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Date of source: 2 Aug 2019
The committee decided to suspend the ordination or acceptance of new monks in all the Coptic Orthodox monasteries in Egypt for one year beginning from August 2018. Since the year has ended by this month, it was revealed by sources that some monasteries have started accepting new monks based on...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 23 Dec 2019
During the meeting, Pope Tawāḍrūs praised the religious freedom in the United Arab Emirates where the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt owns several churches across the country and the Christians perform their religious rituals in complete freedom.
The Coptic Orthodox Church owns churches in most of...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 4 Aug 2019
According to the article, the service of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Australia began in 1969 in the Exarchate of Pope Kyrillos VI who delegated Father Mīnā Niʿmatallāh to perform the first mass prayer in Melbourne and then in Sydney.
In 1999, the Diocese of Melbourne was established and bishop...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 3 Aug 2019
During the visit, he met with Bishop Mārkūs of Damietta and visited St. Dimyāna Monastery and the grave of bishop Bīshūy the late Metropolitan Bishop of Damietta.
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 4 Aug 2019
Tomorrow, the events will see the participation of Bishop Theofilos [Thāʾūfīlus] of bishop Manfalūṭ as well as a large number of monks, priests and people from Asyūṭ. Moreover, the Children Choir of Asyūṭ’s Mār Jirjis Church will sing a collection of spiritual hymns.
The events of the Spiritual...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 25 Sep 2019
Steffen Seibert, spokesman of the federal German government, said that his country expects the Egyptian authorities to release those who were arrested after the demonstrations that took place last Friday without charges.
According to unconfirmed information, he added, about 1000 persons have been...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 25 Sep 2019
During the session, the minister talked about the importance of promoting women’s participation in the workforce and leadership positions, pointing out to the interest of Egypt’s Tourism Ministry in increasing female workforce in the tourism sector and providing an appropriate working environment...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 25 Aug 2019
Hajras reviewed the National Council for Women’s experience of integrating women with disabilities, starting with the fair representation of women with disabilities within the organizational structure of the Council in its board of directors, in its working committees, and in its administration...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 25 Aug 2019
Ḥamad praised the historical and strategic relationship between Palestine and Egypt, seeing it as constantly developing. She highlighted the importance of Egypt's role in supporting the Palestinian cause, preserving the national project, and adhering to its sponsorship of intra-Palestinian...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 6 Aug 2019
Prosecutors charged the defendants with joining a terrorist group working to prevent state institutions from operating properly and disrupting the constitution and law.
The Kuwaiti authorities announced earlier about the arrest of a "terrorist cell" linked to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. A...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 14 Aug 2019
According to church law, building a Coptic monastery requires the acquirement of the permission of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, signed by Pope Tawāḍrūs II being head of Egyptian monasteries as per what is stated in the list of monasteries issued by Pope Tawāḍrūs II in 2013. Thereby, those...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 14 Aug 2019
According to the Hebrew Channel VII website, the forum will be held on January 23, in the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem, during which remembrance of the Holocaust will be emphasized and the fight against anti-Semitism will continue. Attendees include French President Emmanuel Macron, German...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 14 Aug 2019
The ministry said in a press statement released on Wednesday that the answers touched on Israel’s occupation of Palestine, which has ingrained apartheid in the territory of the occupied state of Palestine, and on Zionism, which the delegation decried as a racist movement that is hostile to the...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 25 Sep 2019
According to the statement bishop Makāriyyūs, the General-Bishop of Minya and Abū Qurqāṣ, had led the inauguration ceremony and the divine mass prayer in the new church. The prayer was attended by the church Rev. Fr. Abānūb Munīr, more than a dozen priests and a large number of Copts.
Minya...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 9 Nov 2019
The celebration of the Prophet’s birthday is a time for people to get together in remembrance, praise the Prophet Muḥammad, give alms, fast, and pray. All of this is done to make known the love for the Prophet and the joy of this beloved day.
