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Date of source: 11 Sep 2023
Grand Imām of al-Azhar and Chairman of the Muslim Council of Elders, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, said that the participation at the international peace forum in Berlin reflects al-Azhar’s keenness on keeping interfaith dialogue alive and opening up new channels of communication.
Dr. Ṭayyīb attended ‘The...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 10 Sep 2023
Grand Imām of al-Azhar and Chairman of the Muslim Council of Elders, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, met with German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on Sunday, September 10, in Berlin to discuss ways of fighting the growing Islamophobia in Europe and animosity against Islam and Muslims in general.
Dr....
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 14 Sep 2023
The Coptic Catholic Church shows great interest in the youth sector by holding courses on future leaders and the empowerment of young people from all segments of society through the teaching of certain handicrafts.
Father Kyrillus Naẓīm, the official in charge of the Diakonia Development Office at...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 14 Sep 2023
Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church expressed solidarity with and prayers for Morocco and Libya, where devastating natural disasters have left people killed or wounded. He praised Egypt’s stance, which was supportive of “the brothers in this predicament.”
The pope made the statements...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 9 Sep 2023
Grand Muftī Dr. Shawqī ʿAllām said that the development of social, behavioral, and intellectual levels in Islamic societies has changed the patterns of communication within society, and that this includes religious discourse, which is part of the societal discourse in general.
“The institutions...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 12 Sep 2023
President of the Protestant Churches of Egypt, Dr. Andrēa Zakī, said the United Arab Emirates has become a haven that embraces the values of coexistence as well as a symbol of amity, peace, and religious tolerance in the Arab region.
“The Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS)...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 16 Sep 2023
For the first time in 70 years, since the July 23, 1952 revolution, the Jews of Egypt celebrated Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
Majda Hārūn, the head of the Jewish community in Egypt, delivered a speech on the occasion before dozens of the community members.
Most Jews had left Egypt after the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 19 Sep 2023
A fatwa (religious edict) secretary at Dār al-Iftā’, Shaykh Muḥammad Kamāl, said that fasting on the day of the mūlid (the Prophet Muḥammad’s Birthday) is permissible from the perspective of the Islamic sharīʿa.
“There is no problem with fasting on the day of the mūlid because we seek God’s...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 19 Aug 2023
In one of his shows, U.S. comedian and actor Chris Rock, who was once hit by Will Smith during an Oscar awards ceremony, addressed the statements made by a U.S. police official regarding the killing of Afro-Americans by police gunfire.
The policeman had said that wrongdoers and violators amongst...
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Date of source: 9 Sep 2023
Lebanon’s Supreme Islamic Sharīʿa Council extended the tenure of Grand Muftī Shaykh ʿAbd al-Laṭīf Diryān for an additional five years. His term was supposed to expire in one and a half years, which is when he reaches the legal age of 73, but this extension has allowed him to stay in his post until...
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Date of source: 3 Sep 2023
Ben Ezra is one of the Egypt's oldest synagogues and was reopened by Prime Minister Muṣṭafā Madbūlī after more than two years of restoration work.
Archeologist Muḥammad ʿAbdo said that during the period of restoration, the Jewish house of worship was shut down due to the risk of the ceiling...
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Date of source: 7 Sep 2023
In the town of Shibīn al-Kōm in al-Minūfīya governorate, there is a store that sells the sweets of al-Mūlid al-Nabawī (the Prophet Muḥammad’s Birthday) that is owned by three Coptic brothers.
Their father was very fond of sweets and consequently decided to seek the help of his three sons in...
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Date of source: 9 Sep 2023
Under the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmed al-Ṭayyīb, the Muslim Council of Elders strongly condemned two terrorist attacks that took place in northeastern Mali, which left several people killed or wounded.
The council stated their “categorical rejection of terrorist actions that clash with the...
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Date of source: 7 Sep 2023
Al-Azhar’s faculty of Uṣūl al-Dīn (theology) in Ṭanṭā is holding the third international conference on the efforts of Islamic institutions in handling intellectual and social issues in today’s world.
The event will convene in association with the Islamic Research Academy under the auspices of the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 8 Sep 2023
Governor of Asyūṭ, Maj. General ʿIṣām Saʿd al-Dīn, ignored all the requests presented by the Dayrūṭ and Ṣinbū Parish to get a license to rejuvenate the Anbā Karās Church, which was burnt down in April when a fire consumed the entirety of the wooden building.
Five months have passed since the fire...
