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Date of source: 25 Feb 2018
The conference focused on the current situation and the future of the youth, and its role in building communities, as well as the role of young people with special needs in building the nation, the youth’s perspective on building the future, and the cultural composition of young people. It also...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 14 Mar 2018
The ceremonial celebration was attended by the head of the banking sector and representative to the Minister of Social Solidarity Ghāda Wālī, Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ, the CEO of Nasser Social Bank, Sharīf Farūq, as well as a number of the governorate MPs, and many more.
Ghāda Wālī, Minister of Social...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 16 Mar 2018
In a press statement disclosed today, Dr. Rev. Munīr Ḥanna said that “in order to preserve democracy and freedom of speech, we all have to participate in the next presidential elections to choose what we want as a people.”
He continued saying, “Our country has fought a fierce battle against...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 16 Mar 2018
Pope Tawāḍrūs II called on all the Egyptians within Egypt and abroad to exercise their right to vote and thereby fulfill their national and social duty, in order to preserve Egypt’s national achievements.
Dr. Rev. Andrīyya Zakī, head of the Coptic Evangelical Church, also called on the Coptic...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 16 Mar 2018
Tawāḍrūs clarified on the TV program ‘bil-mukhtaṣar’ (briefly said) on MBC Egypt that there are Egyptian customs and traditions from ancient times, such as the exchange of food dishes and cakes at occasions that are celebrated in both Islamic and Christian festivities. He also stressed that there...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 13 Mar 2018
The claim reports that Hishām Al-Baylī publishes weekly on his website strange fatwas, the most recent of which said that Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ has to give up football, as kneeling down for prayer after scoring goals is against the Islamic Sharīʿah.
Dr. Samīr Ṣabrī further claims that al-Baylī is not...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 1 Apr 2018
According to the report, police officers in Asyut and Minya went from house to house to urge citizens to cast their votes. It also stated that some voters received bribes ranging from 3 to 9 dollars.
The committee considered the report to be contrary to professional norms regardless whether the...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 2 Apr 2018
Information received by the National Security Agency indicates that Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ was to bring the explosives to bomb a church in the center of Najʿ Ḥamādī.
The source added that investigations with the terrorist were conducted to get to the rest of the cell. Security forces have taken strict...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 2 Apr 2018
The Mass was attended by many people, including the diocesan bishop of the northern coast eparchy, Bishop Bākhumiyyūs, the General Bishop of Alexandria and the churches of Al-Muntazah area and head of youth service, Bishop Bāflī, the papal secretary, Anjilūs Ishāq, beside a number of priests who...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 23 May 2018
Alongside his political duties, Ebeid was as well a lawyer, and most of the cases he pleaded involved accusations on political charges. Most of his historical pleadings became famous and people at the time cited his quotes.
According to the published article of the columnist and journalist of al-...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 26 Feb 2018
As for the story of Dayr Al-Banāt, literally ‘the convent of the girls, Dr. Rayḥān corrected many mistakes that have been made and the existing confusion between the modern and ancient girls' monastery, pointing out that the correct name is Dayr Al-Banāt and not Dayr al-sabaʿ Banāt (convent of the...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 25 Feb 2018
According to the media expert, the Salafists, in particular the leader of their Daʿwa, Yāsir Burhāmῑ, have exported to the world in the past 10 years, thoughts and ideologies that would make the entire world hate Muslims for centuries. “Burhāmῑ had been blaspheming the Christians, despite his...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 25 Feb 2018
In an official statement disclosed on Sunday, Kamāl commented the Israeli practices against the Christian churches aim at seizing the endowments, properties and holding of churches in the Holy Land.
Kamāl added: “The property sale (2005) at Bāb al-Khalīl- the Jaffa Gate - was the most prominent of...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 25 Feb 2018
The Patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church further called on creating a healthy climate for thinking, freedom, pluralism and diversity, increasing the value of citizenship, and linking the academic curricula with current debates. He also called on to respect the abilities and aspirations of young...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 25 Feb 2018
For example, during the first session of the Committee of 100 convening to draft the Constitution in 2012, the members of the Salafi Daʿwa and al-Nūr party refused to stand up to salute the Egyptian flag, a position which aroused great controversy at the time, and most particularly, the fatwa they...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 24 Feb 2018
During his interview on the TV talk show ‘Ammann Yatasāʾlūn’ (What People want to know), Karīma added that Egypt, as civil state, bans the establishment of parties on religious grounds. However, the Wahhabi and Salafi thought managed to penetrate the intellectual structure of Egypt.