Buraydah al-Aslamī, one of the original followers of...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 9 Nov 2019
ʿAyād in an interview with Middle East News Agency on Saturday added that the Prophet’s life overflowed with bright moments. Immediately after arriving to Medina [al-Madīna al-Munawira], the Prophet worked to establish justice and equality for all peoples. He made the charter of Medina that urged...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 11 Nov 2019
The article shows different people reflecting on the celebration of this occasion.
On social media, Pastor Bandalīmūn Bushrā, a priest at a Roman Orthodox Church in Dumyāṭ, commented on his celebration of the holiday by distributing sweets, made especially for the celebration of the Prophet’s birth...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 18 Dec 2019
In a modest classroom at the African Teaching Training Network (ATTN), ordinary people gather to hear the professor’s thoughts and to actively participate in the discussion. They are from different countries across Africa.
On day one, Dr. Muthuka dives into how conflict can be defined, the three...
Date of source: 3 Jul 2019
The Arab Media Freedom Monitor said in a statement that June was a tough month for journalism in Egypt where Egyptian authorities have intensified its suppression of journalists in a way that surpassed expectations. On the early mornings of June 25th and 26th, Egyptian security forces conducted...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 8 Nov 2019
According to "Reporters Without Borders" yearly index of press freedom, Egypt ranked 163 out of 180 countries, dropping two ranks lower from its position of 161 in last year’s classification. This new classification is the result of the decision to block more websites in the press like Madā Miṣr,...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 23 Nov 2019
“Madā Miṣr” considered Zalaṭ’s arrest a new escalation in the Egyptian government’s campaign against journalism and furthermore demanded that the authorities release him immediately without any conditions.
Zalaṭ was arrested days after publishing an article on “Madā Miṣr,” citing two sources in the...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 15 Dec 2019
ʿImād started with two minutes of silence. It is, he said, important to build in moments of silence for reflection. Karam’s presentation came after a hectic series of presentations.
When we talk about world peace it is a difficult to obtain goal for any individual. We at IofC believe we should...
Date of source: 25 Nov 2019
The Commission also urged the Egyptian authorities to release all detainees and respond to the demands for political reform and taking steps towards religious freedom.
According to Mīnā Thābit, head of policy unit in the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, Egyptian activists saw the...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 12 Dec 2019
After an hour-drive across different neighborhoods surrounding the Egyptian capital, I found myself in front of the main gate of the prison, signaled by a big writing in Arabic “Manṭiqa al-sujūn al-Qanāṭir” (Area of al-Qanāṭir Prisons) on top of which the Egyptian tricolor flag waves.
Poncet,...
Date of source: 12 Dec 2019
During my journalism internship at the Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU) I contributed to Arab-West Report with eight articles, an article published for the Maadi Messenger and two academic papers:
Arab-West Report
On Conflict Resolution in Arab-Islamic Settings, Report on the conference...
Date of source: 11 Dec 2019
Professor Abdallah Schleifer is a prominent Middle East expert. I have interviewed him in December 2018 in his home in Cairo. This interview has been recorded and edited for readability. Prof. Schleifer has seen and approved this text before placement online.
Prof. Schleifer is the chief editor of...
Date of source: 10 Dec 2019
Although the subtitle of Winter Harvest is "Bob Dylan to Jalaluddin Rumi [Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī]" Shems Friedlander's latest book, is not "about" either Dylan or Rumi -- it is a progression of episodes in his life as described at the bottom of the cover as "Memories and Illuminations." Bob Dylan is a...
Date of source: 9 Dec 2019
The reception began with a brief tour of Prof. Schleifer's garden apartment whose walls are crowded with a plethora of framed letters from dignitaries, Islamic calligraphy, and an extensive library. In all they are a reflection of Prof. Schleifer's diverse life-experiences as well as his...
