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Date of source: Sunday, February 3, 2008
Muhammad Hamdī sheds light on an episode of the talk-show ’Hālat Hiwār’ [Status of Dialogue] on Egyptian television, presented by the well-known journalist Dr. ‘Amr ‘Abd al-Samī‘, in which the great Egyptian geologist Dr. Rushdī Sa‘īd spoke about sectarian sedition in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, December 17, 2007
Two sectarian incidents took place in the city of Isnā in the governorate of Qena, causing significant damage to Copts’ properties. Copts refused to accept the ’usual’ reconciliation meetings with Muslims, instead demanding compensation for the damages.
Date of source: Saturday, September 8, 2007
Security bodies, Muslim and Christian men of religion, and members of parliament have succeeded in containing a sectarian crisis in Niqādah in Qinā governorate.
Date of source: Friday, August 31, 2007
Muḥammad Ḥamdī responds to an article published on the official Web site of al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah and written by ‘Āsim ‘Abd al-Mājid, a member of al-Jamā‘ah’s Shūrá Council, about Evangelism in Egypt and the role of Islamic movements in confronting this phenomenon.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Dr. ‘Abd al-Min‘im Sa‘īd, director of Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies says the center is not experiencing any crisis and, like any other institution, it can from time to time go through periods of change and some problems that commonly originate from external rather than...
Date of source: Monday, April 2, 2007
The incident is another episode in the ongoing conflict between Bishop Kyrillos’ supporters and a number of priests who filed a complaint against him.
Date of source: Friday, December 1, 2006
Following the mixed public reaction to the recent statements made by the Egyptian minister of culture, Fārūq Husnī, on the Ḥijāb, the People’s Assembly’s committees for Religious Affairs and Culture and Media held an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the issue. In an attempt to...
Date of source: Friday, August 12, 2005
Al-Sharq al-Awsat has surprised observers of the Islamic political movements by publishing a new book, written by al-Jamāca al-Islāmiyya and entitled Al-Hākimiyya: Nazra Sharciyya wa Ru’ya Wāqiciyya [Governorship: a legal look and a realistic vision]. This book has proved controversial in Egyptian...
Date of source: Sunday, July 17, 2005
The prominent Egyptian writer and scholar Dr. Sayyed al-Qimnī has suddenly declared that he renounces all his previous writings, which discussed Islamic tradition from historical and critical perspectives. He said that he had received an assassination threat from the Jihād Organization via an email...
Date of source: Saturday, June 24, 2000
[Translator’s note: We found it necessary for the reader to distinguish between Shura Council (Maglis Al-Shura), the Egyptian equivalent of the American Senate and the British House of Lords, compared to Majlis Al-Shura (Please note the spelling used), a part of the Gama’at al-Islamiya organization...
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.