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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
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: 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: 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
Date of source: 4 Jan 2020
Armed forces and the police are in charge of securing the cathedral. The Coptic Orthodox Church is providing private busses from St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in ʿAbāssiyya and number of other specific points to transport those going to the mass, since security measures prohibit church-...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 8 Jan 2020
As the media looks for more information about the developments of the American and Iranian conflict, one only finds Iraqi blood, the destruction of Iraqi homes, the displacement of Iraqi families, and the bombing and demolition of their schools and hospitals as if it is the fate of Iraqis to pay...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 5 Jan 2020
American President Donald Trump’s decision to kill General Qasem Soleimani, something that his predecessors Barack Obama and George Bush refused to do, has placed the United States and Iran on the path to war. As the leader of the al-Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Soleimani was...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 23 Sep 2019
In an interview with Radio 4 BBC, Iraqi Priest, Father Jirjīs, talked about the plight and tragedy of Christians in Iraq. Christians in Iraq are a minority, who have been pushed out of their homes and subjected to assassinations. Father Jirjīs decided to stay in Iraq and help people despite the...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 17 Apr 2019
The church’s closure comes amidst dozens of Muslim residents in the village, surrounding the church and repeating hostile chants towards the Christians in the village. This winded up ending in clashes between the two groups and resulted in the injury of a Christian pastor and another citizen.
The...
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 21 Apr 2019
Despite high inflation rates, Egypt's monetary authority follows the policy: "When interest rates fall, the amount of money offered to trade increases, thus increasing the amount of cash held by people. This leads to an increased tendency for consumption and a lower tendency to save. By lowering...
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 17 Apr 2019
Recently, some effort has been made to investigate the reversal of this endeavor, in particular with regard to the founder of Zionism, Theodore Herzl, and it soon became apparent that the main purpose was to re-read Herzl's views on several issues including “The Jewish People,” "Land of Israel,"...
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 27 Nov 2019
No official statistics exist about the number of women imprisoned in Egypt, according to human rights organisations' statistics around 70 women were in prison in 2018. In 2019 the number of women arrested has increased.
In the last few months the lawyer Māhīnūr al-Maṣrī and the feminist Asmāʾ...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 26 Nov 2019
Hudā Naṣr Allāh’s father had died last year but the Christian human rights lawyer was surprised when she was informed that she will inherit half of what her brothers will receive, in accordance with the Islamic Sharia [Sharīʿah].
A year ago, the family court in Ḥilwān rejected Hudā’s inheritance...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 31 Dec 2019
The marginalization of Egyptian civil society, however, is not only a product of the laws and practices of governance, but also of factors such as the sharp ideological divisions among the civilian actors and the current hegemony of an undemocratic political culture over the majority of them....
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 21 Apr 2019
The study said that a number of issues have become more prominent in recent years in the United States: widening public polarization, reinforcement of identity politics, populist discourse that sometimes promote ugly and violent expressions of hatred, an increase in the influence of extremist sides...
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 15 Apr 2019
On April 15th, the first session of the exhibition will be entitled "Problems and Issues for Women Defying Disabilities” and will include presentations on "Community Attitudes and Values towards Women Challenging Disability - Cultural Heritage,” " Health Care for Women Defying Disability,” and "The...
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 7 Apr 2019
Continuous clashes
al-Kharṭūm yesterday witnessed mass demonstrations in which thousands participated to demand the departure of the regime and the achievement of justice and freedom.
Clashes between thousands of protesters and Sudanese security forces took place at the army headquarters, close to...
Reviewed by Giulia Conte
Translator Giulia Conte
Date of source: 1 May 2019
The NCW president participated in a discussion entitled: “The Egyptian Woman the Origin of the Tale”, where she mentioned the support of political administration for women's issues, and the ability of translating commitment to constitutional rights into effective strategies and operational...
Reviewed by Giulia Conte
Translator Giulia Conte
Date of source: 30 Dec 2019
Danon associated the political cartoon with Nazi propaganda of Der Stürmer newspaper, claiming that those images incite violence against the Jews. Ahead of a Security Council meeting on the Middle East, he also said to the reporters that anyone practicing anti-Semitism must be punished, whether...
Reviewed by Giulia Conte
Translator Giulia Conte
Date of source: 1 May 2019
The answer of the Muslim Brotherhood
The Muslim Brotherhood reacted with a statement on their website. “we will persevere in our work according to our peaceful and moderate thinking”. They also denied any relation with the violent attacks carried out by al-Qāʿidah and Islamic State fighters.
The...
Reviewed by Giulia Conte
Translator Giulia Conte
Date of source: 17 Apr 2019
Last March, Egyptian authorities released ʿAlāʾ ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ after sentencing him to 5 years in prison. However, he only got half of his freedom, for he had to surrender himself over to the authorities at 6 PM until 6 AM every day for 5 years, under what is called precautionary measures. This...