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Date of source: 9 Sep 2023
Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmed al-Ṭayyīb, offered his sincerest condolences to King Moḥammed VI of Morocco and the Moroccan people after a deadly earthquake struck several provinces and cities in the North African country and left thousands of victims killed or wounded.
Al-Azhar expressed “full...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 6 Sep 2023
Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church urged young people to devote their energy to God and warned of extravagance and of affairs outside wedlock. He said, “Life is like a bank, where you get what you deposit.”
“The church is stressing the purity of the youth in observance of the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 7 Sep 2023
Secretary-general of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), Priest Rifʿat Fikrī, said that President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī was transparent in his words and actions before and after he began his term. He explained that this could be seen in his repeated interest in the construction of churches...
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Date of source: 4 Sep 2023
On Monday (September 4), Dr. Sāmī Fawzī, Archbishop of the Province of Alexandria for the Episcopal/Anglican Church in Egypt, inaugurated the languages department at the Minūfīya Episcopal School.
Dr. Fawzī toured the eight languages department classes, in addition to science and computer labs. The...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 4 Sep 2023
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī was one of the greatest imāms of Egypt, known for his scholarly contributions to Islam, such as Tafsīr al-Jalālayn , in addition to other books related to the rules of the Qurʾān.
Suyūṭī was born in the southern Egyptian province of Asyūṭ in September 1445, corresponding with...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 16 Jun 2023
Followers of the top Ṣūfī cleric, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī, went in great numbers into the mountainous valley of Ḥumaythira, in the city of Marsā ʿAlam, to visit his mausoleum.
The celebrations are usually held annually at the end of the hijrī calendar month of Dhī al-Qiʿda or the beginning of Dhī...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 11 May 2023
Hundreds of followers of the different Ṣūfī Orders celebrated the mūlid (birthday anniversary) of the al-ʿĀrif Billāh al-Sayyid Aḥmed al-Badawī in squares near al-Aḥmedī Mosque in the city of Ṭanṭā, the capital of al-Gharbīya province.
The celebrations of the al-Mūlid al-Rajabī (the minor mūlid),...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 7 Sep 2023
On September 3, 2013, Amman hosted dozens of guests from all over the world upon an invitation from King ʿAbdullāh II of Jordan to attend the conference on challenges facing Arab Christians, in which the monarch stressed that, “Defending the Arab Christian identity is not a luxury, but a duty.”
In...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 16 Aug 2023
The Higher Presidential Committee of Church Affairs in Palestine (HCC) urged the representatives and heads of churches, as well as the international community, to take whatever measures necessary to condemn Israel’s crimes and encroachments on the Christians’ sanctities and properties in Palestine...
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Date of source: 31 Aug 2023
Pope Tawāḍrūs of the Coptic Orthodox Church resumed a series of short mass prayers that handled part of Chapter 30 of the Book of Deuteronomy and Chapters 11-20 from the Book of Numbers, referring to the short prayers the church performs after the Gregorian Mass, which are called “Asceticism for...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 31 Aug 2023
Some Western nations, like Sweden and Denmark, consider the insult to the Prophet Muḥammad and the burning of copies of the Holy Qurʾān as a sign of freedom of expression to boast about as a democratic pattern, but would strongly criminalize any media or channels of expression attacking...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 29 Aug 2023
What freedoms of opinion and expression were gained in Europe, and the West in general, since the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, published cartoons insulting the Prophet Muḥammad in 2005?
Was their freedom enhanced? Was Islam damaged? Did thousands of Muslims quit their faith to embrace new...
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Date of source: 2 Sep 2023
In Iraq, Christianity is the second largest religion in the number of followers after Islam, and is followed by other religions like the Sabians, or Sabaeans, Shabaks, Yazidis, Kakais, Bahais, Shikhis, and Zoroastrians.
Christianity is acknowledged as a religion in the Iraqi constitution, which...
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Date of source: 2 Sep 2023
Under the supervision of the church’s media and culture sector, the Episcopal/Anglican Church in Egypt launched electronic services for people with hearing and speech problems.
The project was carried out over six months, and the service was made available at the Jesus Light of the World Church in...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 30 Aug 2023
Whether North European countries stopped licensing the burning of copies of the Holy Qurʾān, or any other holy book, or not, or whether the UN adopted an agreement banning contempt of others’ sanctities and beliefs, or not, this disgraceful act is a shame on the authorities that protect it!