Karīma further...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 26 Feb 2018
The screening of the film ‘The Virgin, The Copts and Me’ in a series of films, revolves around Namīr, who lives in France with his family. At home, they all speak a mixture of French and Egyptian Arabic fluently, and they often talk about the appearance of the Virgin Mary in Egypt. Namīr’s mother...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 27 Feb 2018
During the meeting, the members discussed the agenda of the upcoming period and the importance of promoting people's awareness of the state's efforts in its war on terrorism and the comprehensive military operation "Sinai 2018" carried out by the armed forces and police in the north and central...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 27 Feb 2018
In a lecture hosted by the College of Wycliffe Hall at the University of Oxford in Britain UK, the President of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina pointed out that President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī has taken unprecedented steps to improve the relationship between the state and the Copts by rebuilding and...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 28 Feb 2018
Ambassador ʿAlāʾ Yūsuf expressed his regret over the insistence of some states to politicize the work of the Human Rights Council and turning it into a platform for ‘teaching lessons’, based on allegations whose authenticity or validity was not confirmed before being included in official statements...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 28 Feb 2018
Hundreds of participants applied for the tour. In the morning of the tour, a group of people of different ages gathered at the meeting point, the al-Sakakῑnῑ Pasha Palace, from where the tour was to resume; they wondered about premises they used to see in their district without knowing what these...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 22 Feb 2018
The rejection of all what comes from abroad and judging these as unpleasant is actually against human history in general, and the Egyptian history of openness in particular.
Many do not know that some western traditions, such as celebrating one own’s birthday, have become part of the Egyptian...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 24 Feb 2018
ʿAbd Al-Munʿim added that his father had worked for years with President Mubārak, and that he personally is proud of being a Fulūl, as the remnants of the old regime of Mubarak are called. Fulūl is also the title of ʿAbd Al-Munʿim’s memoirs. According to the 46-year-old actor, the old regime did...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 24 Feb 2018
General Bishop of Central Cairo and President of the Coptic Orthodox Holy Synod, Bishop Raphael, is to delegate Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the Holy See of St. Mark, The Coptic Catholic Patriarch, Bishop Ibrāhīm Isḥāq, and Dr. Andrīyyā Zakī head of the Coptic Evangelical...
Reviewed by Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Translator Islām al-Ḥalawānī
Date of source: 16 Oct 2018
Dr. al-Ṭayyib opened the meeting by expressing his delight over Italy, the ancient land that maintains deep historical links with Egypt on the political, cultural and economic levels.
He also noted the importance of the joint work of the religious institutions and their leaders for promoting world...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 17 Oct 2018
In an interview to al-Yawm al-Sābiʿ, Soad Jaber [Suʿād Jābir], the first woman to run for the position of Shaykh al-Balad, confirmed that she is well aware of the duties of the village chief at the security, social and developmental levels. Besides, she can work on containing and resolving the...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 19 Oct 2018
Two days ago, the Egyptian Cabinet has approved the committee’s major recommendations provided for in article 8 of the law regulating the construction and renovation of churches concerning the regularization of 76 churches and 44 buildings, making a total of 120 churches and buildings. Such places...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 20 Oct 2018
In a press conference on the 39th session of the Human Rights Council, ʿUqayl stressed that the OHCHR did not have sufficient information or evidences about the case and the crimes committed, and defended the culprits and left the victims.
He added that MAAT debunked the myth about the enforced...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 11 Oct 2018
Over the past 30 years, Bishop Bīshūy represented the Coptic Orthodox Church in all the meetings and dialogues with other churches. Despite his good relations with the members of these churches, no progress has been achieved in bringing the two currents to any agreement. Bishop Bīshūy was rather...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 15 Oct 2018
He also indicated that the reading and interpretation of the Bible is an inherent right for every Egyptian.
Furthermore, he pointed out that those who seek to know the history of the Egyptians must read the Book of Genesis in order to learn about this people that loved life and were the first to...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 15 Oct 2018
In his press statement on Monday, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf said that the forum, held for the fourth year in a row and under the auspices of President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī, is to convene at St. Catherine, in Sinai from 18 to 19 October 2018.
