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Date of source: Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Following complaints of torture in Abū Zaʿbal filed on March 19th, The Egyptian National Council for Human Rights tried to visit the prison to survey the situation, but it was not able to get permission to visit the prison until yesterday. Salāh Salām, a member of the council, speaking of a report...
Date of source: Sunday, March 29, 2015
Professor Ahmad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, a previous adviser to former President Muhammad Mursī, said that the decision to add the Muslim Brotherhood’s General Guide Muhammad Badīʿ to Egypt’s terrorism list is the product of the unlawful activities of Prosecutor General Hishām Barakāt. For his part, he...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 17, 2015
“The Muslim Brotherhood today on their official Facebook page accused the Egyptian police of killing engineer Ahmed Muhammad Jabr who is a member of the group as well as kidnapping his wife and two children”. The Egyptian police and courts in Alexandria denied having any information on the...
Date of source: Monday, March 16, 2015
When Father Boulos Halīm, the spokesperson of the Orthodox Church was asked about the Maspero Youth Union and its criticism of the church, Halīm said that the church will not sue whoever criticizes it and that the church only cares about the interests of Egypt. Halīm added that the only way to...
Date of source: Sunday, March 15, 2015
The director of the Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights have said that “corruption in Egypt is protected by law”. He also added that according to the centre’s last report titled “Commercial Activities and Human Rights”, economic elites are dominating the economy and blocking perfect...
Date of source: Saturday, February 28, 2015
The New York Times discovered the identity of the man who was behind recent attacks on banks, stores, and military institutions in Egypt. Shadīd King Bolsen, 43 years old, is a recent convert from the United States and a university dropout. Bolsen’s' radicalization can be traced back to his time in...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 24, 2015
A couple of weeks ago Ayman ʿAbd al-Rahīm wrote three articles on “why the Brotherhood should be dissolved”. Responding to this, Hāmid argues that a focus on the Muslim Brotherhood misses the point, namely the variety of political Islams in Egypt. Furthermore, dissolution of the Brotherhood at...
Date of source: Friday, February 13, 2015
Hāfidh Abū Saʿda, the President of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, repudiated the killing of Egyptian Copts in Libya, describing the killings as racially motivated. In response to the killings, he said “we must confront those who use religion to kill Egyptians and we must confront these...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 27, 2015
The Egyptian Housing Ministry agreed with the request of Pope Tawadros to grant a piece of land in new Cairo to the Coptic church in order to build a supplementary headquarters to the St. Mark’s Cathedral in ‘Abbāsiyya. The Ministry also agreed to increase the area of land designated for building...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 17, 2015
During a TV interview on Egypt's TV Channel TEN, Egypt's Minister of Justice, Ahmad Al-Zind said that the Muslim Brotherhood is the source of all problems that Egypt is facing. He added that the MB wrongly assumes that the pressure exercised on the State would force it to seek reconciliation 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.