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Date of source: 15 Sep 2015
The ECHR's report further disclosed that while the SEC did not interfere, it was the Health Ministry that forbade the party from distributing medicines.
"The SEC should interfere and punish the party's candidates involved in these bribes. [Asmā´`Ali Badr, Al-Yawm al-Sābi`, Sept. 15, 2015] read...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 15 Sep 2015
Meanwhile, the ECHR expressed its concern on the appointment of Sherif Ismail, Egypt's Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Sources, with the task of forming the new cabinet, as the new PM “lacks the characteristics required for Egypt's needs in the aftermath of January 25 and June 30 Revolutions....
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 15 Sep 2015
`Abd al-`Āti also reviewed the developments of the political situation in Egypt since the June 30 Revolution, and the detailed stages of implementing the road map. He stressed the stability of the investment climate in Egypt and its huge investment opportunities, addressing the promising...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 15 Sep 2015
Al-`Absi presented a comprehensive report on last year's account statement , since the founding of the Assembly till the present day,highlighting the importance of active contribution in the coming phase of building the country, the development of development of its citizens, and the...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 15 Sep 2015
According to an undisclosed source who wants to remain anonymous, the Minya Criminal Court of Central Egypt had sentenced different verdicts from death sentences to the acquittal of 119 people who were accused of being members of the “terror Muslim Brotherhood Organization” or charged with “...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 14 Sep 2015
Radwān was arrested late Sunday and detained for 10 hours without charge. He said that he was randomly arrested along with nine others, and only three of them were released, Al-Shurūq newspaper reported. He told the newspaper that at 7:30 pm on Sunday, a number of people blocked his way and pulled...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 14 Sep 2015
EOHR renewed its demands to amend the current Protest Law that is guaranteed by international human rights treaties and conventions, and as stipulated in Article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on “Everyone's right to freedom and peaceful assembly and association”, as well as...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Al-Wasat Party: “We Disagree With The Muslim Brotherhood, But We Denounce Injustice Done Against It”
Date of source: 14 Sep 2015
He added, that the Party distanced itself from Mursi and his statement, however, it (the party) deems all injustice or means threatening to the revolutionary and detrimental to its gains”.
When asked on the participation in the upcoming parliamentary elections, Abu al-`Ela stressed that the Party...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 14 Sep 2015
The Egyptian workers were on their way back to Egypt, and that there are Egyptian Christians among the kidnapped, ANSA reports. Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not disclosed any statement so far that denies or confirms such news.
Taking advantage of Libya's civil strife, the IS ( Dā`esh in...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 14 Sep 2015
Jum`a highlighted the importance of national unity and cooperation between the Muslim and Christian religious institutions in the face of current challenges.
He also stressed the importance of dialogue to achieve security, safety and peace for all people.
`Īd al-Adha will be celebrated on Thursday...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 13 Sep 2015
The Egyptians have neglected their history, and its very essences forgotten or misunderstood. Their understanding of religion and of life have deteriorated, and despite the three Divine Messages, and despite tens of prophets and God's messengers, Egypt's present state of chaos, confusion and...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 13 Sep 2015
Al-Misriyun studied the patterns of isolation that occurred in the most prominent Egyptian families, due to their different ideological stances, not only since the January 25, but goes back to the time when the Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928, by one of the Al-Banna family members, Hassan al...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 13 Sep 2015
Al-Nūr Party:
created after the January 25 Revolution,has an ultra conservative Islamic ideology, and the first party that has been described as the political arm of the Salafi Call Society, Al-Da`wa al-Salafiya
the second political power in Egypt after winning 22% of the Peoples' Assembly in the...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 13 Sep 2015
However, in Qena and Qūs, the deadline for candidacy applications has been extended to September 15 after a recent court ruling on redrawing constituency boundaries concerning independent seats.
Supreme Elections Committee (SEC) spokesperson Omar Marawan said earlier that the elections will set to...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 11 Sep 2015
The presence of Christian Copts in the lists of the Salafi al-Nūr Party is a "necessary act" to which the leaders are required by the electoral law, and is within the constitutional requirements that the political parties must first fulfill in order to be admitted to the upcoming parliamentary...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 8 Sep 2015
Belonging to any kind of religious minority in a majority Muslim country like Egypt can be a challenge or even dangerous at times, but most Egyptians still insist that they have nothing against members of a different faith, that they have Coptic neighbours, that all people of the Book [way of...
