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Date of source: 28 Dec 2015
Makārem Shirāzi wrote that Al-Azhar has been a “bright spot” in the history of Islam, but he said that recent activities risk a “deviation at Al-Azhar from its moderate path”. [Arash Karāmi, AL Monitor, Dec. 28, 2015] read full text
Date of source: 28 Dec 2015
In the statement disclosed to Al-Yawm al-Sābi`, Bishop `Azīz said that the five Christian denominations agreed on 90% of the articles drafted for non-Muslims, in regard of engagement and definition of the matrimonial consent, while every Church keeps to its own rituals and traditions with regard to...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 27 Dec 2015
President Al-Sisi has met on Saturday the 21-year-old Yazidi girl Nadia Murād who had been held for three months in Iraq by ISIS as a sex slave. [Ghāda Barīk, Misr al-`Arabyyia, Dec. 27, 2015] read article in Arabic
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 27 Dec 2015
Al-Misriyun newspaper monitored the 8 most prominent initiatives during 2015:
1.Al- Ash`al initiative: "Reset the list of MB prisoners to zero"
Former assistant to Egypt's minister of foreign affairs and one of the candidates nominated for the presidency, Dr. `Abdallah al- Ash`al called for the...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 27 Dec 2015
Dr. Jibrāʾīl further explained that the latest inciting fatwa came yesterday when Sāmiḥ ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Ḥammūda of the Salāfī Call prohibited Muslims of congratulating Christians on the occasion of the birth of Jesus.
Jibrāʾīl stated that such fatwas incite sectarian strife, and should be subject to...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 25 Dec 2015
Christian groups have agreed on 90 percent of the articles in proposed regulations for Christians' “personal status”, said a source in the Coptic Orthodox Church, adding that a final document could be achieved after Christmas celebrations. [Author not mentioned, Egypt Independent, Dec. 25, 2015]...
Date of source: 25 Dec 2015
“According to Article 2 of the UN Convention On Enforced Disappearance, al-Barādʿī further explained, “enforced disappearance" is considered to be the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups of persons acting with the...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 25 Dec 2015
The training comes within the framework of a campaign against torture by raising the lawyers awareness in providing legal aid to the victims of violations, in particular for civilians who are detained or held as prisoners.
The training, which plans to form groups of various awareness fields, aims...
Date of source: 24 Dec 2015
In a speech marking Mawlid al-Nabī, the anniversary of Prophet Muḥammad’s birth, President Sīsī said that everyone should have the freedom to choose what religion and belief to follow without fear. President Sīsī said that Islam calls for peaceful unity between different religions and beliefs and...
Date of source: 24 Dec 2015
In a report issued on Tuesday, the ECRF said that the Egyptian security services, including the National Security Service run by the Ministry of Interior, are involved in the kidnapping of citizens, holding them in secret places in different Egyptian governorates. [Author not mentioned, Middle East...
Date of source: 24 Dec 2015
In that respect, EOHR repeated and reaffirmed its condemnation to these terrorist acts, as “they are a clear violation of rights and freedoms,” according to the Organization. EOHR further implored the government to intensify efforts to combat terrorism, on the military, security, cultural, and...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 23 Dec 2015
In a statement he disclosed to MENA, Al-Zahhār said Muslims, in particular during the Fatimid era, showed great respect to the festivities of Egyptian Christians during their new year and Christmas celebrations to the point that Christian festivities were considered national holidays for the entire...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 23 Dec 2015
According to the different calendars, the denominations follow, the Christmas celebration will start on 24th December to end on the 8th of January of the new year 2016.
The Patriarch of the Egyptian Catholic Church, Ibrahīm Ishāq, will lead Christmas Eve mass on Thursday at the Virgin Lady Church...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 23 Dec 2015
In his holidays wishes addressed to the Coptic Catholic, Coptic Evangelical, and Episcopal Churches, ʿAllām prayed that these holidays would further strengthen the bonds of love and harmony between the two wings of Egypt, Muslims and Christians, emphasizing that Christians are brothers and sisters...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 22 Dec 2015
The victims have been detained since their arrest without their place of detention being revealed, according to a NCHR source.
The head of the NCHR's complaints office, Nāser Amīn, said the council gathered the 101 names based on complaints filed by their families since May 2015.
