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Date of source: Sunday, July 24, 2011
The Coptic Orthodox Church is seeking to have the unified personal status law for non-Muslims passed as soon as possible, official sources from the papal office said.
The move is intended to prevent a possible crisis between the Church and the judiciary and to address the problem of Copts seeking a...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyah handed its documents to establish its political party al-Binā' wa al-Tanmīyah (Reconstruction and Development) to the Political Parties' Affairs Committee.
'Isām Dirbālah, the head of the group's Shurā Council, said that there are a lot of women and Copts among founders of...
Date of source: Thursday, May 12, 2011
Islamic thinker Muhammad Salīm al-'Awā said that the man who hosted 'Abīr in Imbābah incidents affirmed that 'Abīr told him she did not pray in a year, and that if she returns to her Christian husband, there will be no harm involved except that she will be with a husband that she does not love.
He...
Date of source: Monday, April 11, 2011
A conference was held in Cairo on 10 April 2011 by the Coalition of Women's Organizations, a non-governmental group.
The purpose was to stress the importance of the role of women in democracy building.
At the conference Bothaina Kamel, a well-known TV host, stressed that a woman is capable of being...
Date of source: Sunday, August 8, 2010
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Our reading of the Cairo papers this week takes us to the weekly, State-owned al-Mussawar and the file it recently published on “Do Copts hate the July Revolution?” In his article entitled, “Copts under Jamāl 'Abd al-Nāsir,” Midhat Bishāy attempted to cite both the...
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 2010
The alleged disappearance of a priest’s wife in Upper Egypt is discussed in the article.
Date of source: Sunday, May 23, 2010
The Supreme Administrative Court issues a final ruling in the case of Copts’ second marriage on May 29.
Date of source: Sunday, January 17, 2010
The Azhar women students were obliged to remove their niqāb inside exams halls. Men were duly not allowed in the halls regardless of their positions.
Date of source: Sunday, June 14, 2009
Egypt’s State film censors ban a film dealing with the niqāb because it ’defames Islam and state policy’.
Date of source: Sunday, January 25, 2009
Female circumcision is a very complex issue. This article sheds light on the religious, social, and medical viewpoints regarding practicing circumcision in society. Besides, the church’s firm stance against such harmful habit is stressed through a book by Father ‘Awad
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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.