Date of source: 7 Sep 2015
Yet a court in Egypt has found that my two colleagues and I are not legitimate journalists. Late last month the court decided that because we were not accredited with the Egyptian Journalists' Syndicate – the body that manages local media workers – we could not be described as journalists. [Peter...
Date of source: 6 Sep 2015
The Tablighi Jamaat in Egypt
With the Muslim Brotherhood and militant neo-fundamentalist groups like the recently established “Province of Sinai” dominating the Egyptian headlines, little attention is given to other forms of organized Islam within Egypt. One such group that is neglected- to an...
Date of source: 6 Sep 2015
Arab hip hop: From local inspiration to global revolution
Hip hop ain't dead, it never died, it just moved to the Middle East, where the struggle's still alive.
(Arabian Knightz – Uknighted State of Arabia)
The message from the song “Uknighted State of Arabia” by Egyptian rap crew Arabian Knightz...
Date of source: 6 Sep 2015
Da’wa is a duty for every Muslim. This might help non-Muslims to understand why conversations with Muslims who believe very strongly can sometimes feel like attempted conversions. There are also organized forms of da’wa, e.g. da’wa groups or da’wa offices. I visited one of these offices in Cairo's...
Date of source: 6 Sep 2015
Attorney Samīr Sabri had filed the suit claiming to resolve the NCHR as it has failed to denounce terror's attacks against security forces, thus ignoring crimes committed against the Egyptians' right for protection against terrorists. Sabri has further required the resolutio
Sabri confirmed that...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 6 Sep 2015
The lawyer has accused RNN, which operates on social media networks from Turkey, of spreading false news in Egypt and supporting the banned Muslim Brotherhood. [Author not mentioned, Al-Ahrām Online, Sept. 6, 2015] read full text
Date of source: 6 Sep 2015
The ruling, published by the state news agency MENA, said Muhammad Fahmī, a Canadian national, Peter Greste, an Australian journalist, and Bāher Muhammad, an Egyptian producer, were by default members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group, which Egyptian authorities consider a terrorist...
Date of source: 5 Sep 2015
The Hague. The new Egypt under General Al-Sisi is not exactly known as an example of democracy and progress. However, according to Emad Awny, a Coptic businessman and candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections, the situation in his country is definitely improving, for the Christian...
Reviewed by Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Translator Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Date of source: 4 Sep 2015
According to the Ministry's report, the cells had planned a terror attack, adding that the police was able to arrest the heads of the two terror organizations, Baraka Mahmūd Yūsuf Abu-Selēha and Khāled Qandīl Yūnis Fattūm, beside a number of the terror cell's members, Muhammad Shibl Mustafa al-...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 3 Sep 2015
Being the first among a number of other requirements for candidacy, nominees will have to submit medical reports on their health condition. Alongside with the candidates, many voters thrust their passage in the courts' corridors seeking the candidates' programs that would release them from the many...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 3 Sep 2015
In a Church statement disclosed by Bishop Rofa'īl, the secretary of the Holy Synod said that the Church strongly rejects the rhetoric of the protests, claiming that the organizers of the protests are motivated by personal interests.
Organizers of the protests explained that their demands are...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 3 Sep 2015
Aiming at fostering the development of a new ecclesial sensitivity to the risks associated with disorderly exploitation of national water resources, Pope Tawadros announced in his homily during the liturgy celebrated in the church of the Virgin Mary and St. Athanāsiūs, in the Cairo suburb of...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 2 Sep 2015
1.Background organizing parties:
1.1 Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU), Egyptian NGO founded in 2007.
Purpose is to create understanding between Egypt and the West, Muslims and Christians.
In 2008 CAWU organized the visit of a delegation of representatives of Dutch Christian and Muslim...
