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Date of source: 6 Mar 2020
After using inappropriate expressions in his post, some youth in the village set fire to three nests of agricultural lands for cattle that were owned by Copts. Security forces moved and surrounded the village to secure it completely. However, reasonable Muslims and Copts moved quickly and...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 12 Feb 2020
Political changes in Egypt for the past few years have posed a challenge to al-Azhar’s ability to respond to necessary changes for political reform. In this context, the appearance of the Grand Shaykh of al-Azhar, Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, raises questions about how to value his political role since the...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 18 Feb 2020
Bishop Aghāthūn is among the most prominent symbols of the extreme traditionalist schools of thought in the Coptic Church. He has persisted in confronting Pope Tawāḍrūs II’s reformist orientation specifically regarding the issue of relations between other Christian denominations and has continued...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 18 Feb 2020
Bishop Ermia [Irmiyā], General Bishop and Chairman of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center, confirmed that the training program comes as a part of periodic meetings and training programs organized by the “House of the Family” [Bayt al-ʿĀʾila] in order to strengthen the concept of real citizenship,...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 19 Feb 2020
The conference also had Pope Tawāḍrūs II participating in the conference via video conference calling as well as 9 lectures opposing violence against women.
The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church, which was held last January, had made a number of recommendations to establish a committee...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 29 Jan 2020
Egyptian Diplomatic sources revealed that Cairo actually welcomed a plan through direct funding from the Italian government to prepare police and African security forces to confront migration. This plan, which lasted a year and a half, was one of the unannounced ways of security cooperation...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 27 Feb 2020
Fr. Dāwūd, the secretary of Samālūṭ Archdiocese, said that was the first visit of British ambassador to Samālūṭ. The visit came in the context of seeing the monastery of the Virgin as one of the stations of the Holy Family's journey, where the ambassador visited the ancient church, and entered the...
Reviewed by Aḥmad Badr
Translator Aḥmad Badr
Date of source: 28 Apr 2020
On October 16, 2019, Henk Glimmerveen sent me an announcement regarding a documentary titled “The Valley of Salt,” to be broadcast on October 18 by the Evangelische Omroep (EO, Evangelical Broadcasting Company).
The announcement reads (in translation) “As the young Egyptian filmmaker Christophe...
Date of source: 7 Feb 2020
The Secretary-General of Dār al-Iftāʾ al-Miṣriyyah added, that there are statistics released today on the Global Fatwā Index (GIF), clarifying that there is a discourse that exists in Egypt and other countries from those who seek and spread extremism, and blindly follow several texts, some of which...
Reviewed by Aḥmad Badr
Translator Aḥmad Badr
Date of source: 16 Feb 2020
According to al-Yawm al-Sābiʿ newspaper, Anṭūn said that the total Orthodox churches whose status has been legalized is approaching 70 churches in the last batch of 82 churches. Moreover the rate of legalizing churches reached 1500 churches and subsidiary buildings from all denominations.
Father...
Reviewed by Aḥmad Badr
Translator Aḥmad Badr
Date of source: 11 Jan 2020
The village of al-Karam, which is at the center of Abū Qurqāṣ, witnessed incidents of sectarian strife and attacks on a number of Coptic homes on May 20, 2016, following a rumor spread about an affair between a Muslim housewife and a married Coptic man.
Suʿād Thābit accused the ex-husband of the...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 24 Feb 2020
According to the internal procedures of the al-Azhar Council of Senior Scholars, the Shaykh of al-Azhar calls the Council to hold a meeting at least one month before the end of his tenure as Mufti of Egypt in order to process the nomination of the new mufti. The Council nominates three people from...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 27 Feb 2020
During the meeting, participants mentioned their concerns over the Patriarch of Jerusalem facing imminent danger of schism within the Orthodox Union. Delegations from every Orthodox Church in Jerusalem participated in the meeting with Patriarch Theophilos III [Thiyyūfīlūs], Patriarch of the Holy...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 26 Feb 2020
Despite what Dr. ʿIssām said about the civil state and the nature of the system of power in it, Islamists didn’t settle once and for all the issue of the system of rule or its means. And they didn’t decide on the issue of choosing a ruler or the conditions that must exist.