It is also held under the supervision and chairmanship of the...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 15 Oct 2018
According to church sources, Pope Tawāḍrūs II, who is overseeing the renovations in the cathedral himself, has stopped his weekly sermons there since mid-2015, in order to accomplish the restoration works. The sources added that the committee formed to prepare for the celebration, headed by Bishop...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 19 Oct 2014
Minya’s Christian majority population was exposed to an assault by policemen after a young Coptic man defended a girl from sexual harassment by a young Muslim. However, the young man did conduct an investigation into those policemen (Na’īm Yūsif, al-Aqbāt al-Mutahidūn, Oct. 19). Read the original...
Date of source: 19 Oct 2014
Press reports indicated that some texts written by a member of Jamā’ah al-Islāmīah contain an incitement to use violence, meanwhile, Jamā’ah al-Islāmīah has denied this and claimed that their approach is only missionary [in purpose]. Former members of the Jamā’ah al-Islāmīah agreed that they still...
Date of source: 19 Oct 2014
Ahmad Abū al-Ghaīt thinks that despite its regained strength, Egypt will not enter the war against ISIS into which Turkey has been dragged and he stressed that Egypt is under the attack of foreign media. He also said that ISIS must been confronted with ground troops (Ūnā, al-Dustūr, Oct. 19)....
Date of source: 18 Oct 2014
A scientist in the affairs of Islamist movements warned against the criminalization of the adversely “Rābi’a” sign because, even though Germany prohibited the Nazi sign, there are teachers affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideology who can influence their pupils. He stressed that these...
Date of source: 17 Oct 2014
A young girl and her mother proclaimed to convert to Islam. While the mother was changing her and her daughter’s documents, the father was travelling to Kuwait and became angry because, even if it was the free will of his wife to convert, there must be a law that protects the child and he...
Date of source: 21 Feb 2018
On May 12, 1952, two months before the outbreak of the July Revolution, the magazine “Al-Ithnayn wa al-Dunyā” published a report on the Bāb al-Ḥadīd station, which was then already 93 years old.
The report states that the representative of the Wālī of Egypt ʿAbbās Pasha and the representative of...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 22 Feb 2018
Isḥāq gave a speech about the situation of the Christians in Egypt. He said that the security situation has improved and is more stable and that President Al-Sīsī has made efforts which contributed to the stability of life and Egypt’s return to its international status.
In response to a question...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 22 Feb 2018
Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the Holy See of St. Mark, presided over the opening of the “Week of Prayer” at the Greek Orthodox Church.
The “Week of Prayer for the Unity of Churches” takes place every year since the establishing of the ECC, of which five Egyptian Christian...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 22 Feb 2018
On May 10, 1973, the two heads of the two Churches signed a joint declaration, in which they agreed to form a joint committee to conduct joint studies in different fields. The committee decided to engage in theological studies on the understanding of the unity that existed in the first undivided...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 27 Feb 2018
Munā Abū Shanab, editor-in-chief of the shows on Channel One, claims that polygamy solves economic, social and health problems, and is the appropriate solution to eliminate spinsterhood and to marry off divorced women… As for the solution to economic, social and health problems, she said on the...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 15 Oct 2014
A Coptic group called “Movement of the Victims of the Personal Status is the Egyptian Church” is demanding the restructuring of the Seminarian Council and the replacement of Bishop Baula. The group also demanded the adoption of a new regulations concerning marriage, divorce, and other issues (...
Date of source: 15 Oct 2014
The satirist Bill Maher, leader of Detractors against Islam and its Prophet Muhammad, went too far with his sarcasm in his weekly show “Real Time With Bill”, in which he stated that the Qu’ran simply describes culture from the Middle Ages. This is not the first time that the Prophet Muhammad...
Reviewed by Yosra el-Gendi [Yusrá al-Jundī]
Translator Yosra el-Gendi [Yusrá al-Jundī]
Date of source: 16 Oct 2014
In front of the Criminal Court in Cairo, the representative of the public persecution presented his arguments in the court case against the ousted President Mursī, known as “the events of the Federal.” The representative asked further about Islam-based terrorism and stressed that the Muslim...
Date of source: 17 Oct 2014
On Friday, supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood continued to spread violence and chaos during their demonstrations. Meanwhile, the supporters’ march blocked Ahmad ‘Asamat Street in Ain Shams and they set afire many student checkpoints at al-Haram Street. The Muslim Brothers’ march started in...