The NCHR has sent...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 22 Dec 2015
According to the organizers of the protest, the protest came to oppose a new law issued by the minister of justice that “legalizes touristic marriages,” and to oppose all the types of violence that women are exposed to in shapes and forms, according to the protestors.
Earlier this month, the...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 22 Dec 2015
Following the removal of Muhammad Mursi from the presidency, a committee was elected to run the group’s affairs in Egypt. When the committee started to move away from the Brotherhood’s traditional non-violent position, the established leadership sought to re-establish control.
Montasser (which is...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 21 Dec 2015
`Abdo apologized to Muslim women, explaining that Al-Bukhāri's defamation of women contains also a misinterpretation of men of being maintainers of women, as men are preferred over women because of what men spend to support women from their wealth, whereas according to `Abdo, maintaining and...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 21 Dec 2015
According to the Coptic activist and coordinator of The Coalition of Egypt's Copts, Fādi Yūsuf, the year 2015 in general is considered a flicker of hope for Egyptian Christians, witnessing an improvement in the relation between the Church and the State on what regards the measures taken by the...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 21 Dec 2015
Egypt's President `Abd al-Fattāh al-Sisi stressed on Monday that no one is above accountability when it comes to human rights violations, in comments made at a meeting in Cairo with the head of Egypt’s semi-governmental National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) Muhammad Fāyeq [Author not mentioned,...
Date of source: 20 Dec 2015
In his address, 'Christians in the Middle East: Light in darkness, hope in despair', Bishop Angaelos spoke of how the west is only just realizing there is a problem: “The world seems suddenly be waking up to the fact that there is a problem in the Middle East.” [Hannah Tooley, Premier, Dec. 20,...
Date of source: 20 Dec 2015
In his time line on the online social network facebook , Mansūr calls on Muslims to an in-depth reading of the written ministerial briefing, which was commissioned two years ago, and released last Thursday on the Muslim Brotherhood reflects the historical anti-Muslim stance of the UK. It [the...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 20 Dec 2015
Dr. Nossair is professor of Comparative Jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University. She is also a member of the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs Born in the Mūsha village of Assiut, the 75-year old Islamic scholar was the first girl of her village to insist on accomplishing her educational path until...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 20 Dec 2015
Dr. Nossair is professor of Comparative Jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University. She is also a member of the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs Born in the Mūsha village of Assiut, the 75-year old Islamic scholar was the first girl of her village to insist on accomplishing her educational path until...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 17 Dec 2015
While Egypt has a long and diverse history of immigration from Africa, the Middle East and even Europe, Chinese immigrants are still a relatively recent and rare phenomena on the Nile. Over the past ten to fifteen years, however, fuelled through the economic rise of China and consequently the...
Date of source: 15 Dec 2015
Date: Saturday January 16 – Application with passport information needed before January 10!!
Departure 7.00 am from St. John’s Church, crossing Road 17 with sharia Port Said, Maadi
Costs: 250 EgP per person, including air conditioned bus, drinks, snacks, lunch, clearances, translations,...
Date of source: 15 Dec 2015
Al-Jibāli added, that the states who finance Dā`esh (ISIL) are known, and that the alleged alliance opens the way to a Sunni alliance versus a Shi`a one, and eventually “ignites a war in the region, which would only serves the Zionist ideology,” according to Al-Jibāli.
She pointed further that...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 15 Dec 2015
Sāwīris stressed that he has come back to his homeland Egypt, even though the Muslim Brotherhood did not want him to return and had even listed his name on position 4 among the people MB was planning to assassinate.
Sāwīris added that the Egyptian Christians enjoy their rights of citizenship, in...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 15 Dec 2015
As of December, CPJ claims that 23 Egyptian journalists are imprisoned, the highest figure for Egypt since the committee began recording, while the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) says the figure is as high as 63. The Egyptian Journalists’ Syndicate statistics indicate 32...
Date of source: 14 Dec 2015
Upon the government's cancellation of an event, at which he was scheduled to talk on the conspiracy theory last Thursday in the northern city of Alexandria, the renowned Egyptian writer, novelist and political activist said that the “The Egyptian Government is trying to silence me.”
The author of...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 14 Dec 2015
Tal`at Shabīb used to work in a bazaar for tourists. The Egyptian man in his 40s was sitting in a coffee shop when the police arrested him in late November for possession of Tramadol, a drug commonly used for recreational purposes in Egypt.
