark the International Day of Human Fraternity, commemorating the historic Document on Human Fraternity, signed by Grand Imām of al-Azhar Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib and the late Pope Francis of the Vatican in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, in...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 15 Feb 2026
Date of source: 30 Jan 2026
The Muslim Council of Elders’ pavilion at the 57th Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) is offering a book titled "Al-Qawl al-Ṭayyib" (The Good Word) by the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, who is also the chairman of the council, which sheds light on the tolerance of Islam and its rich...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 31 Jan 2026
The Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt celebrates the memory of Pope Kyrillos (Cyril) IV, famously known as the "Father of Reform."
Church affairs researcher Marquṣ Mīlād stated that Pope Kyrillos IV sat on the patriarchal throne for a short period of time—6 years, 7 months and 12 days (1853-1861)....
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 18 Jan 2026
The Peace Square is one of the most prominent landmarks of the Great Transfiguration project in Saint Catherine, as it represents the beating heart of the project and its official center, and is designed to be a unifying space that expresses the symbolism of coexistence among the three Abrahamic...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 4 Jan 2026
Despite the holiday at Saint Catherine Monastery, the city has received a large number of tourists and visitors on Sunday morning (January 4). They came to climb Gabal Mūsa (Mount Sinai) and watch the sunrise from the highest mountain peak, visit historical sites, colorful valleys, the St....
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 27 Jan 2026
The Grand Muftī of Egypt, Dr. Naẓīr Muḥammad ʿAyyād, is taking part in the activities of the first scholarly forum organized by the Imām al-Ashʿarī Center at the al-Azhar Conference Center in Cairo on Tuesday, January 27, under the title "Imām al-Ashʿarī: Intellectual Approaches to Islamic Sects:...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 26 Jan 2026
Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, said that the January 25 Revolution constituted an important milestone in the history of the nation, in which the Egyptian people expressed their will and aspirations for dignity and freedom, and its sons, through their sacrifices, wrote a bright page in...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 23 Jan 2026
The Indonesian pavilion participating in the Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) 2026, in its second appearance at the fair after 20 years since its last participation in 2006, witnessed diverse scholarly and religious books in particular.
Rifqi Abdul Aziz, an official from the Indonesian Ministry...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 29 Jan 2026
The Fatwa Corner at Al-Azhar’s pavilion in the Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) is receiving nearly two thousand questions daily.
Al-Azhar takes center stage in issuing fatwas and building awareness at the 57th session of CIBF, as the corner witnessed discussions about many religious and...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 29 Jan 2026
Al-Azhar pavilion’s Fatwa Corner at the 47th Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) continues to play its enlightening role in explaining Sharīʿa rulings and confronting intellectual doubts, as it receives more than two thousand fatwas daily, in a clear indication of the public’s confidence in Al-...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 28 Jan 2026
The 57th session of the Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) has seen a massive turnout on the Fatwa Corner at al-Azhar pavilion, attracting the attention of the fair visitors in a scene that reflects the size of the public’s interest, especially from young people who are looking for direct answers...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 10 Jan 2026
The Coptic Orthodox Church's Fast of Jonah, also known as the Fast of Nineveh 2026, will take place between February 2nd and 4th, 2026, while the Feast of Jonah falls on February 5th.
During the fasting period, the Coptic Orthodox Church dioceses hold more than one mass to allow the largest number...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 27 Jan 2026
St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church in al-Maʿādī, Cairo, hosted the prayer service for the third day, in the presence of bishops, priests and pastors from different churches, along with a group of Christian people in al-Maʿādī and surrounding areas, as a continuation of the activities of the Week...
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Date of source: Friday, January 31, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
Date of source: Thursday, January 23, 2014
By: Persecution News
Organization Records 69 Cases of Kidnapping in 2013
Date of source: Friday, January 31, 2014
By: UPI.com
An Egyptian military bulldozer dismantles Cairo's Al-Nahda square protest camp after Egyptian security forces dispersed supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi in two huge camps in the Egyptian capital on August 14, 2013. UPI/Karem Ahmed
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Date of source: Sunday, February 2, 2014
By: Telegraph
IT IS an unlikely setting from which to launch a fightback against Egypt's new military rulers.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 22, 2013
By: Al-Monitor
An Egyptian walks past posters of Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef outside a theatre in Cairo, Jan. 22, 2013. (photo by AFP/Getty Images/Khaled Desouki)
Date of source: Monday, February 3, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
Sexual harassment in Egypt is on the rise. Many Egyptian women suffer from this phenomenon that violates a woman’s body and freedom.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 5, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
The Working Group on Egypt (WGE), a nonpartisan US-based group of scholars and experts on Egypt co-chaired by Michele Dunne of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Robert K
Date of source: Tuesday, February 4, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
CAIRO — In his second letter penned from an Egyptian prison, Australian journalist Peter Greste wrote, “Journalists are never supposed to become the story.” But due to unrelenting pressure by family members and supporters, he and colleagues netted in the state’s crackdown on the media have become
Date of source: Monday, December 30, 2013
By: NightWatch
Syria: President Bashar Asad Monday called for a battle against Wahhabism, the political and religious theology embraced by the Saudi Arabian government that backs the Sunni uprising against his regime.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 1, 2014
By: PJ Media
A triumph for freedom exposed where the key players stood and people power became Islamists' biggest threat.
Date of source: Thursday, March 8, 2012
By: Al-Monitor
CAIRO — If human rights defender Nancy Okail were to return to Cairo today to visit her twin toddlers, she would be imprisoned.
