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Date of source: Saturday, May 15, 2004
A husband whose wife gets divorce based on the personal status code for Orthodox Copts, regulating the affairs of marriage and divorce and other related matters, filed a lawsuit in which he challenged the code unconstitutional. The complainant argues the Holy Bible, which is the first source of...
Date of source: Sunday, May 29, 2005
The pillar on which a society stands is the principle of citizenship, which means that duties and rights should emanate exclusively from affiliation to the nation. The society, likewise, can never be considered civilian without the state itself being civilian, body and soul.
Date of source: Sunday, April 3, 2005
There is need to search for a suitable Coptic candidate to compete with the incumbent Egyptian president, not because it was a right for the Copts guaranteed by the constitution, but because the key objective of the competition is to expand the democratic practices to be genuine in the future.
Date of source: Monday, August 13, 2001
The case of Mamdouh Mahran, the Editor-in-Chief of Al-Nabaa, was reserved to September 16. Mahran’s lawyer said that referring Mahran to the Higher State Security Emergency court was unconstitutional. He asked for the head of Al-Moharraq monastery to introduce a report about the expelled monk and...
Date of source: Thursday, July 19, 2001
During the demonstrations against al-Nabaa in the cathedral, the police held about 36 boys, of whom three were kept for 35 days. It is remarkable that the president of the US Copts Association started a campaign to free them AFTER they had been released. He also claimed that the arrested youths...
Date of source: Friday, June 22, 2001
The author makes comparisons between the way this crisis, caused by a newspaper report, and other similar crises have been dealt with. He feels that the Ministry of Interior is dealing with each opposing power according to their influence. He believes the demonstrations should have urged the...
Date of source: Monday, April 16, 2001
The Egyptian Center for Human Rights asked the legislative institutions to specify a certain number of seats in Parliament for women. At the same time, the Center called all political parties and all NGOs to activate women’s political participation.
Date of source: Saturday, March 3, 2001 to Friday, April 6, 2001
The hair cover of the Muslim woman has different shapes and several names that have to do with the local cultures rather than the rules that had been set by the Islamic Shari’a [Islamic law]. Wearing the hijab [hair cover] is still one of the controversial issues in the Islamic world. This...
Date of source: Friday, January 19, 2001
On January 5, 2001, a group of supporters of Professor Saad Eddin Ibrahim (SEI) and the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies (IKCDS) met with the Egyptian Ambassador to the United States, Nabil Fahmy. The group included Drs. William Zartman, Michael Hudson, Diane Singerman, Judy Barsalou, and...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2000
An Egyptian Coptic lawyer sued to stop state television rebroadcasting the Film "Awan Al-Ward," believing that its topic is offensive to the Coptic community. This is because it mentioned the marriage of a Christian woman to a Muslim man.
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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.