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 21 Apr 2019
The church strongly rejected the use of all kinds of violence against any human no matter their beliefs, gender, or nationality. It affirmed that it is praying for a world free of hatred and violence and that love and peace prevail throughout the earth.
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 22 Apr 2019
The organization said the Egyptian authorities refused to respond to repeated requests from member Curtis Doebbler to allow him to visit his detained clients in Egypt. It also said in a statement that the Egyptian government has increased its vicious campaign and pressure on civil society...
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 17 Apr 2019
In the past few hours, there have been reports of a wall of secrecy around a meeting between the leaders of the transitional military council and a joint Saudi-Emirati delegation that arrived in the country together with former head of deposed President ʿUmar al-Bashīr’s offices, Ṭāhā ʿUthmān al-...
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 14 Apr 2019
In 1938, the Church issued a list of bylaws for the personal status of Copts, including the following reasons for divorce:
1. Each of the spouses may request a divorce for the reason of adultery.
2 - If one of the spouses left Christianity, and the hope of him or her returning was lost.
3. If one...
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 22 Apr 2019
The Egyptian Network, Raṣṣd, was able to acquire information on the prisoner from various activists. Usāma came from the city of al-Maḥallah and had worked as a teaching assistant at Ṭanṭa University. They explained that his suicide was due to immense pressure and humiliation by the prison...
Reviewed by Chloe-Kate Abel
Translator Chloe-Kate Abel
Date of source: 18 Apr 2019
The Center for the Development of the Education of International and Foreign Students for study at Al-Azhar aims to prepare foreign students linguistically, legally, and culturally to enable them to continue their studies in higher education, enrich their culture in various fields, develop their...
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 16 Apr 2019
The Egyptian initiative has spotted 32 incidents of tension and sectarian violence at least since the beginning of the implementation of the church building law and until April, all related to the exercise of religious rites. The interventions of the various state institutions in the same period...
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 12 Sep 2019
Nina Tiglao, who is with Elias Santos one of the responsible people in charge for the prison visits within Maadi Community Church (MCC) picked me up around by 7:15AM, and then we took the road for Qanater. Nina had in her car another volunteer from MCC, Marina. She is a Dutch lady who has been...
Date of source: 1 Jul 2019
Date of source: 4 Jul 2019
Maḥmūd ʿIzzat became the acting supreme guide of the Brotherhood after the arrest of the former general guide, Muḥammad Badīʿ, on August 20, 2013.
ʿIzzat was born on August 13, 1944 in Cairo Governorate. He is a member of the Guidance Office of the group since 1981 and a professor at the Faculty of...
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 4 Jul 2019
The Christie's Auction hall announced on Thursday it will hold a sale of 32 Egyptian artifacts in London.
The foundation urged the international community and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to move and protect the Egyptian heritage.
For its part, the...
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 4 Jul 2019
St. Thomas the Apostle is one of the Twelve Apostles of Christ who had concise passages in the Gospel that left its mark to this day in the Christian faith.
It is noteworthy that the Chaldean Catholic community in Egypt has existed since 1890. "Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral" was built in Heliopolis...
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 6 Jul 2019
Dr. Māyā Mursī thanked the Minister of Military Production, Dr. Muḥammad al- ʿAṣṣār , and Dr. Maḥmūd Ṣaqr, President of the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, for the adoption of the project for the extraction of active substances from aromatic plants and the transformation of...
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 18 Apr 2019
Dr. Muḥīy al-Dīn ʿAfīfī, General Secretariat of the Islamic Research Academy, said that the series is also really interested in the aspect of the family and society. The series focuses on a variety of family issues, including: the disintegration of the family and its social effects, the reasons...
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 17 Apr 2019
Darwīsh said the meeting with the Armenian ambassador was fruitful, especially as the two countries share a common history and historical relations since ancient times and that the Armenian ambassador was also very happy with his first visit to the Egyptian parliament. He added that Minister of...
Reviewed by Rafīq Barakāt
Translator Rafīq Barakāt
Date of source: 6 Jul 2019
Al-Azhar affirmed its rejection of all acts of violence and terrorism that have nothing to do with Islam in any way, and that attacks on places of worship or on any person, whatever religion, creed or race, are one of the most heinous crimes requiring the maximum punishments in the world. It added...
Reviewed by Xavier Owen
Translator Xavier Owen
Date of source: 6 Jul 2019
"The explosion took place yesterday evening at the Muhammadiyya mosque in Khak-e-Ghariban area in the provincial capital of Ghazni while worshipers attending evening prayers," provincial spokesman Arif Noor said. He added that the explosion - which no side has yet claimed responsibility for - was...
Reviewed by Xavier Owen
Translator Xavier Owen
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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.