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Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2011
Ahmad Kamāl 'Abū al-Majd says that the unified law for building places of worship must be passed. He also supports a law to combat discrimination based on origin, gender, or religion.
'Abū al-Majd alleges that the only one who has an interest in creating division in Egypt is the one who want to get...
Date of source: Sunday, January 23, 2011
In this editorial, Yūsuf Sidhum comments on the outpouring of anger on behalf of many Coptic Christians following the attack on a church in Alexandria that left 24 dead.
Sidhum alleges that this reaction comes not only because of the recent bombing, but as the result of a "long history of blatant...
Date of source: Thursday, January 20, 2011
The article reports that although the forensic final report on the Alexandria attacks is out, security officials still “have nothing to say to media about the bombing”. Al-Qā’idah is still suspected to be behind the attack, after having made several threats to attack churches in Egypt. Pope...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
People's Assembly member Ahmad al-Sahafi wants to know what the Egyptian Ministry of Endowments has done to encourage imāms to push for acceptance and co-existence between the country's Copts and Muslims, especially in light of the New Year's Day attack on a church in Alexandria.
According to a...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 12, 2011
On Wednesday, Coptic reaction to the church bombing was once again a primary focus for Egyptian editorialists. This time, much of the coverage focused on statements by some expatriate Coptic organizations and leaders who have called for a Coptic Christian state to be established in Egypt....
Date of source: Sunday, January 9, 2011
Diana Māhir Ghālī reviews this weekend's opinion articles dealing with the Alexandria church attack...
Date of source: Sunday, January 9, 2011
This editorialist says that the loss Egypt suffered as a result of the recent church attack in Alexandria is similar to the defeat suffered by Israel during the 1967 war. Only this time, he says, one part of the Egyptian community [implying Coptic community] views the bombing as an attack on...
Date of source: Thursday, January 6, 2011
Diana Māhir Ghālī provides a recap of the Thursday opinion pieces dealing with the Alexandria New Year's day church bombing investigation...
Date of source: Thursday, January 6, 2011
The article claims that President Husnī Mubārak has admitted that this has been a bad year for Egypt's Copts, who were victims of several attacks.
He also promised a prompt response to the latest attack and called for national unity, even referring to the victims of the Alexandria church bombing as...
Date of source: Saturday, June 14, 2008
Al-Dustūr reports what Islamic preachers have said during the Friday sermons all over Egypt.
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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.