Dr. ʿIssām claimed that...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 4 Mar 2020
After the ruling, a judicial official said that the criminal court in Cairo on Monday sentenced ʿAshmāwī and 36 others to death. They were accused of committing 54 crimes including the assassinations of police officers, the attempted assassination of the former Minister of the Interior Muḥammad...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 24 Mar 2020
Jumaʿa added that whatever was said about the Coronavirus being mentioned in the Qur’an is nonsense. The state of emergency should apply to whoever speaks about the crisis from an unqualified perspective. The maximum penalty must be imposed on whoever uses social media to profit from crises.
The...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 24 Mar 2020
Dr. ʿAbbās Shūmān, former vice-president of al-Azhar, said that some people are used to tying disasters and crises with the Qur’an and its verses and interpreting them as pointing to the event, its time, and place. As happened with events of September 11th, they connect the Qur’an to whatever is...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 24 Mar 2020
He emphasized that all of these are acts pleasing to God [qurubāt] and necessities of which their doer is rewarded for and thus doubles his merit in the eyes of God [thawāb] whether they are among the commendable alms [al-ṣadaqāt al-mustaḥabba] or among the necessary alms [al-zakāt al-wājiba].
He...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Egyptian Prisons Refuse to Let in Disinfectants and Sanitizers despite the Pandemic and Overcrowding
Date of source: 22 Mar 2020
Niʿma Hishām, wife of detained lawyer Muḥammad al-Bāqir, wrote that she had gone to prison to bring precautionary, basic necessities and some food to her husband and was surprised by the long list of banned items including all basic necessities for personal hygiene and sanitation.
The number of...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 21 Mar 2020
The State Information Service had made a decision about the two newspapers last Tuesday after The Guardian published a report about the spread of the Coronavirus in Egypt. The report included a study by a Canadian researcher, estimating that Egypt has 19,310 cases of Coronavirus. The State...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 21 Mar 2020
After meeting this morning to discuss the latest developments regarding the spread of the novel Coronavirus Covid-19, the decision issued by the Standing Council for the Holy Synod under the authority of Pope Tawāḍrūs II came in the context of following the exceptional situation that the world is...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 17 Mar 2020
The issue of women’s rights is an issue that exists in grey areas in Islamist thought and needs the exertion of a lot of effort from the Islamists’ side for the sake of adapting to the vocabulary of legal thought, especially related to women’s rights and the different approaches (equality and...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 28 Jan 2020
Al-Khusht said that renewal of religious discourse is not possible, except by replacing old texts connected to the interpretations [tafsīr] of divine texts, jurisprudence (Fiqh), the origins of religion (Usūl al-Dīn) and sciences of the hadith. He emphasized that the current age is confronting...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 29 Jan 2020
At the conference, Egyptian President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī called for the renewal of Islamic thought. According to him, declining interest in this matter would leave the stage for imposters to hijack the minds of the youth, deceive them about the Sharīʿah, and transmit to these youth false...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 31 Jan 2020
Prayer was led by Bishop Munīr Ḥannā, bishop of the Episcopal Church in Egypt, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. In his sermon, Bishop Munīr said, “We are here today among the youth to pray for unity among churches. Our unity here is our united goal to preach the gospel, be disciples in the...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 1 Feb 2020
The Criminal Court in South Cairo, under Justice Muṣṭafā Maḥmūd ʿAbd al-Ghafār, had issued a decision to classify the incident under the Terror Statutes. This comes in addition to a petition advanced by the prosecutor that includes the results of investigations, confirming that the accused...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 2 Feb 2020
The UN clarified that while there was a decrease of more than 13% from 2008 to 2014 in the number of female circumcisions in the age category of 15-17 years old (according to the 2014 Egypt Health and Demographic Survey), there should be accelerated efforts towards abandoning this practice as a...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 28 Feb 2020
Bishop Anthony [Anṭūniyyū], Bishop of Milan, has decided to halt and suspend the prayers in the Coptic churches indefinitely due to the spread of Coronavirus in Milan, at the request of the Italian government. The Church told the Copts to halt the prayers and masses until blockading the virus, and...
Reviewed by Aḥmad Badr
Translator Aḥmad Badr
Date of source: 28 Feb 2020
A customary reconciliation session was held in the village in the presence of the local leaders in Dishnā under the patronage of Aḥmad Mukhtār, a former member of the Egyptian parliament, to reach an agreement on the events that took place on New Year's Eve. Copts were prevented from praying in a...