Date of source: Saturday, January 4, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
The sight of blood and charred debris, the screams of loss and pain and the rising death toll often leave people speechless, unable to comprehend a thought.
Date of source: Saturday, January 4, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
The sight of blood and charred debris, the screams of loss and pain and the rising death toll often leave people speechless, unable to comprehend a thought.
Date of source: Friday, January 10, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
TURA, Egypt — If the first week of 2014 is any indication of what activists may face in the third year since the uprising that forced Hosni Mubarak from power, government critics and their lawyers say the road before them is long and treacherous, as Egypt’s security state is criminalizing any dis
Date of source: Sunday, January 5, 2014
By: Reuters
(Reuters) - Twelve Egyptian activists were given one-year suspended jail terms on Sunday in a case brought over an attack on the campaign headquarters of defeated presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik during the 2012 election.
Date of source: Sunday, January 12, 2014
By: Ahram Online
The low turnout of Egyptian expats on the referendum is due to the cancellation of the option of voting via mail, Deputy Foreign Minister Hamdy Loza said in a phone interview with Egyptian private satellite channel MBC Misr.
Date of source: Monday, January 6, 2014
By: MENA
President Adli Mansour visited on Sunday 5/1/2014 the Coptic Cathedral in Abbassiya where he met with Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark Diocese to offer greetings to the Copts on the occasion of Christmas.
Date of source: Saturday, January 25, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
CAIRO — On Jan. 25, armored vehicles, machine guns, barbed wire, metal detectors and dozens of police and military personnel surrounded Tahrir Square.
Date of source: Monday, January 20, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
Egypt’s referendum on the new constitution was approved by a staggering 98.1% of the voters. US Secretary of State John K
Date of source: Friday, January 24, 2014
By: UPI.com
LONDON, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- British Minister for North African Hugh Robertson said Friday he condemned violence in Egypt as British residents there were advised to remain vigilant.
Robertson condemned bombings in Cairo that left at least four people dead and more than 70 injured.
Date of source: Monday, January 13, 2014
By: Reuters
(Reuters) - Egyptians vote on Tuesday in a constitutional referendum, the first ballot since the military overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Mursi and an event likely to spawn a presidential bid by army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Date of source: Monday, January 13, 2014
By: Reuters
(Reuters) - Egyptians vote on Tuesday in a constitutional referendum, the first ballot since the military overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Mursi and an event likely to spawn a presidential bid by army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 14, 2014
By: Fikra Forum
On January 14, Egyptians are expected to go once again to the polling stations to vote on the newly drafted constitution. It will be the third constitution-related referendum held in Egypt since Mubarak was toppled in February 2011.
Date of source: Thursday, January 23, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
CAIRO — As Egypt's interim president and ministers of defense and interior celebrated the third anniversary of the January 25 Revolution, countless authors and TV show hosts continued to smear the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak's dictatorship. On this day in 2011, Egyptians took to
Date of source: Friday, January 17, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
It’s not every day that a well-known Egyptian intellectual makes pronouncements of the kind made by philosopher Youssef Zeidan. The Egyptian and Israeli media missed what he said at the end of a Dec.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 8, 2014
By: OnIslam.net
The word Copt is an English word taken from the Arabic word Gibt or Gypt. It literally means Egyptian. The Arabs, after their conquest of Egypt in 641 AD, called the population of Egypt Gypt, from the Greek word Egyptos or Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, January 12, 2014
By: Ahram Online
This week's referendum on a new draft constitution marks the first time Egyptians have gone to polls since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi on 3 July 2013.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 8, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
El-ARISH, North Sinai — Every road leading to North Sinai's only remaining church was blocked by an armored vehicle, a light tank or a Humvee surrounded by several military and special operations personnel.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 15, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
The recordings released by Egyptian journalist Abdel Rahim Ali about some activists and politicians — including activist Asmaa Mahfouz, the founder of the April 6 Youth Movement Ahmed Maher, Abdul Rahman Yusuf and former par
Date of source: Monday, January 6, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
It's hard to see any winner in Egypt’s messy political arena — one that is dominated by near-daily deadly confrontations between the Muslim Brotherhood and the military-backed interim leadership.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 15, 2014
By: patheos
In the Roman calendar today is the feast of Macarius of Egypt. In the Eastern churches his feast is a couple of days later on the 19th.
Date of source: Friday, January 17, 2014
By: The Washington Institute
Given the limitations and internal divisions of Egypt's various power centers, neither the military nor any other single institution is solely in charge at the moment.
Date of source: Friday, January 17, 2014
By: Center for International Maritime Security
Date of source: Thursday, January 23, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
CAIRO — Three letters written by prominent Egyptians — two from inside jail — are making the rounds on social media, punctuating the fallout of government crackdowns in a politically charged climate that appears far from reconciliation, despite calls to end polarization on the third anniversary o
Date of source: Saturday, January 11, 2014
By: Daily News Egypt
Date of source: Thursday, January 16, 2014
By: Christianity Today
In 2011, Nadia Makram, 13, was walking home from church near her working-class Cairo neighborhood when she vanished.
By: Al-Monitor
On Jan. 14 and 15, Egyptians will decide the country’s future in the most important referendum Egypt has seen in 60 years.
Date of source: Friday, January 17, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
Sexual harassment in Egypt is a dangerous phenomenon.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 8, 2014
By: Al Jazeera America
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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.