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Date of source: Monday, September 2, 2013
Security sources said that Hānā Samīr Kāmil, 37, was shot in the Masā’īd district of al-‘Arīsh yesterday afternoon (Sept. 1). The culprits, who are likely affiliated with jihadi groups, fled in a car. Passers-by took Kāmil to the al-‘Arīsh General Hospital, but he died as soon as they reached the...
Date of source: Monday, August 6, 2012
In a bloody terrorist attack by extremist jihādī groups supported by jihādī elements in the Gaza Strip on Sunday (Aug. 5), sixteen Egyptian army soldiers were killed and seven others wounded in the city of Rafah while they were starting to have their iftār meal.
“Jihādists sneaked from the Gaza...
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Yāssīn Jābar was the Lebanese Minister of Economics in 1996. Now he is a member of parliament representing the district of Nabṭiyya. His platform is liberal in its political slant, with an emphasis on Human Rights.
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In April 1996, the south of Lebanon was attacked by Israel during...
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Reinout Vos first introduces himself and tells Hulsman how he began his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and how he came to Egypt. Vos said that he studied history at Utrecht University, specializing in the history of Malaysia and Indonesia. After completing his Master’s degree,...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Presidential candidate Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā described Pope Shenouda as a “patriotic leader who has never bowed to pressures to get involved in sectarian strife from abroad or at home,” adding the pope has stood firmly in the face of divisions.
“Pope Shenouda’s stances were many, including...
Date of source: Sunday, March 18, 2012
“Non-Muslims are free to their own faiths and we have to offer them amity and peace if they do not fight us,” said ‘Awwā during a rally next to the al-Fayoum cultural center on Friday (March 16), adding only true believers (Muslims) will apply the Islamic sharī’ah and be fair between Muslims and...
Date of source: Monday, April 9, 2012
“Christians have the eagerness to visit holy places exactly like that eagerness felt by Muslims to perform pilgrimage to the Ka’bah,” according to an informed church source who did not want his name mentioned.
He denied that those trips to Jerusalem will have any effect on the decision adopted by...
Date of source: Friday, April 6, 2012
Bishop Bisantī of Helwan and al-Ma’sarah said that the Coptic Orthodox Church did not lift the ban on traveling to Jerusalem.
“The 61 Egyptian Copts who traveled will be forbidden from the reception of Holy Communion according to Pope Shenouda’s ordere. Bishop Bisantī said.
He added that a true...
Date of source: Friday, March 29, 2013
A number of 73 Copts left Cairo to Jerusalem City to celebrate Easter at the Church of the Resurrection. Sources said that not only Coptic Catholics traveled but also Orthodox regardless the decision of the late Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III banning visiting Jerusalem during the Israeli...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The Azhar strongly denounces a Zionist officer for kicking the Holy Qur'ān and for abusing a number of Palestinian women who were preserving the Qur'ān in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque or Bayt al-Muqaddas in Jerusalem. The events were part of a series of gross violations against the people and...
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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.