Date of source: 29 Oct 2019
Recently, he accompanied a group of foreign priests and nuns to the historic ʿAmrū Ibn al-ʿĀṣ mosque to learn some Islamic history. When they arrived to the mosque, they were surprised by a welcome party waiting outside. The visitors were astonished by the fact that Muslims were treating them so...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 5 Oct 2019
For years, Egypt has been trying to resolve this crisis, pouring billions of dollars into negotiations and research with Ethiopia and Sudan. However, a deal has still yet to materialize. Egypt depends on the Nile’s water for drinking and irrigation and has claimed its historical rights as...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 5 Nov 2019
Around 50 people from a number of churches and seminaries from several countries are participating in the conference. The pope opened the conference with a statement, discussing how important the conference and these meetings were so that churches could understand each other. Such a mutual...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 5 Nov 2019
The church was built a little before 1900. Constructed of mud brick and wood, it could not withstand the ravages of time. Due to the church's life-threatening condition, Copts have put up a tent in the school courtyard in order to hold religious services; however, on multiple occasions the tent...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 7 Nov 2019
The center has a wide variety of new titles present at the fair from “In the Footsteps of Christ” and “Modern Martyrs: The Martyrs of Libya and the Martyrs of St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church” to books by the late Pope Shinūdah III and books by Pope Tawāḍrūs II. The book fair will also showcase the...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 5 Dec 2019
A complete translation of the Dutch text in Pokrof with a few editorial changes made for greater ease of reading.
Bishop Bola [Būlā], president of the Clerical Council, responds to questions about marriage and divorce in a regularly featured program on a Coptic TV channel (Photo: C. Hulsman).
...
Date of source: 9 Sep 2019
Naṣr said that since President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī has taken office, he has supported the empowerment of women in all fields. For the first time in history, the ministry of Investments and International Cooperation was working on legislative reforms and investment policies for the economic...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 21 Sep 2019
Aljazeera’s live network channel “Aljazeera Mubasher” dominated the coverage of the protests and had journalists, Salīm ʿAzūz, and Nizār Qandīl, commenting live on what was happening. By midnight, it had over 50,000 viewers watching. Nevertheless, its main news channel didn’t mention much about...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 25 Sep 2019
Signers of the statement believe that the right of freedom expression and the freedom to assemble peacefully are amongst the essential human rights and that there are both local and international laws, safeguarding these rights. Signers of the agreements included rights organizations such as:-...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 26 Sep 2019
According to the guardian newspaper, the British author clarified that she will not allow translating her work in Hebrew "on the basis that there is no Israeli publisher who is completely untangled from the state." All the while, Benjamin Netanyahu promised to annex a third of the occupied West...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 23 Oct 2019
The plan includes to accommodate 64 churches and buildings, even though there are roughly 1235 churches and buildings that qualify under the law. Additionally, the cabinet agreed in Wednesday’s meeting to base decisions on issued recommendations from the ministerial engineering council’s meeting...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 17 Oct 2019
Reuters spoke with 5 women from Sudan, South Sudan, and Somalia, who detailed their encounters with sexual assault while in Cairo. The seventeen year South Sudanese woman said that strangers kidnapped her from her poor neighborhood and moved her to another area where she was imprisoned in an...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 1 Oct 2019
The head of the conference said that this conference was being held to recognize and confirm the importance of Coptic buildings and structures with their unique designs and decorations, which converge holiness, simplicity, depth, and beauty all at the same time.
Archelogist, Dr. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 6 Jul 2019
A new problem has emerged in Egypt in recent days. It is about the freedom of Christian women in general to change their religion to Islam and the consequent possibility of marriage to a Muslim and the transition from a Christian family to a Muslim family. This is the background of tensions...
Date of source: 6 Jul 2019
Date of source: 7 Aug 2019
Imān Abū ʿAṭā, the director of the organization Tell MAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks), which works to fight hate crimes directed at Muslims in Britain, says the conservative party in discussion with Muslim communities is trying to be inclusive of all variations of Islam when defining what...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 11 Sep 2019
Recently, however, ʿIzzat participated in building a house of worship for those of all faiths inside the Pentagon. Here, any person, regardless of his or her faith, can come to pray in peace. To ʿIzzat, this new interfaith place of worship embodies the values of religious tolerance and pluralism...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 12 Sep 2019
In 2017, Egypt's ministry of endowments [awqaf] prevented Rushdī from giving sermons and public speeches because of his controversial statements. However, the ministry later allowed him to give sermons again, based on a judicial decision.