The act...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 17 Aug 2023
The Muslim Council of Elders, chaired by Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, rejected the desecration of copies of the Holy Qurʾān by “some extremists” and the following assaults on churches in Pakistan, which were also committed by “some extremists.”
The council’s secretary-general,...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 29 Aug 2023
On Tuesday evening (August 29), Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church attended the premiere of the movie al-Tilmīdh, screened at the theater of Anbā Rūwīs at the St. Mark Cathedral in al-ʿAbbāsīya.
The movie is the biography of St. Tādrus, the student of St. Anbā Bākhūmyūs, who was the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 29 Aug 2023
On Tuesday (August 29), Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church attended the official inauguration of the movie al-Tilmīdh, screened at the theater of Anbā Rūwīs at the St. Mark Cathedral in al-ʿAbbāsīya. The movie focuses on the biography of St. Tādrus, the student of Anbā Bākhūmyūs, who...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 30 Aug 2023
New York Mayor, Eric Adams, officially announced that Muslims can now broadcast the adhān (calls to prayer) in the city through loudspeakers on Fridays and at sunset during the holy month of Ramadan, without having to seek permission from the city's local authorities.
In a press conference, Adams...
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Date of source: 28 Aug 2023
The prices of ʿUmra (lesser pilgrimage) of al-Mūlid al-Nabawī (the Prophet Muḥammad’s Birthday) of the year 2023 range between EGP25,000 to EGP28,000 (roughly $809 to $609) as the most affordable rates, revealed Ḥusām Muḥammad, a travel agent.
“A higher level of the ʿUmra could go up to EGP40,000-...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 24 Jul 2023
The Coptic Catholic Church took part in the 10th annual canon law conference of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the Jordanian resort area of the Dead Sea.
The Coptic Catholic Church was represented by a delegation of priests who attended the inaugural mass led by His Beatitude, Cardinal...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 30 Nov 2022
A senior scholar at Dār al-Iftāʾ, Dr. Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Samīʿ, said that smoking is ḥarām (religiously impermissible) and that working for companies selling cigarettes and tobacco is a sin.
“If it is possible for someone working in a tobacco company to find another job that would bring an income for...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 4 Jul 2023
Al-Azhar Fatwā Global Center released a sharīʿa perspective study on smoking and its harms, asserting that the rules of pure Islam had recommended everything useful and banned everything harmful.
It was clearly proven that smoking was harmful when the World Health Organization (WHO) published a...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 20 Mar 2019
Four centuries have passed amidst differences among doctrines and scholars of fiqh (jurisprudence) regarding whether smoking was ḥalāl (religiously permissible) or ḥarām (religiously impermissible), but science tipped the scale in favor of impermissibility when it indicated its effects on human...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 24 Aug 2023
Grand Muftī Shawqī ʿAllām said that some people think that freedom would mean that religions, divine books, prophets, and sanctities should be insulted and that these people would have no reservations about hurting the feelings of millions of Muslims – and even non-Muslims.
“Freedom is a right that...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 19 Jun 2023
Salman Rushdie is a British writer and novelist of Indian descent, born on June 19, 1947. He rose to fame when he won the Booker Prize for his 1981 novel ‘Midnight’s Children’, considered his best novel yet.
However, the book ‘Satanic Verses’ is the one that made Rushdie famous all over the world,...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 31 Aug 2023
Secretary-General of the Islamic Research Academy, Dr. Naẓīr ʿAyyād, praised the role and constant efforts by Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad Ṭayyīb, to promote an enlightened religious discourse and counter hate speech.
He also praised the ‘important role’ played by the Egyptian Family House...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 11 Aug 2023
Islamic preacher Muʿiz Masʿūd said he did not like to think about any type of fame, except the one with sublime principles and ethics, adding that fame has offered him an opportunity for ṣūfī mysticism.
“Fame has given me a chance to contemplate the Book of Wisdom by the Muslim spiritualist Ibn...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 13 Aug 2023
Egyptian Christians are still waiting for the endorsement of a unified personal status law, which is a constitutional right that the Egyptian parliament has not taken heed of since the 2014 constitution was approved.
Christian citizens in Egypt pushed the draft law to the agenda of the national...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 5 Aug 2023
Today (Saturday, August 5), the Greek Orthodox Church is celebrating the Transfiguration of Christ. The Holy Book tells how Jesus, after announcing his Passion to his Disciples, “took with him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There he was...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 12 Aug 2023
Nādir Shukrī, a journalist specialized in Coptic affairs, confirmed that Maryam Samīr, an assistant professor at the University of al-ʿArīsh, North Sinai governorate, was safe.