Reviewed by Aḥmad Badr
Translator Aḥmad Badr
Date of source: 4 Mar 2020
The celebration includes Dr. Muṣṭafā al-Fiqī, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Nādiyya Zakhārī, Vice President for the National Council for Women, Dr. Jamāl Muṣṭafā, Head of the Islamic and Coptic Antiquities Department at the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, and representatives from...
Reviewed by Rupert Walker
Translator Rupert Walker
Date of source: 26 Feb 2020
It is worth noting that they were all sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for being fugitives from justice, and they were recently arrested. The court requested the procedures of re-trial them in the presence of the terrorism circuit.
The Public Prosecution has accused the defendants of...
Reviewed by Aḥmad Badr
Translator Aḥmad Badr
Date of source: 6 Feb 2020
According to the Israeli writer, the most common ideas presented in the text books are that Israel seeks control of the entirety of Palestine and that Zionist gangs wreak havoc and spread animosity.
Yohanan emphasised that Palestinian educators teach their students that Israel was mainly created...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 31 Dec 2006 to 12 Mar 2020
Date of source: 8 Feb 2020
The Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms wrote that Pātrīk undergoes an investigation into case no. 7245/2019. The Egyptian researcher is facing multiple charges, such as spreading false news and harming national security, as well as terrorism charges.
His friends indicated on social...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 2 Feb 2020
A source from within the film team explained the two men were not aware of the symbolic meaning and importance of the clothes they were wearing, and thus uploaded the videos on the internet without a second thought. The source continues by saying that the two men apologised immediately after they...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 9 Feb 2020
During the session, four Copts, whose houses were damaged and burned in the events of 2016, and the accused signed a conciliation agreement before the scheduled hearing of the case tomorrow. In the court session the Copts will change their initial testimonies, and instead say that they did not see...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 6 Feb 2020
Dr. Māyā Mursī emphasised that the forum is an excellent opportunity for businesswomen and female entrepreneurs from around the world to meet in one place and discuss the ways through which female economic empowerment can be promoted.
Dr. Harbeen Arora thanked Dr. Māyā Mursī for the warm reception...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 24 Feb 2020
The eight prisoners were Walīd Abū al-Majd ʿAbdullāh, Muḥammad Mubārak ʿAbd al-Salām, Salāma Aḥmad Salāma, ʿAlī Shaḥāt Ḥussayn, ʿAbd al-Raḥman Kamāl al-Dīn ʿAlī, ʿAlī Maḥmūd Muḥammad Ḥassan, Rifāʾī ʿAlī Aḥmad Muḥammad, and Rāmī Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd.
On the 10th November 2018, Alexandria's...
Reviewed by Rupert Walker
Translator Rupert Walker
Date of source: 11 Feb 2020
Advisor Nādir Saʿd, official spokesperson for the Cabinet’s office, stated that the committee reviewed the results of an audit on the statuses of churches and subsidiary buildings that had submitted requests for legalization. The audit had been completed since the committee last convened a meeting...
Reviewed by Emma Scolding
Translator Emma Scolding
Date of source: 16 Feb 2020
The Grand Mufti, in a keynote speech during the conference, is going to present Egypt's Dār al-Iftāʾ experience and efforts in combating extremist ideologies, including projects and initiatives to protect young people from thoughts of extremism, violence and terrorism.
Dr. Ibrāhīm Nijm, Advisor to...
Reviewed by Aḥmad Badr
Translator Aḥmad Badr
Date of source: 10 Feb 2020
ʿAdlī stated that the parents of the students didn't submit a judicial complaint and so the court didn't proceed a criminal ruling. Sihām ʿAlī explained that the appropriate punishment would vary depending on each case of harassment being either verbal or physical.
According to the Undersecretary...
Reviewed by Rupert Walker
Translator Rupert Walker
Date of source: 11 Jan 2020
The synagogue is considered to be among the oldest synagogues in the world, being established in 1354 CE. It was damaged when Napoleon Bonaparte came to Egypt in 1798, and had been rebuilt in 1850 under ʿAbbās Ḥilmī I’s tenure. During that time, the space of the synagogue was increased to 4200...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 2 Feb 2020
Copts from the village are calling for the release of the two Copts, ʿIṣṣām ʿĪssā Tawfīq and Razīqī Khalaf Tawfīq, and stressed that they didn’t commit any crime. Rather, they said that the two were victims after their homes were burnt down.
Copts in Fāw Baḥarī don’t have a church despite the...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 3 Feb 2020
Jibrāʾīl added that what these youths did acts as a crime mocking Christianity.
