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Date of source: Saturday, February 14, 2015
Well-informed sources inside Egypt’s government revealed that the Education Ministry is implementing far-reaching changes inside its pre-university religious education curriculum. The changes will strip the curriculum of disputed subjects that the Muslim Brotherhood used to propagate its...
Date of source: Sunday, February 8, 2015
The Muslim Brotherhood filed 17 lawsuits against Egypt’s government in a number of foreign countries. The Brotherhood filed lawsuits in countries such as Holland, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the United States, and Ethiopia. The lawsuits aim to damage the image of the Egyptian...
Date of source: Sunday, February 8, 2015
A group of Egyptians in the United Kingdom are demanding that the British government classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. The group said during a petition, “We are Egyptian-British citizens and we are proud of our dual-heritage. We are afraid that we will witness what...
Date of source: Thursday, January 29, 2015
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry expressed alarm over the incomplete version of events presented in the High Council for Human Right’s report on the events that occurred in Egypt on January 25, 2015. The Ministry said that the report completely ignored that the Brotherhood plants many explosive...
Date of source: Thursday, January 29, 2015
Munā Makram ‘Ibīd, a member of the previous People’s Council, said that the golden age for the Copts in Egypt was in the period of liberalism from 1919 to 1952. She justified her claim saying, “At that time we had Sa’ad Zaghlūl as our leader. He was able to join together the Egyptian nation with...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Nādir al-Sirfī, the President of the Union of 38 Copts, reported that he resigned from the Tomorrow’s Revolution Party in order to join the Nūr Party and become a candidate in its ranks. During a press conference, he added that 38 Copts is a social movement and that it does not have an alliance...
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: Monday, January 26, 2015
Opinion: Tensions are rising in Egypt as it approaches the fourth anniversary of the January 25 Revolution and widespread dissatisfaction over the state of freedom and the deteriorating economic situation abounds. The situation can improve in Egypt under the condition that the government abandons...
Date of source: Sunday, January 25, 2015
The Egyptian Interior Minister, Habīb al-‘Adlī, confirmed that Al-Qā ̓eda has no presence in Egypt as an organization, although he conceded that it is possible that the organization has followers in Egypt. Upon being asked whether or not there have been Egyptians recruited by al-Qaeda, al-‘Adālī...
Date of source: Sunday, January 25, 2015
In the aftermath of the military coup that removed the first civilian-elected President in Egypt’s history, journalism has become a dangerous profession. A large number of journalists have died in Egypt such as Shahīd Ahmad ‘Āsim. Many have been wounded, killed, and arrested by the police....
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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.