Date of source: 17 Oct 2014
The Carter Center, a non-profit oriented NGO founded by the former American President Jimmy Carter and his wife in 1982, closed its Cairo office, first established in 2011. In response, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry declared its surprise in an official letter. The Generation Party stated that it...
Date of source: 20 Oct 2014
Jimmy Carter, head of the Carter Center in Egypt, who is always embarrassed and concerned about the events in Egypt, is at the peak of contradictory American behavior whose favoritism for terrorist groups has become clear in the Egyptian runoff elections between the isolated Muhammad Mursī and...
Date of source: 20 Oct 2014
Pope Tawadros II., Archbishop of Alexandria and Patriarch of the Saint Markus Episcopate, stressed that ‘Adlī Mansūr became Egyptian president by God’s will and he praised Mansūr as a wise man who ran the office with all his capabilities. During the honoring celebration, a film was shown about...
Date of source: 20 Oct 2014
The “Jurists of Moodiness” are a group of religious Scholars that publish hardline Fatwas based on their ‘wrong’ readings and interpretations of religious texts without taking into consideration any social conditions for the Fatwa, for example those issued by the Salafist preachers Abū Ishāq al-...
Date of source: 21 Oct 2014
This evening the Ministry of Tourism and the Tourism Boards held a ceremony at the Coptic museum in order to revive the Holy Family’s path, in the presence of Eng. Ibrāhīm Mahlab, head of the Ministry of Tourism, Pope Tawadros II., and others from within and outside Egypt. Meanwhile, a new...
Date of source: 21 Oct 2014
The court stated that the Muslim Brotherhood lacks any national affiliation while banning the alliance, led by the Muslim Brotherhood. Meanwhile, other parties have been founded similar to the Justice and Freedom Party. The most obvious example of that is that the Independence Party slogan - “...
Date of source: 20 Oct 2014
Supporters of the ousted president Muhammad Mursī pursue a “Muslim Brotherhood Policy” that is based on killing Egyptian citizens for several reasons. For example they slaughtered a Taxi driver and set his car on fire for showing the victory sign, they set fire to houses that show the picture...
Date of source: 18 Oct 2014
Members of a terrorist cell and another cell planning to disrupt the educational process have been imprisoned. Meanwhile, a group belonging to the terrorist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, has moved into student circles in an attempt to attract a large number of [supporters] and to regain...
Date of source: 2 Jan 2018
This conference precedes an international workshop on Egypt set up by the Israeli University of Tel Aviv, entitled ‘From the Egyptian Revolution of 1919 until the Arab Spring: a new perspective on a century of the Egyptian history’.
The workshop starts with a lecture by Prof. James Whidden in which...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 1 Jan 2018
The Copts chanted many hymns and prayers to God to protect Egypt and its people. The Mass was performed by Father Naẓmī and the Archpriest Mīnā Sulaymān, pastor of the Church of Saint George in the west of Kafr al-Shaykh.
Security forces were surrounding the churches and monasteries, and the...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 2 Jan 2018
The Grand Imam Dr. Aḥmad Al-Tayyib has condemned the terrorist attacks aimed at the Church of Mār Mīnā in Helwan and emphasized in a statement that these terrible terrorist attacks aimed at the Coptic brothers and sisters on the holidays are obviously targeting the nation and its unity, and the...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 2 Jan 2018
The book is split up in five chapters. The first chapter is entitled “The Egyptian society facing western influence” and tells about the French campaign and its role in bringing western influence to Egypt and the role of Muḥammad ʿAlī in building up the Modern of Egypt. The second chapter discusses...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 2 Jan 2018
During a call-in interview with media presenter Lubnā ʿAsal on On Live TV channel, Dr. Māyā Mursī pointed that a complaints office has been allocated to assist women who have been deprived of their legal inheritance, adding that NCW will raise pro bono lawsuits for them. [Muḥammad Sharqāwī, al-Yawm...
Reviewed by Cleo Mampaey
Translator Cleo Mampaey
Date of source: 1 Jan 2019
To be presided by the presidential adviser for security and anti-terror affairs, the high counter-sectarianism commission encompasses representatives of the Armed Forces Operation Department, the Military Intelligence, the General Intelligence, the Administrative Control Authority, and the National...
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.