A number of activists criticized Rushdī’s statements, one of...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 17 Sep 2019
The Houthi movement [al-Ḥūthiyyūn] claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying they carried them out using 10 drones. However, the spokesperson for the Saudi led coalition in Yemen, Turkī al-Mālikī, casted doubt on this claim, saying that early indicators point culpability to an Iranian made...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 19 Sep 2019
The Joint List, the Arab coalition, got 13 seats in the Knesset with more than 430,000 votes as opposed to the 10 seats it received in the last election. Although it got the third highest amount of seats, it ruled out participating in the future government despite opening a channel of...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 9 Jul 2019
In summer of 2018 I decided that, after finishing my Bachelor in Linguistics, I wanted to travel and see more than “just” Europe to widen my horizon. Via AIESEC Germany I applied for a project in Cairo, Egypt and was accepted. So it was set: I would be in Egypt from May 1st till June 16th 2019. ...
Date of source: 7 Jul 2019
Date of source: 4 Jul 2019
Religious Unity Narrative - basic idea: Copts and Muslims have good relations and stand together for Egypt. Promoted by the Egyptian government, national religious leadership, and believed by many at different socio-economic levels. Many middle and upper class Muslims believe this narrative. Seleem...
Date of source: 2 Sep 2019
I arrived by 7:00am at Maadi Community Church (MCC) where I found Elias Santos and his wife. While we were waiting for the car that would bring me to Qanater prison we were talking. Elias explained me that they are from Brazil, and they organize regular visits to Qanater prison for women and men....
Date of source: 21 Nov 2019
Diplomatic negotiations: how professionals work
While acknowledging the extensive use of negotiating tools in everyday life situations, Dr. Sami Faltas directed the attention to the precise case of professional negotiations. His analysis shed the light on essential elements constituting negotiating...
Date of source: 30 Sep 2019
The French photographer Charles Enderlin, bureau chief of France 2 network, filmed Jamāl, Muḥammad’s father, desperately trying to shield his young son after they were caught up in a heavy gun battle between Palestinian fighters and Israeli occuption soldiers.
Asmāʾ (28) said that she was a 10-year...
Reviewed by Madeleine Hall
Translator Madeleine Hall
Date of source: 30 Sep 2019
In a statement today (September 30), the Secretariat of the Holy Synod for ranking Church servants said that in an effort to engage church officials in discussing the topics introduced during the seminar of the Holy Synod this year, and in accordance with the directives issued by Pope Tawāḍrūs II,...
Reviewed by Madeleine Hall
Translator Madeleine Hall
Date of source: 29 Sep 2019
Egyptian TV presenter ‘Amr Adīb accused the Sudanese student of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood and planning, as part of a cell including a number of foreigners, to carry out “subversive” activities in Egypt. However, Walīd’s family has denied all allegations that their son was involved in anti...
Reviewed by Madeleine Hall
Translator Madeleine Hall
Date of source: 9 Oct 2019
Arab-West Report is in favor of any fruitful dialogue between peoples of different religions and convictions. But what should be the focus of a debate? Should we focus on beliefs that we know will not bring different parties together or should we focus on themes that would show similarities in...
Date of source: 24 Nov 2019
Father Basilios said that Father Matta al-Meskeen was in the first years of the monastic life of Abuna Antonios, the man who later became Pope Shenouda III, his spiritual father. Abuna Antonios was a very ambitious man and decided to go his own way, away from his spiritual father which is not...
Date of source: 30 Jul 2019
Interview transcription
Interviewer: (Q) Weam Nafea
Interviewed (A): Ambassador Mona Omar
Q: I am a student studying for my master’s degree in the Northern part of Italy and I am writing my dissertation about Islamic Feminism.
I would like to ask you what Feminism is to you.
A: For me Feminism is...
Date of source: 24 Sep 2019
“We’ve developed the auto-condemnation immunity and stopped getting angry when the Palestinian incitement is met with open arms”, he added.
“In recent years, we have led a series of moves that helped us transform the hostile spirit and strengthen our position in the organization”, he continued.
The...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
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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.