Date of source: 2 Sep 2015
Our NGO is the Center for Arab-West Understanding, registered as an Egyptian NGO in 2007. We cooperate in the Netherlands with the Stichting Arab-West Foundation. The two NGOs explicitly reject all violence as well as incitements to violence. We want people of very different backgrounds to meet...
Date of source: 30 Aug 2015
Those advocating the banning of religion from the political arenas, mainly focus on the banning of religiously-based political parties; but this is just a fraction of the bitter truth under which Egypt is suffocating now and for more than one thousand and four hundred years, namely, since the...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 30 Aug 2015
According to Fādī, the protestors are propagating lies and making the simpletons who are affected by the personal status law believe that “they have the solution for their problems”, he added.
In a statement released to Misr al-`Arabyyia, Yūsuf pointed out that these protestors did not get a permit...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 30 Aug 2015
However, the Salafis could not either support or keep silent when former Al-Azhar Shaikh, Dr. Mohammad Sayed Tantawi, upon a presidential request, issued a fatwa that ruled that the interest paid by conventional banks on deposits should be regarded as profits rather than usury or riba. TheSalafis...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 30 Aug 2015
Human rights and free speech advocates worldwide view the verdict as an undermining of the very freedom of expression and a massive restriction of press freedom. According to a statement released by the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, the three journalists and a number of the staff...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 28 Aug 2015
In a statement he released, the spokesman of SEC councilor Omar Marawan, stated that the Commission shall announce the time line of the election polls during the press conference, as well as a number of regulatory decisions on the subject. [No Author Mentioned, Al-Masry al-Yaum, A, August 28, 2015...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 28 Aug 2015
In a press release to Veto, Dr. Hassaballāh stated that he fully supports President Al-Sisi's proposal of a unified list of political parties and forces that are to participate in the parliamentary elections in order to keep unity and national lineup against parties affiliated with the Islamic...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 28 Aug 2015
Meanwhile, the Conservative Party had organized a number of preparatory meetings for coordinating among the civil parties who have joined the FLE alliance, such as The Call Of Egypt and The Independent Current Coalition among many other coalitions. [Muhammad Abu `Awad, Al-Yawm al-Sābi`, August 28,...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 28 Aug 2015
When asked on the extremist groups in Sinai declaring Egypt's peninsula an Islamic State and the reasons behind this declaration, 'Azīz commented that Dā´esh itself has never declared Egypt one of its caliphate, but the most active insurgent group, initially known as Ansār Bayt al-Maqdis (...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 27 Aug 2015
Pope Tawadros II will participate in the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross on September 27 in Ethiopia. His Holiness further announced that he will discuss the Egyptian people's concern on the Renaissance Dam project with Abune Matthias, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church during his...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 27 Aug 2015
Prisoners' families have submitted complaints to the NCHR on the miserable conditions inside the prison of Tora, more commonly known as Al-Aqrab (Scorpion) prison. Fayek declared that these complaints were not true, stating that systematic torture has ended in Egyptian prisons, however, he added: “...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 27 Aug 2015
Morsi and 10 further defendants have to stand trial in the case known in the media as the “Qatar files leak and espionage”. The ousted President and his aides are accused of leaking relevant national security documents to Qatar, beside further charges of illegally obtaining copies of intelligence...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 27 Aug 2015
According to the international rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW), the ratified anti-terror law has equipped the government with even greater powers to continue “stamping out its critics and opponents under its ever-expanding war on terrorism”, imposing harsh penalties, even death sentences for...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 27 Aug 2015
Back then, since the time Pope Kyrillos VI had consecrated him as General Bishop for Christian Education, Pope Shenūda III has on several attempts, tried to amend the articles of the 1938 code. When in 1971 he was enthroned as pope, Pope Shenūda III first act of his papacy was to issue the Papal...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 27 Aug 2015
In a telephone interview held during the TV program 90 Minutes, Emara said that the Youth Coalition includes Egyptian Christians and a number of youth from the civil community, as well as members from the Freedom and Justice Party. In response to the accusations that the Youth Coalition is pushed...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 26 Aug 2015
The Iranian website Asrma has published details on the official visit of the Delegation to the Iranian capital Teheran as well as other major Iranian cities. According to Egypty, the Shiite delegation explained the situation of the Egyptian Shiite minority on the social, economical, and political...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 18 Aug 2015
The appeal attorney Sa`īd `Abd al-Massīh, said that one new article should be added to the law draft in order to give it a legal shape before submitting it to the Coptic Orthodox General Congregational Council, known also as the Melli Council. He added that this additional article would exclude any...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 17 Aug 2015
The columnist tweeted on his twitter account, “on what concerns the building of a Hindus Temple in the UAE, let us run a referendum for building a mosque for the Shi`ites; and we will soon be able to detect the Dā`esh (ISIL) supporters living among us.”
