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Date of source: Sunday, November 16, 2008
As a new parliamentary session gets under way, Watani International reignites the issue of the unified law for houses of worship.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 16, 2008
An important international congress on the 13th century Andalusian sūfī philosopher Ibn ‘Arabi has just finished in the Egyptian capital. The author also brings the reader’s attention to two articles about the role of the Muslim Brotherhood and an interesting article about freedom of expression in...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 5, 2008
The establishment of the European Union of Coptic Organizations for Human Rights held a conference on November 8, 2008 in Paris to focus on Copts issues and problems in Egypt and put it in the international limelight. The following lines introduce the conference and shed light on the different...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 30, 2008
The Egyptian press reviews 'Inside Egypt: land of the Pharaohs on the brink of a revolution', whose author claims that Egypt undergoes cycles of revolution, and is due for another one soon.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The author critiques what he views as widespread false religiousness in Egypt, and how this false display of belief is propagated and endorsed by the ruling regime.
Date of source: Sunday, December 30, 2007
The article looks at the aftermath of the sectarian violence in Ísna and comments on the statement from the Egyptians against Religious Discrimination group that condemns the incidents and suggests ways to avoid further sectarian tension in the future.
Date of source: Sunday, October 19, 2008
Watanī presents different opinions toward the draft unified law for houses of worship. The opinions include those of members of parliament and Shūrá Council members.
Date of source: Sunday, June 29, 2008
‘Amr Bayyūmī reports about the suggestion that churches in Egypt form a supreme committee to work on solving problems facing Christians.
Date of source: Sunday, June 29, 2008
The author laments the role that parliament and the media played in increasing sectarian violence by ignoring the bill for a unified law for building places of worship during its last session.
Date of source: Sunday, October 12, 2008
In the last three months Watanī newspaper has pushed hard for the unified law for building houses of worship to be discussed in the parliament. In this article Watanī presents a collection of opinions of members of parliament toward the proposed law.
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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.