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Date of source: Monday, March 6, 2006
Mutāwi‘ Barakāt writes about Egyptian Coptic intellectuals rejection of the idea of increasing the attention that the UN and US have placed on the plight of the Copts in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, July 26, 2003 to Friday, August 1, 2003
A one-day conference was held in London on July 12, under the title “The First Conference for Captives.” It was organized by the International Human Rights Committee affiliated with the Islamic Media Observatory, headed by Yasser Al-Seri, who is an Egyptian terrorist detained in many cases related...
Date of source: Friday, June 27, 2003
The US Copts Association issued a press release on April 3 stating that its president Michael Meunier “will be addressing the U.N.” on the status of the Copts during the 59th session of the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. The formulation “addressing the UN,” sounded very big. Was...
Date of source: Thursday, March 23, 2006
The author argues that while Copts are demanding the application of rulings by the Administrative Court requiring the Interior Ministry to print new identity cards for Christian converts, Pope Shenouda has refused to apply the rulings of the same court concerning remarriage for Coptic divorcees.
Date of source: Thursday, April 8, 2004
Three Coptic organizations in the US submitted a demand to sue the Egyptian government for what the association said is a violation of the rights of Copts.
The documents states that Copts in Egypt suffer from persecution and assaults, and that Coptic Christian women are being forced to convert to...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 2004
Some foreign organizations that advocate freedom of individuals to be homosexual have increased pressure on Egypt to recognize gay rights, regardless of how applicable this idea is to different societies. Human rights organizations in Egypt have reaffirmed the Egyptian society’s conservative...
Date of source: Monday, February 9, 2004
The article is a criticism of Coptic activists in the US, particularly Michael Mounir, the
head of the US Copts Association.
The author explains that Mounir always takes advantage of
some incidents that take place in Egypt, which most times are false, in order to call on the U.S.
to interfere in...
Date of source: Saturday, April 23, 2005
The generator of ugliness, hatred and cruelty, just like power generators, explodes under pressure, which is exactly the case of poor Muslims, who carry a heavy load of pressures from the clerics in our country.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 3, 2001
The writer believes that human rights, part of which is religious freedom, cannot be achieved by investigating or writing reports. Human rights does not mean distributing humanitarian aid. She wonders why, if the US Commission on International Religious Freedom is concerned with the conditions of...
Date of source: Monday, December 21, 1998
Egypt witnessed a flamed scene of sectarianism in the last months of 1998. The reason for that were violations of the police during their investigations of a normal murder crime. The unethical method of investigations transferred the issue into a vicious campaign to defame Egypt and claims that...
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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.