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Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2001
The author commented on Tareq Al-Bishri’s article, in which he compared the attitude of the State towards the Coptic youth demonstrations against what Al-Nabaa published to the Azhar students’ demonstrations against the publication of the "Banquet for Seaweed." He believes that the State was very...
Date of source: Friday, July 6, 2001
Bishop Saweris, the confession father of the expelled monk, said that he confessed his sins three months before he was expelled in 1996. The bishop said he tried to reform him after he became suspicious about his behavior. When failed to reform him, he expelled him from the monastic order and...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 4, 2001
The author expressed the opinion that the cancellation of the pope’s weekly meeting was accompanied by fear of a return to the denominational atmosphere of the September 1981 events. The fact that the Coptic youth didn’t protest about Al-Nabaa to the People’s Assembly or the Supreme Press Council...
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2001
The writer believes that the demonstrations by thousands of Coptic youths in the Patriarchate, protesting about what Al-Nabaa published, should not be considered only in the light of Al-Nabaa disaster. He compared between the problem the "Banquet for Seaweed" caused and that caused by the story of...
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2001
The Egyptian press coverage of Al-Nabaa covers areas such as the public’s opinion of the paper, the Virgin Mary mulid [pilgrimage festival] at Al-Muharraq monastery, plus interviews with the Coptic youth who demonstrated in front of the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo and the lawyer for the lady who was...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 27, 2001
Three million Christians and Muslims gathered on the western [Nile] bank in Assiut to celebrate the Virgin mulid. Some of the visitors were asked if they were affected by what was published on the expelled monk. They answered that nothing can affect their love for the monastery.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 27, 2001
Adel Hammouda expressed the opinion that while the church announced that it expelled young priest Daniel who attracted Coptic youth with his modern way of interpreting the Bible and declared he did not follow the church’s education, it did not go public with expelling the monk of Al-Moharraq...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Archpriest Salib Matta Saweris said that the expelled monk committed sins and should be punished according to Egyptian criminal law as any Egyptian citizen. He denied that his crime took place in the monastery or that some emigrant Copts were behind what was published in Al-Nabaa. He believed that...
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2001
The head of Al-Muharraq monastery said that the expelled monk accused him of getting part of the gold which he stole from a woman and of moral matters because he expelled him and refused his return to the monastery. He recounted how the relation of the expelled monk started with the monastery and...
Date of source: Sunday, June 24, 2001
Thousands of outraged Copts converged on St Mark’s Cathedral to express their anger to Pope Shenouda and ask for decisive measures against the newspaper. Watani talked to the Pope and Church leaders; and conveyed readers’ questions about the truth of the story. The shocked public demanded that the...
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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.