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Sherif Gaber, a young Egyptian, has been on the run in his country since The Suez Canal University reported him to the authorities for setting up an anti-Islam Facebook page in 2013. This happened after he openly argued with a professor at the University during a lecture about homosexuality. A...
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Nilewater is becoming scarce and it is clear that a cooperative agreement among Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt is needed to avoid conflict and downstream harm. In May 2015, the three countries engaged technical consultants to assist with these problems, but that arrangement has since collapsed over...
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Excerpts: "A misspelling of her name has kept Salwa Mehrez locked up until today. Mehrez, who studied engineering, was arrested in June 2014 among others who were protesting against the protest law. She was tried and convicted for violating the same draconian law she was protesting against."
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Al-Sisi pardoned 100 young activists and journalist one day before he was set to travel to New York to attend to the UN General Assembly. The decree, officially named No. 386/2015, was quickly branded as an Eid pardon.
Most of the activists released were defendants in the following infamous cases:...
Date of source: Friday, September 4, 2015
Egypt's Ministry of Interior stated that they had cracked down on two terrorist cells of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Monufia Governorate north of Cairo.
Date of source: Thursday, September 3, 2015
Over the past two days, Egypt's primary courts throughout the country opened their doors for thousands of candidates applying for the upcoming parliamentary elections to the House of Representatives. Egypt's Supreme Elections Committee SEC confirmed that the candidates' selection will be fair and...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
The Political Parties Affairs Committee (PPAC) has not yet taken a decision regarding the controversial request submitted by the No-To- Religious-Parties Campaign, which many believe is backed by Egypt's government attempting to exclude political parties based on religious backgrounds from the...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
During a workshop held on Wednesday on “Freedom and Integrity of Egypt's Parliamentary Elections: Between National Legislation and International Principles”, Nabīl Hilmi, dean of the Faculty of Law in Egypt's University of Al-Zaqazīq said: “Instead of seeking the integrity of elections, one ought...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
During a live interview conducted on Wednesday by “Al-Hayā al-Yawm” team, head of Ḥizb al-Tajammu‘ Party and member of the Constitution 50-committee, Hussein `Abd-al-Rāziq said that those who call for a constitutional amendment want President Al-Sisi to become “an absolute ruler”, emphasizing that...
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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.