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Date of source: 8 Feb 2016
Jayson Casper met Aḥmad Ashūsh during a demonstration in front of the French Embassy in January 2013 and had asked him for a meeting. Aḥmad Ashūsh came on February 27, 2013, with four followers. In this interview he spoke with two non-Egyptians and non-Muslims. We do not know how he would speak...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Date of source: 7 Feb 2016
In April of 2015, the four students filmed a play lampooning Islamic extremists after 20 Egyptian Copts were killed in Libya in February 2015. The play included a scene in which the actors performed an Islamic prayer. [Author not mentioned, Daily News Egypt, Feb. 7, 2016] read full text
Date of source: 6 Feb 2016
The Islamic State (ISIS) continues to control large parts of Syria and Iraq, defying the on-going military actions conducted against it by the United States, France and others. Part of its success in maintaining control over its territory is the constant influx of new volunteers from all over the...
Date of source: 6 Feb 2016
The trial was postponed because the cage in which defendants are typically placed in court was not big enough to hold all of them.
The last trial session, which took place on Dec. 12, was postponed for the same reason. [Author not mentioned, Egypt Independent, Feb. 6, 2016] read full text
Date of source: 5 Feb 2016
Gawīsh had been arrested Jan. 31 at his workplace, the offices of the Egypt News Network website, and interrogated about drawing political caricatures targeting symbols of the Egytian state. After a wave of protests and controversy generated through social media, the Ministry of Interior issued a...
Date of source: 5 Feb 2016
The Mataryia doctors said they will resume work at the reception and emergency departments of the hospital despite not having had their “rights” given back to them, according to a statement published on Friday on the Egyptian Medical Syndicate website.
The doctors at the Mataryia hospital have held...
Date of source: 4 Feb 2016
In May 2014, police raided the offices of the Belādī Foundation pursuant to a complaint filed by a man who alleged that his missing son had been held in the foundation's premises in Downtown Cairo. They searched the office without a warrant from the prosecution, arrested Hejāzī, Hassanēn and two...
Date of source: 4 Feb 2016
The seal was found in the Lower Galilee on the Horns of Hattin in Israel, which got its name from the two peaks on top of this extinct volcano. [Sarah Griffiths, Mail Online, Feb. 4, 2016] read full text
Date of source: 3 Feb 2016
The ministry said that the militants were planning to target several public figures, including politicians, and army and police members. [Author not mentioned, Ahrām Online, Feb. 3, 2016] read full text
Date of source: 2 Feb 2016
Cartoonist Islām Gawīsh was released earlier on Monday without being charged, having been cleared by the prosecution of having ties with a news website which security authorities say was operating without a license. [Hātem Māher, Ahrām Online, Feb. 2, 2016] read full text
Date of source: 2 Feb 2016
A report from The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information showed the highest number of attacks took place in the North Sinai region of the country, where 75 attacks took place and explosive devices were dismantled on 25 occasions.
It is also the region where a Russian plane was brought down...
Date of source: 2 Feb 2016
Upon arrival to the Cairo Airport on January 29, Egyptian-German academic Dr. `Ātef Botros was detained by airport authorities and interrogated about his activities with the Maydān al-Tahrīr Initiative. His arrest allegedly took place after a security report was released by the Egyptian Embassy in...
Date of source: 1 Feb 2016
Introduction Arab-West Report
We are grateful for Maya Williamson’s translation of this booklet about Daniel Van der Meulen (Actuele Onderwerpen (AO), October 4, 1991). Van der Meulen, whom I first met in 1975 when he was 79 and I was 20, inspired me to focus my studies on Muslim-Christian...
Reviewed by Maya Williamson
Translator Maya Williamson
Date of source: 1 Feb 2016
Brave Egyptians resisting the system and exposing ideological underpinnings will eventually erode Islam’s backward concepts and entwine with the state. It can rob power from religionists and lead to the release of followers around the world. Believers can then be inspired to replace blind obedience...
Date of source: 31 Jan 2016
Members of the syndicate's council held a prolonged emergency meeting Saturday followed by a press conference, in which they announced a permanent session and that the general assembly will convene for an urgent session on 12 February.
A sense of anger prevailed during the press conference, while a...
Date of source: 30 Jan 2016
Fatima Nā`ūt, a writer, poet and broadcaster, has found guilty of "insulting Islam" and sentenced to three years imprisonment for "contempt of religion".
Nā`ūt was sentenced for comments she made online in relation to the festival of `Īd al-Adha, the great Bairam in the Muslim calendar.
One...
Date of source: 28 Jan 2016
MARRAKESH, 27 January 2016 — At the invitation of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, 250 of the world’s eminent Islamic leaders convened to discuss the rights of religious minorities and the obligation to protect them in Muslim majority states.