The events that took place after he was taken into custody...
Date of source: 14 Dec 2015
Ismā`īl al-Iskandarānī, an award-winning investigative journalist, is likely to be held until at least the end of December given the extension, his wife Khadīja Ja`far said on Monday.
The extension was announced last Thursday, days before Al-Iskandarānī's current detention period was due to end. [...
Date of source: 13 Dec 2015
Infuriated about the Shaikh's discourse, a number of Islam scholars and imams claimed that such sermon throws the country back to the time when mosques were misused as political platforms.
Former deputy minister of endowments, Sayyed `Abbūd confirmed that the fundamental task of mosques' tribunes...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 13 Dec 2015
The heads of various Coptic organizations attended a UN minority rights forum in Geneva, Switzerland, during which they condemned Egypt's blasphemy law, claiming it is exploited against the Copts.
The number of blasphemy prosecutions-in which people convicted of offending religions are sent to jail...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 13 Dec 2015
Ishāq pointed out that these amendments are one of the major milestones of the NCHR in the year 2015.
Ishāq strongly denounced practices of violence against women under the names of religion, customs and traditions, urging to the compliance with international treaties that provide women's equality...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 12 Dec 2015
Christians and Muslims have often discussed Jesus, similarities and differences but the discussion is rarely about the Holy Spirit. Keith Black, teacher of physics and mathematics, most recently at the Maadi Community School in Maadi, Cairo, presented with his wife Morag two films of Nicky Gumbel...
Date of source: 12 Dec 2015
Egyptian photojournalist Mahmūd Abū Zaid, better known as Shawqān, appeared in court Saturday for the first time after more than 850 days of being detained without charge.
The Cairo Criminal Court adjourned the photojournalist's trial to 6 February, citing lack of space in the dock for hundreds of...
Date of source: 12 Dec 2015
Prominent writers Muhammad Salmāwi and Sūn` Allāh Ibrāhīm attended the hearing, Nāji tweeted.
The Association for Freedom of Thought And Expression said prosecutors questioned during the trial if the “description of genitals” can be considered creativity, saying “porn films are more creative.” [...
Date of source: 12 Dec 2015
Tourism Minister Hīshām Za`zū` held a meeting on Thursday 10/12/2015 with Bishop Bōla of Tanta [Diocese] to discuss a new initiative to promote domestic tourism, launched by [Coptic Orthodox] Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark.
Under the slogan “my country is great”, the new...
Date of source: 9 Dec 2015
According to the UN, over 99% have been victims of sexual harassment which often takes place on public transport or in cabs.
But a new car service driven by women, and accepting only female passengers, is promising a secure way to travel in the Egyptian capital. [Milena Veselinovic, CNN, Dec. 9,...
Date of source: 7 Dec 2015
The root of the controversy is the Church’s obstinate stance concerning visiting the sacred land, which dates back to Pope Kyrollos VI, the 116th pope of the Coptic Church, who banned such visits following the 1967 war. Pope Kyrollos' decision was bolstered by Pope Shenūda III (the 117th pope), who...
Date of source: 7 Dec 2015
Dr. Mohyī al-Dīn `Afīfi, Secretary General of the Islamic Research Academy and head of the Family House Committee for religious discourse , said, that a training program started three years ago to encourage the exchange of relations between imams and priests, to promote the peaceful coexistence and...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 7 Dec 2015
And we should be even more alerted when the center says that there are a total of 63 cases of extrajudicial killings, 10 cases of involuntary manslaughter, 42 cases of torture, 13 cases of collective torture, 12 cases of ill-treatment, 75 cases of medical negligence, 40 cases of forced...
Date of source: 6 Dec 2015
In Egypt last week, a hornets nest of reactions surrounded Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II's decision to go to Jerusalem (Al-Quds for Muslims) upon the death of the Coptic Church's second-in-command, Bishop Abraham, who was head of the Jerusalem and Near East Orthodox Diocese in Jerusalem since...
