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Date of source: Wednesday, February 14, 2001
The Governor of Minya said the worshipping tree was an ordinary one and that no concerned body told them that it had historical value. The head of Samalout City Council said they set up a fact finding committee that found out that the tree had no religious or historical value. A researcher in the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 18, 2001
The priest of the Hanging Church denied that he had been reconciled with the Minister of Culture or that he had withdrawn the lawsuits he filed against him in their dispute over the restorations of the church. He added that rains had exposed defects in the restorations and that was why the two...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 27, 2000
Father Matta Al-Maskeen asked the Ministers of Agriculture and Culture to intervene in executing a demolition decree on a farm exporting ducks’ livers. The farm is established on land nearby the monastery of Makarios in Wadi Al- Natrun with its many Coptic antiquities.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 12, 2000
The project of restoring the wall paintings of the church of Anba Antonius in the governorate of The Red Sea was financed with a donation from the American Agency of International Development. The Antiquities Council supervised an Egyptian-Italian team that specializes in engineering and...
Date of source: Saturday, September 23, 2000
Dr. Gaballah Ali Gaballah, the General Secretary of the Supreme Council for Antiquities, issued a decision enabling the Egyptian-German delegation to carry out its work in Tel Basta and to prevent Dr. Mohammed Omar, assistant professor of Archeology at the University of Zagazig, from taking any...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 8, 2000
Aqidaty had an interview with Dr. Gaber Asfour, the General Secretary of the Supreme Council for Culture. In this interview, he was asked about the criticized conference about women. In addition to this he received questions about creativity, Islamic literature and about the Qur`an being a...
Date of source: Friday, July 28, 2000
Al-Akhbar investigated the problems regarding the restoration of the Hanging Church.
The Minister of Culture, Farouq Hosni, said that the Hanging Church is one of the most prominent and important Coptic monuments and an important element in the complex of religious buildings in Old Cairo. It is...
Date of source: Saturday, June 17, 2000
In an interview with Al-Ahrar, the Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, revealed that he accepts the censorship of the Azhar, "only if the work deals with a religious subject". However, in his capacity as an official in charge of culture, he refused to allow the supreme council of culture to...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 24, 2000
The Egyptian Exhibition for Coptic Art started in France with an inauguration by Dr. Gaballah Ali Gaballah, Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Antiquities, as a representative of the Minister of Culture. The exhibition will last until January of the coming year.
Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2000
Last week, the committee for following-up the restoration works of the antique churches continued their meetings at the location of the Supreme Council for Antiquities in the Bahri area. The names of those on the committee are given and an overview of the current work being done on Red Sea...
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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.