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Date of source: Friday, October 15, 2021
The crisis of Copts detained in Libya continues to cast a shadow over their families’ homes in Sūhaj, where a state of sadness prevails the areas of Marāgha and Juhayna. Amid prayers and tears revealing the fate of the Copts who have been detained for two weeks, the families confirmed that there...
Date of source: Friday, February 28, 2014
In al-Marāghah, Suhag, the hometown of the seven Christian Egyptians who were killed in Libya, seven Muslim families decided to postpone their sons’ weddings in solidarity with the families of the victims. Furthermore, thousands of Muslims went to churches raising slogans in support of the...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 22, 2011
A fresh Fitnah Ṭā’ifīyah took place in al-Marāghah city in Sohag after rumors circulated by a Christian teacher that his preparatory school headmistress, Na'īmah Wahīb, severely attacked the Prophet Muhammad and tore the Qurān in front of the students and teachers.
Date of source: Sunday, September 13, 2009
Watani International relates the story of a medical student who was not given the promotion he deserved even though his grades were higher than other students who were promoted. Yūsuf Sidhum reviews the student’s file and believes that this type of discrimination in rife in the education system in...
Date of source: Thursday, April 2, 2009
Young people attack Bahā’īs’ houses in an Upper Egyptian village.
Date of source: Sunday, February 22, 2009
Digging work under a church went too deep into the building’s foundations resulting in the collapse of three buildings and the death of eight people.
Date of source: Saturday, November 11, 2006
The author poses the question whether women in Upper Egypt, who encourage their children to carry out the undesirable traditional habit of feuds...are victims of harsh conditions or semi-criminals.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 13, 2000
Investigations revealed that the military wing of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya was involved in an armed burglary of the Maragha Bank in Sohag. It was said that the military wing of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya robbed the bank in order to finance their fugitive members after the financial aid from abroad...
Date of source: Monday, November 9, 1998
Bishop Bakhoum of Sohag, Maragha and Al-Munsha’a said that the statement of Pope Shenouda III confirmed that what happened in the Al-Koshh events was an ordinary incident, and it has nothing to do with Egypt’s national unity. What foreign papers published were exaggerations that defame Egypt, and...
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.