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Date of source: Friday, November 10, 2000
What the Brotherhood achieved in these elections arouses many questions. How were they able to win these 15 seats? How will they act in the parliament? Are they going to cause a clash in the parliament which they entered after exerting such a great effort? Will they exert an effort to issue a law...
Date of source: Sunday, November 12, 2000
The Brotherhood’s success in these elections is sending many messages to the government. First, beside winning 15 seats, they were able to penetrate the siege of the security around the polling stations because they were able to reach the polling centers in different ways. Second, their success was...
Date of source: Saturday, November 11, 2000
The surprise of these elections was the failing of two great symbols of the Brotherhood, namely, Al-Hodeibi, the deputy of the general counselor of the Brothers, and Seif Al-Islam Al-Banna, a member in the Counseling Office of the Brotherhood while 15 other candidates succeeded in the first and...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 18, 2000
The Bishop of Naga Hamadi said that al-Ahali [See RNSAW week 42 article 3] wrongly quoted him as saying that "the National Democratic Party (NDP) is imposing certain persons whom we do not choose." The Bishop said that "this sentence caused misunderstanding with the members of NDP."
Date of source: Friday, October 13, 2000
Seventy-four Copts are running for the coming parliamentary elections. In spite of this relative large number and in spite of the psychological support they are getting from the political leadership, their path is not furnished with silk. They are facing many problems and hard competition in the...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 10, 2000
The Bishop of Naga Hamadi and Abu Tisht, the secretary of the Tagammu Party and its candidate in the aforementioned constituency, the Director of Al-Homaiat Hospital and many other important persons agreed that Naga Hamadi is governed by corruption, forgery and intimidation. They confirmed that...
Date of source: Sunday, October 8, 2000
The issue of the representation of Copts in the parliament has been in discussion since the constitution of 1923. A proposal specifying that a certain number of Copts be present in parliament was rejected by Copts themselves. They used to reach parliament through direct elections, because the...
Date of source: Saturday, September 23, 2000
The Egyptian government is accused of preventing the Muslim Brotherhood from taking part in the parliamentary elections and gagging the local Egyptian public. But put those accusations aside and you see that in fact all indications show that the government is serious about not mixing religion with...
Date of source: Saturday, September 23, 2000
Subtitles: *Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour: We have contacted some public figures, some have declined due to the difficulty of the political game. *Dr. Refa’at Al-Said: Although we enjoy Coptic support, their number in the party is small, we will not stop to beg for nominees. *Diaa Eddin Dawoud: Their...
Date of source: Saturday, September 16, 2000
Requesting Milad Hanna to participate in the Wafd party is the stone, which was thrown into stagnant water, after the concept of a political monopoly, by the National party, had been established in the minds of the silent majority. Despite the inefficiency of the opposition parties in Egypt, 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.