Jibrāʾīl demanded that the youth go to trial in accordance with Article 98 of the Penal Code. He cited that Christian children from Banī Mazār were sentenced to five years in prison for deriding Islam, after they acted...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 6 Feb 2020
In the drawing, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen, with a Star of David on his sleeve, thrusting a coffin with the Palestinian flag on top of it into a crematory. Above the drawing is the expression “Arbeit Macht Frei” [Work Sets You Free], which was the infamous inscription at the...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 10 Feb 2020
When the judge asked whether there had been any pressure on them to make a reconciliation agreement, they said no and said that they hadn’t seen the accused at the scene of the crime. The accusation had been built on what the Coptic families had heard from other people in the village, and the...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 8 Jan 2020
The main amendment to the law introduces a broader definition of the "funds" of terrorist individuals and entities that can be frozen under the law. According to the amendment, the definition of "funds" shall include all financial assets and economic resources such as oil, other natural resources,...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 15 Jan 2020
Speaking on the matter, the spokesperson for the Interior Ministry stated that Qāsim was subjected to an official and fair trial in front of a normal judge and was included amongst others accused. The ruling concluded with the release of those who proved their innocence and the conviction of those...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 17 Jan 2020
On January 13th of this year, Muṣṭafā Qāsim, who possessed duel American and Egyptian citizenship, died in Ṭura Līmān Prison after being sentenced to 15 years in prison for the incident at Rābaʿa al-ʿAdawiyya Square in August of 2013. Qāsim had been suffering from diabetes, and his health had...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 19 Jan 2020
The Laqqān prayer in Christianity means “bathing” and is where the baptism of Christ is remembered. Pope Tawāḍrūs II, pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, said that the word “al-Laqqān” is Greek for the container that the water used for bathing is placed in. There is a model...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 21 Jan 2020
An official from the Bible Society said that it will have bibles in Arabic and English there as well as a bunch of new publications for children and young people.
The Evangelical Culture Publishing House will have over 300 publications available for sale at the fair.
Bishop Bākhūm, official...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 6 Jan 2020
According to the Council, the song’s lyrics contain expressions that fall under the crime of insulting and defamation on social media based on the Anti-Cyber and Information Technology Crimes law according to the sentence 175 / 2018 of the Egyptian Panel Code. This step came in light of the Council...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 27 Jan 2020
Following Dr. Jābir Naṣār’s (Former president of Cairo University) decision to ban the niqāb in April 2015, a lawyer raised four cases against the ban in the Administrative Court on behalf of 80 female researchers who work at Cairo University and wear the niqāb. Despite the lawyer’s demands to...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 4 Jan 2020
The Supreme Court asked the representative of Pope Tawāḍrūs II to provide documents to the court that specify the date of the church’s creation, the church’s registration, an official overview from the Coptic endowments and a summary of the steps that were taken to register it in the Egyptian...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 27 Jan 2020
During a phone-in programme al-Qāḍī said that the Ministry of Awqāf respects all judicial decisions. He added that the Dār al-Iftāʾ is better suited to deal with issues related to the niqāb.
al-Qāḍī emphasised the importance to continuously renew the religious discourse in order to keep up with the...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 29 Jan 2020
Ziyāda continued by saying that the niqāb prevents women from communicating and fulfilling the tasks their jobs require them to do. She added that according to Salafists the niqāb is intended to isolate women and stop them from attracting men.
The director of the Egyptian Liberal Democracy...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke
Date of source: 11 Feb 2020
Religious Zionists claim that God promised them the land of the current State of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. But claiming that God is on your side in a modern political conflict is highly problematic.
Yet this belief is not only found among religious Zionists but also among...
Date of source: 5 Feb 2020
The text in Deuteronomy 22:20-21 is a horrible one by today's standards. The girl in question has to prove in fact her “innocence”, but even then: the death penalty by stoning is fully out of proportion. This is not the only commandment in the Old Testament that means nothing to us. There are quite...
Date of source: 29 Jan 2020
In a joint press conference Trump's plan, announced in the presence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, came to confirm what has long been known, that the "Peace Plan" favored Israeli priorities, and aimed at the liquidation of the Palestinian cause.
On Twitter, President Trump published...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Date of source: 29 Jan 2020
The movement added that the current Egyptian state is fighting a fierce war and launching campaigns of arrest, political repression and abuse against the Islamists, and against all opponents of every shape and color. According to the movement, preservation of the quality of university education and...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
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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.