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Date of source: Sunday, February 12, 2023
Sinai University has summoned Maī ʿAbdullah, a dentistry student in the first grade, to be investigaed on charges of contempt of religion, after she has been accused of insulting the prophet Muḥammad, and mocking the ḥijāb and heaven, as well as adherents of Islam. The dean of the faculty of...
Date of source: Saturday, February 10, 2018
In an address to the General Synod of the Church of England, the Archbishop of the Anglican Episcopal Church, Dr. Sāmī Fawzī, expressed that same-sex marriage conflicts with the teachings of Christianity. He drew attention to resolution 10:1 from the 1998 Lambeth conference, which expressed the...
Date of source: Monday, January 23, 2023
Sālī ʿĀzer has become the first woman to be ordained as a priest at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land. ʿĀzer expressed her hope that her ordination would inspire women and girls to follow in her footsteps. After studying in Jerusalem, Lebanon and Germany, as a priest she...
Date of source: Monday, December 12, 2022
During a meeting with a group of young Copts, Pope Tawāḍrūs II explained the role of women in the Coptic Orthodox Church. He spoke about both Eve and the Virgin Mary, citing them as examples of the important role of women in the Church. Later, he went on to list the different sectors in which women...
Date of source: Thursday, December 15, 2022
On 15th December, the Center for Egyptian Women Legal Assistance held a discussion entitled “Personal Status Laws: between Reality and Aspirations”. The Personal Status Law is among the laws that play an important, and often critical, role in determining social relations. As the law with the most...
Date of source: Thursday, December 15, 2022
Dr. Māyā Morsī, President of the National Council for Women, met with Fr. Rabān Phīllips ʿIssā, a priest of the Syriac Church, to learn about the activities of the Council concerning women's empowerment and to discuss opportunities for the Church and the Council to cooperate with one another.
Date of source: Thursday, November 3, 2022
Dr. Maya Morsī, President of the National Council for Women, said that the national initiative for smart green projects is a pioneering effort in urgent areas, as it seeks to achieve sustainable development goals and address climate change. In her speech, Dr. Morsī emphasized that Egyptian women...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Some people wonder about the conditions when a wife can divorce her husband when he marries or intends to marry a second wife. According to Egyptian Personal Status Law, there are several points relevant to such cases.
Date of source: Sunday, September 11, 2022
Prof. Dr. Hassan Wagieh [Ḥassan Wajīh] is a Professor Emeritus, Linguistics Department, Faculty of Languages, at the prestigious Azhar University in Egypt. Prof. Wajīh is a long-time friend of Cornelis Hulsman, editor-in-chief of Arab-West Report/Dialogue Across Borders. In April 2022 Hulsman...
Date of source: Thursday, October 21, 2021
The Islamic Research Academy launched the first female advocacy convoy of al-Azhar preachers to the Red Sea governorate. Female preachers from various governorates of the Republic participated, under the directives of the Grand Imam, Prof Dr Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib , to advocate the role of female...
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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.