Date of source: 6 Dec 2015
According to the state's Central Agency For Public Mobilization and Statistic (CAPMAS), the rate of population increase in Egypt reaches a five-fold number when compared to a population rate increase in developed countries, and reaches double the increase in population rate surveyed in...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 6 Dec 2015
Hosted by the presenters of the TV program 'Intabihu ayuha al-sāda' (Watch Out [honorable] audience!), Mufīda Shīha and Mona `Abd al-Ghani, Al-Jallād called for deep reforms, and administrative restructurings to end the dilemma of media institutions. According to him, both the state-owned and...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 4 Dec 2015
Copts won 24 seats on the four winning lists, and 12 independent seats. [Author not mentioned, Egypt Independent, Dec. 4, 2015] read full text
Date of source: 4 Dec 2015
`Abd al-Latīf al-Mīniāwī, the author of the book and the former head of the news department at Egyptian State TV, says he revealed “what he was able to say at the time” of what he was privy to in his association with decision-making circles. [Walā' Hussain, AL Monitor, Dec. 4, 2015] read full text
Date of source: 3 Dec 2015
AL-Monitor spoke with the FEP's acting President `Essām Khalīl, who revealed the party's agenda in the parliament, and discussed legislative priorities and the party's stance toward calls for the amendment of the current constitution. [George Mīkha'īl, AL-Monitor, Dec. 3, 2015] read full text
Date of source: 3 Dec 2015
Thirty-six co-defendants, who were condemned to death or life in prison by a lower court, will be retried along with Badī`, who has also been sentenced to death in a different case. They had been found guilty of plotting unrest from an 'operations room' in a Cairo protest camp in the months after...
Date of source: 2 Dec 2015
Yehia Salāh and Mustafa Ahmad stand accused of inciting violence and marches on 25 January 2016 through the pages, according to a Ministry of Interior statement. [Sāra al-Shaikh, Daily News Egypt, Dec. 2, 2015] read full text
Date of source: 2 Dec 2015
During a Wednesday press conference, Marwān said: “Videos are not enough to penalize candidates or prove anything and will be considered as evidence only when official reports are filed to the commission.” [Amīra al-Feqqi, Al-Bawāba News, Dec. 2, 2015] read full text
Date of source: 2 Dec 2015
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) observers reported several incidents of vote-buying, electoral propaganda, and directing voters in Sharqyia, Cairo, Daqahlyia, Damietta, Gharbiya, and Kafr al-Shaikh governorates during the run-off vote, which began on Tuesday and will conclude on...
Date of source: 1 Dec 2015
Iskandarānīwas returning from Germany, where he was delivering a number of lectures and seminars, security arrested him at the airport and interrogated him before referring him to the Supreme State Security Prosecution in Cairo. [Author not mentioned, Egypt Independent, Dec. 1, 2015] read full text
Date of source: 1 Dec 2015
The Church said in a statement issued on Sunday that Pope Tawadros II, head of the Coptic Church, rejects normalization and never met any officials, neither from the Israeli nor from the Palestinian side, during his visit to Jerusalem. [Author not mentioned, MENAFN, Dec. 1, 2015] read full text
Date of source: 1 Dec 2015
During the meeting, he announced that five policemen were sent to work in other police stations in various governorates after they were accused of torturing a citizen to death in Luxor last week. [Sāra al-Shaikh, Daily News Egypt, Dec. 1, 2015] read full text
Date of source: 30 Nov 2015
Anadolu news agency reported that Tawadros II travelled to Jerusalem in order to pay tribute to Jerusalem Archbishop Anba Abrahām who died last Wednesday. [Author not mentioned, MEMO, Nov. 30, 2015] read full text
Date of source: 28 Nov 2015
Al-Mūghāzī had leveled libel and defamation charges against Nūr al-Dīn on November 8. The `Agūza Prosecution called Nūr al-Dīn for investigation two days later, and spent three hours discussing the charges. [Nūrhān Fahmi, Daily News Egypt, Nov. 28, 2015] read full text
Date of source: 28 Nov 2015
"In light of enforced disappearances, tortures, repressive laws and unjust verdicts, do we seek to understand the concept of ‘State of law’ that begins and ends at human dignity and freedom? That’s absurd,” the Nobel Peace Prize winner said on Saturday. [Author not mentioned, Egypt Independent, Nov...
Date of source: 28 Nov 2015
Figures prepared by Al-Ahrām Center for Political and Strategic Studies (ACPSS) show that an estimated number of 100 Mubārak-era figures were able to beat their rivals by wide margins and qualify for the run-offs. [Author not mentioned, Ahram Online, Nov. 28., 2015] read full text
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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.