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Date of source: Sunday, August 19, 2012
Archpriest Mattias Nasr, Father of Virgin Mary Church in ‘Izbit al-Nakhl, has testified in front of a presidential fact-finding committee looking into the events at Maspero October 2011, which left 27 dead. The committee is headed by Counselor Aymān‘Afīfī, and has investigated accusations from Fr....
Date of source: Friday, February 17, 2012 to Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Michael Meunier, the leader of al-Haya Party, said he would return from the Netherlands to Cairo soon after he was summoned to appear before the prosecution for investigation on charges of involvement in the October 9 incidents outside the state Radio & TV building in Maspero area.
Meunier, in...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 to Tuesday, April 10, 2018
The Coptic Orthodox Church declined to issue a statement on the decision to bar priests Philopater and Mattias Nasr from leaving Egypt after they were accused of premeditated murder, attempted raid on a government building – the state radio & TV office, and setting vehicles and public property...
Date of source: Friday, February 10, 2012 to Monday, March 19, 2018
Dozens of Copts protested outside the office of the president of the Cairo Court of Appeal to reject summoning Archpriest Mattias Nasr, Priest Philopater Jamīl, former coordinator of the Maspero Youth Union (MYU) Rāmī Kāmil and Chairman of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization (EUHRO)...
Date of source: Monday, January 5, 2015
CAWU Researcher Rene Witteveen met with Mina Magdy, General Coordinator of the Maspero Youth Union on October 10th 2014.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Few subjects are so sensitive in Egypt as the conversion from one religion to the other. It is often difficult to find out the truth in such stories with all of the possible interests involved, both of the convert and the people around him or her. One can obtain a better glimpse of the various...
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One of the distinguishing sub-themes of the Egyptian revolution which began on January 25, 2011, has been the proliferation of Coptic movements.
Date of source: Friday, February 10, 2012
A coalition grouping Muslims and Christians for the first time was founded by with the aim of deepening full citizenship and freedoms of opinion and expression in accordance with the international law, the UN Charter, international human rights covenants and the Egyptian society’s norms and ethic...
Date of source: Saturday, December 10, 2011
News is almost never as it appears. On December 1st I went with investigative researcher and former lieutenant with the Egyptian coastal security Intelligence Rā’id al-Sharqāwī to Tahrīr square. The square is currently blocked for traffic by perhaps 2,000 demonstrators asking people wanting to...
Date of source: Thursday, October 6, 2011
Military police dispersed the Coptic protest in front of Maspero objecting the attack on Aswan church. The Military fired bullets into the air and pursued protesters in Kurnīsh al-Nīl street, where six were injured, one of whom remains in critical condition.
Father Mattias Nasr clashed with...
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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.