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Date of source: Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Nour Saad is Egyptian, a former student at the DEO, studies political science and sociology in Germany, and interned between March 1 and April 2, 2020, with the Center for Arab-West Understanding where she wrote a report about the cooperative religious education at the German Evangelical...
Date of source: Saturday, May 23, 2026
The new draft family law has reorganized polygamy in Egypt by establishing a set of controls and legal procedures aimed at protecting the rights of wives and children while preserving the Sharīʿa.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 20, 2026
In a notable development within the draft law on personal status affairs for Christians, Article 30 revealed specific exceptions to the prohibitions on marriage, most notably allowing marriage to the wife’s sister or the brother’s wife in the event of death within some denominations. This provision...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 6, 2026
The new draft family law continues to establish precise regulations governing marital relations, dedicating Chapter Three to defining cases of prohibited marriage, whether permanent or temporary, in a step aimed at strengthening the legal and religious framework of family relations and preventing...
Date of source: Sunday, May 24, 2026
Based on participant observation and interviews with two bawwābīn in al-Munīra neighborhood of Cairo, this report examines the position of doormen in contemporary urban Egypt. By following the experiences of bawwābīn Wā’il and ʿAīd, the paper shows how the boundaries between work and private life...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 5, 2026
As part of Egypt’s efforts to modernize legislation regulating family relations, the new draft Personal Status Law for the Muslim family, submitted by the government to the House of Representatives, includes a set of regulations aimed at achieving a balance between the rights and duties of both...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 5, 2026
MP Maḥmūd Sāmī, a member of the House of Representatives, confirmed that the new Personal Status Law submitted by the government to the Parliament has not been discussed yet to allow sufficient opportunity to carefully study its provisions to limit societal controversy.
Date of source: Sunday, April 26, 2026
A Coptic figure revealed that Egypt is preparing to issue the first Personal Status Law for Christians in its history, noting there has been no law regulating the personal status of Christians since the time of Islamic ruler ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ.
Date of source: Thursday, April 30, 2026
Anbā Bākhūm, the Patriarchal Auxiliary for the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Patriarchal Diocese Affairs, said the cabinet’s approval of the unified draft law on personal status for Christians was an "important step" towards regulating family affairs in a manner taking into consideration the particular...
Date of source: Thursday, April 30, 2026
A cabinet meeting held on Wednesday (April 29) approved the draft of the Personal Status Law for Muslims, which introduced procedures for the first time to regulate the system of personal status for Muslims in implementation of directives by President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī to expedite the referral...
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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.