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Date of source: Friday, June 22, 2001
Egyptian Administrative Court ruled that archpriest Salib Matta Sawerus, member of the Milli Council, has the right to enter elections in the fourth district in Shoubra El-Kheima. He feels that Pope Shenouda giving him permission to enter the elections expresses his conviction that Copts should be...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Montasser Al-Zayyat admitted that the amount of understanding in the relation between the late President Sadat and the Islamist groups was in the interests of both sides. Sadat’s interest was disfiguring President Nasser by bringing court martials, violations of human rights, and torture in prisons...
Date of source: Monday, May 7, 2001
The Egyptian Administrative Judgment Court will look into a lawsuit raised against the Minister of Interior and the Coptic Council of Churches accusing them of dishonesty in the last Maglis El-Milli elections.
Date of source: Thursday, April 26, 2001
The Muslim Brotherhood group was able to defeat its Islamic political rivals, the Jihad and the Gama’at Al-Islamiya, in the Bar Association. This was after a crisis started raising questions about the possibility of radical groups carrying out political work in an inappropriate way after their...
Date of source: Monday, April 30, 2001
The Egyptian security forces arrested 11 Muslim Brotherhood members in Alexandria. The group claimed that the measure had been taken in order to prevent them from running in the upcoming election of the Shura Council.
Date of source: Thursday, April 5, 2001
Magdi Hussein was chosen to succeed Adel Hussein as secretary general of the Labor Party. The son of the party’s president considered choosing Hussein to be illegal because the party’s activities have been banned since last May. He believes that choosing Hussein serves only to increase the Party’s...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 3, 2001
Although the visit of the American Commission on International Religious Freedom to Egypt ended, the issue of the visit and the meetings the members of the commission had with religious and public figures are still a hot issue in the Egyptian press. The article gives a list of the articles that...
Date of source: Sunday, February 4, 2001
There is a contradiction between the statements of members of Jihad concerning the initiative of denouncing violence. Nabil Al-Maghrabi surprised fundamentalist circles in Egypt by declaring his support for the initiative. Another statement of support came from eleven leaders in prison. Last month...
Date of source: Friday, January 12, 2001
A number of the leaders of the frozen Labor Party are looking at entering the coming Shura Council elections. The party is also trying to establish itself an unofficial parliamentary front in the People’s Assembly comprising of four representatives, two of whom are Brotherhood members. These...
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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.