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Date of source: Sunday, September 3, 2006
The author of the article, Arwá Hasan, discusses the different reactions to the proposal put forward by the National Council on Human Rights concerning the removal of religious data from official documents such as identity cards.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Over the past few months, many Egyptian intellectuals and Christian clergy have called for the removal of any reference to religious affiliation from identity cards. Amongst these was Father Marqus ‘Azīz Khalīl, who stated in al-Maydān of August 16, 2006 that the inclusion of religious...
Date of source: Monday, August 14, 2006
The author reports on the workshop conducted by the National Council for Human Rights on the religion entry on the Egyptian ID card.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 9, 2006
The National Council for Human Rights hosted a workshop to discuss the controversial proposal of removing the religion reference from Egyptian ID cards.
Date of source: Saturday, August 5, 2006
The author discusses the prevalence of rumors in Egypt and how often the consequences of such rumors are more serious than their original cause. He notes the work of Drs. Hulsman in researching the factual events of claims of Christian persecution and Muslim outrage and in providing an electronic...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 25, 2006
The Egyptian National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) is to organize several workshops to discuss a number of issues, including the recently proposed unified law for houses of worship and amendments to some articles of the laws governing civil society organizations in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, July 9, 2006
The author deals with the period that saw Dr. Butrus
Ghālī, who
is presently hospitalized in Paris, as Secretary General of the United Nations, his
efforts to reform the
world body and the obstacles he encountered in making his "utopian league of nations" a
reality.
Date of source: Saturday, July 1, 2006
The author advocates for a unified law for building places of worship in Egypt, citing problems in obtaining a license to erecting a house for aged care that was connected to the Holy Virgin Church in Assiut as one situation that would be solved by such a law.
Date of source: Sunday, May 21, 2006
The author lists names of Copts, who have assumed leading positions in Egypt,
noting that
any citizen has the right to assume one of these posts, regardless of his religion.
Date of source: Saturday, May 20, 2006 to Friday, May 26, 2006
The author wonders whether Egyptians are experiencing a stage of creative
chaos, coinciding
with the visit of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Cairo last year. She wonders whether
the people
nurturing this chaos realize that the price of this chaos would be paid by everyone.
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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.