[EDITOR’S NOTE:
Maryam Samīr had disappeared on July 30, 2023. Her father said he received a phone call from an unknown...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 10 Aug 2023
On Thursday, the Virgin Mary Church, at its monastery in Drunka in the Asyūṭ governorate, announced an initiative to sell food and drinks inside the church at affordable prices as part of the annual celebrations of the Virgin Mary Fasting, falling on August 7-22.
Thousands of Copts nationwide went...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 12 Aug 2023
Every year, August is marked by the Copts’ great celebration of St. Mary, which began on August 7 and runs until August 22.
Many Egyptians go to churches and monasteries named after the Virgin Mary to seek intercession and ask Her for help and blessings, ending their poverty, and bestowing joy on...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 10 Aug 2023
Egypt’s ambassador to Germany, Amīn Ḥassān, attended the funerary prayers for Anbā Mīshāʾīl, Bishop of South Germany and Abbot of St. Antonius Monastery of the Coptic Orthodox Church, in Kröffelbach.
The funerary ceremony was carried by the TV station Me Sat.
“We regret the departure of Anbā Mīshā’...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 10 Aug 2023
The Catholic Church is celebrating the anniversary of the departure of Saint ʿAbdel-ʾAḥad (Dominic), the priest and founder of Dominican Catholicism in the world.
The name Dominic is from the Latin root Dominicus, which means, ‘the worshipper on al-ʾAḥad’ (Sunday), also known as Abdel-ʾAḥad, a name...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 29 Jul 2023
Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church is marked with an openness to other churches and relations of amity and partnership with them. This has helped to strengthen the bonds of friendship among the different churches.
1. The visit he made to the Vatican on May 10-18, 2013 was the first...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 24 Jul 2023
President of the Protestant Community in Egypt, Dr. Andrēa Zakī, said that support for ecumenical activities is a priority in order to achieve coexistence.
He added that 90% of the activities of the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS) are inside Egypt to serve Egyptians,...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 13 Aug 2023
Dr. Ibrāhīm Najm, an advisor to the Muftī of the Republic and the official spokesman of Dār al-Iftāʾ (Iftāʾ House), announced that Grand Muftī Dr. Shawqī ʿAllām obtained another one-year term in office.
“We pray to God to help Dr. Shawqī ʿAllām to shoulder this responsibility,” Najm added.
ʿAllām...
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Date of source: 4 Aug 2023
Foreign ministry spokesman, Aḥmad Abū Zayd, said that Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Sāmiḥ Shukrī, received a phone call from his Danish counterpart, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, to discuss repeated incidents of the desecration of the holy Qurʾān and the crimes of contempt of religion that jeopardize peaceful...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 12 Aug 2023
The Muslim Council of Elders under Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, called for the need to work on developing the youths’ skills to play an active role in facing global challenges and achieving a more sustainable future.
On the occasion of World Youth Day, celebrated by the UN on August...
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Date of source: 11 Aug 2023
Al-Azhar’s Media Center announced the start of the second season of the international caricature and portraiture forum under the motto ‘Empowerment of Women’ on August 11-September 10, 2023 under the auspices of Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb.
The event falls within al-Azhar’s message...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 5 Sep 2023
The first scholarly forum on Imām al-Shāfʿī and his school of thought was held at the Faculty of Islamic and Arabic Studies for Girls at al-Azhar University in Banī Sūwayf, according to the faculty dean, Dr. Ḥanān ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.
“The forum, under the auspices of Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 31 Jul 2023
A professional professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in al-Minyā University has sculpted a statue of the Virgin Mary to decorate the route of the Holy Family in the city of Drunka in the Asyūṭ governorate.
Dr. Jirjis al-Jāwalī, a professor of field sculpting, told al-Waṭan that Anbā Yūʾānnis,...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 19 Aug 2023
“A Reading Family … A Rising Nation” is the motto of the summer book fair 2023 that started its cultural activities in the area of al-Raml, central Alexandria, where 50 Egyptian, Arab, and foreign publishing houses took part.
Governor Muḥammad al-Sharīf, who inaugurated the event, said Alexandria...
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Date of source: 25 Jun 2023
Veteran journalist Muʾnis al-Zuhayrī took to social media to express his anger, writing, “You have insulted the idea, the value, the content, and Jamāl ͑Abd al-Nāṣir, who established the radio station in 1964. Stop the ads in the Holy Qurʾān Broadcast.” He was referring to the state of the Holy...
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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.