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Date of source: Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Hamdī Rizq criticizes the media's reaction to the Muslim Brotherhood's planned protests. He says that it is the constitutional right of any legal organization to peacefully protest.
However, he added that since the Muslim Brotherhood is not under a legal party or national association, there is "no...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyib, Grand Imām of the Azhar, discusses several current issues facing Egyptians.
Regarding laws on church construction, al-Tayyib says that if people believe the laws for building mosques and churches are not equal, then the media will highlight this issue. However, he states...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Bishāy laments the significant nature of the intrusion of religion into the recent Egyptian parliamentary elections. This, according to the author, involved "slogans, mosques, churches, and extremist groups addressing people's sentiments."
The news media played a major role in promoting this...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Headline: Egypt's Shī‘ah Forbidden from Celebrating ‘Ashūrā’
Publisher: Al-Wafd
Page: 3
Author: Du'ā al-Badī‘
Keywords: Shī‘ah, ‘Ashūrā’
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Headline: 66 Accused in ‘Umrāniyyah Events Released
Publisher: Al-Dustūr
Page: 15
Author: Nadā Hamdī
Keywords: al-‘Umrāniyyah
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Date of source: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Al-Musawir interviews Ibtihāl Yūnus, Nasr Hāmid Abū Zayd’s wife, after his death. She speaks about his illness and death and about her intentions to continue his unfinished projects and to eternalize his name.
She asserts that he was always concerned with Egypt’s affairs, even when he was living...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
The absence the wife of the priest of Dīr Mawwās and the consequent demonstration of hundreds of Copts, as well as the bishops’ failure to resolve the crisis in the pope’s absence made some suggest that the idea of establishing a committee formed of bishops and members of the Coptic Orthodox...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Al-Musawwar magazine provides a recap of the ‘Umrāniyyah riots, in which two Coptic Christians were killed and over 150 arrested during clashes with police following the stoppage of an illegal church construction outside Cairo on November 24...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 1, 2010
‘Imād talks about the Coptic presence in this past Sunday's parliamentary elections, saying that five candidates won their races outright and five others are up for the run-off ballot. He says that the number of Coptic voters this year has significantly increased due to the larger number of Coptic...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Jamāl talks about the recent “vile” Sayyidat al-Najāh Church massacre in Iraq by al-Qā‘idah which was condemned by the whole world. He says that, while such actions falsely claim to be of a religious nature, they have nothing to do with religion whatsoever. He talks about the threats made to...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Muntasir al-Zayyāt says that he is not worried by al-Qā‘idah’s threats of attacks inside Egypt because he doesn’t believe the threats were made by al-Qā‘idah. He also trusts the Egyptian security forces to keep al-Qā‘idah from entering Egypt. He talks about the history of al-Qā‘idah’s formation in...
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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.