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Sanne Lundberg’s thesis was about the strong Coptic Christian perception of being discriminated, the interplay of this belief with religious beliefs, as well as
Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2011
The Middle East Media Research Institute recently highlighted a YouTube video issued by the former Muftī of Egypt, Nasr Farīd Wāsil, on May 7, 2011. In his presentation, MEMRI quotes him as saying:
The martyr Bin Lādin, Allah's mercy upon him, waged Jihad for the sake of Allah against the Soviets...
Date of source: Friday, February 11, 2011
Editor: AWR received this text before President Mubarak announced he would step down. Nothing in the media indicated that this could happen tonight, yet it did.
Ever since the demonstrations began on January 25, men of religion have been stressing the importance of them not being transformed from...
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Date of source: Sunday, March 6, 2011
Salafīs opinion about democracy, the second article of the constitution, and Christians.
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2011
On Friday, both Rose al-Yūsuf and al-Ahrār boasted major front-page stories on the Azhar’s decision to freeze its religious dialogue with the Vatican.
Under the banner headline “Azhar Freezes Dialogue with Vatican Indefinitely,” the former reports, “The Islamic Research Academy, in clear,...
Date of source: Saturday, December 11, 2010
Islamic Research Academy issued a declaration to respond to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom report.
The declaration of the academy came to clarify the nature of Islam and answer some of the allegations toward Egypt.
Usāmah 'Ayūb observes that the declaration should...
Date of source: Saturday, January 1, 2011
The United States Department of State recently issued a declaration claiming that freedom of religion in Egypt is underwhelming, saying that minorities suffer from religious discrimination in various aspects of social and political life. After this, it was announced that the Azhar and the church...
Date of source: Friday, December 31, 2010
Members of the Islamic Research Academy presented a draft law that calls for punishing any publisher or publishing house that misprints the Mushaf (original Qur'anic text with a fine of between 5,000 to 100,000 Egyptian pounds and 15 years in jail. In addition, the crime would now be considered a...
Date of source: Thursday, December 30, 2010
An official source at the Islamic Research Academy said that the Virgin Mary movie is just an illusion, saying that the Azhar did not receive any script for a movie involving Virgin Mary. However, he added that the rule of not portraying prophets in movies is applicable in that case, because 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.