Narendra Modi, India's prime minister lauded...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 14 Aug 2015
`Abd al-Hamīd, exposed further what he called the systematic violence practiced by the Muslim Brotherhood during the Rab`a sit-in and its dispersal, saying “the security forces moved to disperse the site, and called on the protesters through loudspeakers to leave the site, guaranteeing their safe...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 11 Aug 2015
The statement further disclosed that "The so-called Sunni Scholars conference did not produce any considerable jurisprudential diligence that can be subject to discussion and analysis, but rather it was dedicated to its allied political Islam currents of violence and extremism, and its supporting...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 10 Aug 2015
Derbāla, 58, died late Saturday following deterioration in his health in the high-security Al Aqrab (Scorpion) Prison outside Cairo.
Abu Se`da further stated that the ministry of interior has not yet responded to the request submitted by EOHR's general secretary, Mukhlis Qutb, for an investigative...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 9 Aug 2015
Sulaimān, who is member of the Coptic Orthodox General Congregation Council, stated that Pope Tawadros consulted the bishops of the Holy Synod on the new draft law, denying the alleged formation of a legal committee tasked with reviewing the law proposal of PM Mehleb's cabinet.
Counselor Munsif...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 8 Aug 2015
Despite the fact that the author Latīfa al-Zayyāt had written many literary works, her name was connected only to her great work Al-Bāb al-Maftūh that was published in 1960 and produced four years later for the movie screen, in the major characters performed by the Egyptian “lady of the screen”,...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 4 Aug 2015
In a statement disclosed to Al-Fajr, Anba Morqos said that, upon a decision of the Holy Synod, he was commissioned by Pope Tawadros II to create the programs for the channel, confirming that the objective of the channel is to stabilize the Coptic Orthodox identity in the children of the...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 2 Aug 2015
Excerpts of the book: The civilized stage of equality between men and women in the liberal western countries is not older than fifty years in the history of human civilization, whereas in one of the Ancient Egyptian marriage certificates, that dates back to the third millennium BC, the bridegroom...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 31 Jul 2015
In the Introduction of his memoirs,Muhammad Najīb wrote:
" After going through my personal diaries and after reading what I had previously published, I actually realized that they were right: I had not disclosed facts which I did not find appropriate to mention, and I had just neglected other...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 30 Jul 2015
During the interview he gave to the program 'yahdoth fi Misr' (going on in Egypt) on the MBC Misr Channel on Wednesday, al-Feqi praised President `Abd al-Fattāh al-Sisi's patriotism, describing him as 'a man who would devote his life for the welfare of Egypt'; according to al-Feqi, the current...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 29 Jul 2015
Egyptian President `Abd al-Fattāh al-Sisi is leading a coalition which wants a regional military task force to intervene in Libya and flush out the various transnational terrorist groups that have set up training, logistical and operational bases there. [No Author Mentioned, Al-Mūjaz, Jul., 29,...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 28 Jul 2015
According to the painter (who launched a campaign against al-Nabawi after he allowed the publishing of the Muslim Brotherhood founder's book, Sayed Qutb, 'Ashwaq'), interim PM Mehleb had asked the artists committee to be patient, promising it the reforms they expect to be introduced in Egyptian art...
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Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 27 Jul 2015
Al-Marzūqi further urged Egypt to seek an unavoidable national reconciliation, believing that this is the only path that is based on true democracy. “Sooner or later”, he added, “they [Egyptians] will sit together to meet a political solution, and better start now than later.”
The former Tunisian...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
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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.