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Date of source: 27 Jan 2016
In an interview with AL Monitor, Khāled Hanafi, a visually impaired representative and one of the 28 parliamentarians appointed by President `Abd al-Fattāh al-Sisi, said that he was preparing a series of interpellations and briefing requests to submit to the government. These would cover a number...
Date of source: 26 Jan 2016
I wrote Prof. Reimer on the occasion of his birthday “We have known each other since attending the All Saints Cathedral in Zamalek in the 1980s. We both were students. We then thought we knew things but with growing older discovered things we thought to know were more complex.
I like the way you...
Date of source: 26 Jan 2016
This is a grave mistake that will alienate security agencies from society instead of having society’s full support in the fierce battle against terrorism. On the fifth anniversary of the January 2011 revolution, an atmosphere of panic is palpable, with a fear of mass demonstrations that could...
Date of source: 26 Jan 2016
It is the nature of many cultural players-- particularly those who are considered independent and those in Egypt—to never back down, even if it means their actions can endanger them. They persist even if they are backed into a corner. They have no choice but to confront the forces that oppose them...
Date of source: 25 Jan 2016
For many Christians in Egypt, customary reconciliation sessions (CRS) represent one of the most visceral symbols of discrimination against their community. Existing outside the scope of formal law and justice, CRS offer a quick alternative to the lengthy judicial process as village elders and...
Date of source: 14 Jan 2016
Cornerstone is the blog of the Religious Freedom Project (RFP) at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Responding to RFP 2015 Dissertation Research Fellowship: Findings
Placed with permission of the author in Arab-West Report. The editor of AWR placed a...
Date of source: 7 Jan 2016
On November 5, 2015, we interviewed Dr. Muhammad Salah, a conservative television preacher whose method of preaching resembles that of Dr. Robert Schuler at the Crystal Cathedral in the U.S. (We indeed saw a copy of the book in his office.)
Dr. Salah speaks the “tale Kanaäns,” a Dutch expression...
Reviewed by Maya Williamson
Translator Maya Williamson
Date of source: 31 Dec 2015
World Servants is a Christian organization that supports partner organizations in developing countries with the construction of buildings for social projects. They do this by sending teams of mostly young Dutch volunteers to work together and interact with the local population around a construction...
Date of source: 31 Dec 2015
1. How would you characterize the situation of Christians in your country?
CH: Volatile. At this moment, there is security but if Egypt’s economy does not improve this could result in a revolution of the poor, which will most likely target the middle class that includes many Christians....
Date of source: 30 Dec 2015
The reasons for the suspension were not immediately clear. A person familiar with the program, called Free Basics, which provides free access to text-only versions pf Facebook and other services, said that the Egyptian government had ordered it closed down. Reuters quoted an Egyptian...
Date of source: 30 Dec 2015
According to Egyptian Streets, President Al-Sisi urged reform of Islamic discourse and called on Islamic scholars to send Christmas greetings to Christians. In the televised speech to Islamic scholars, he stated, “We talk a lot about the importance of religious discourse... In our schools,...
Date of source: 30 Dec 2015
The party described the authorities' raids on cultural venues in the past few days as a crackdown on freedom of expression and creativity, as well as an attack on constitutional rights the Egyptian people fought for. [Author not mentioned, Ahrām Online, Dec. 30, 2015]read full text
Date of source: 29 Dec 2015
Unconfirmed reports say Al Behēri will be escorted to Tora Prison to start the sentence. [Adham Yūsuf, Daily News Egypt, Dec. 29, 2015] read full text
Date of source: 29 Dec 2015
Some of the most important of these publication ban decisions came after the assasination of Egypt's top prosecutor Hishām Barakāt, and the armed forces' killing of eight Mexican tourists and four Egyptians that been with them. [Author not mentioned, Aswāt Misryyia, Dec. 29, 2015] read full text
Date of source: 29 Dec 2015
In the first raid on Monday, government agents seized papers and computers at the Townhouse Gallery and the affiliated Rawābit Theater before suspending the organization's activities, according to Fātima Sirāj, the legal director for the Association of Free Thought and Expression, a group that...
Date of source: 28 Dec 2015
Dār al-Iftā' called 2015 a “year of major achievements”, as it has made significant effort to deliver a moderate message of the religious institution in order to build bridges of communication with people from different cultures. [Salma `Abdallāh, Daily News Egypt, Dec. 28, 2015] read full text
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...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
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...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
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
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
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...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
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...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
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...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
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...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
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...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
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...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
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...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
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...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
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...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
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...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
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: 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...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
Translator Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
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...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
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...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
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...
Reviewed by Jeanne Middelstaedt-Rizkallah
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
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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.