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Date of source: Thursday, August 16, 2012
Today’s overview includes yet another quarrel between two Muslim and Christian families only nearly a week after the Dahshūr crisis first stirred by a burnt shirt was settled. However, this quarrel in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Sohag has some similarity to the Dahshūr problem; a trivial...
Date of source: Sunday, September 23, 2012
Representatives of the Egyptian churches on the constituent assembly tasked with writing a new constitution for Egypt are meeting with Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb on Monday
Date of source: Sunday, September 23, 2012
The supreme state security prosecution embarked on investigations into a report by lawyers al-Sayīd Hāmid Muhammad and Nāsir al-‘Asqalānī, both are members in the Bar Association’s freedoms committee, against Ahmad ‘Abd Allāh, alias Abū Islām, accusing him of tearing a copy of the Bible during...
Date of source: Sunday, September 23, 2012
A battle of statements flared up between the Salafī Front and the Coptic Orthodox Church after the front lodged a complaint with the public prosecutor accusing three Christian clergymen, including Bishop Serapion, of co-producing the prophet-denigrating movie.
Date of source: Sunday, September 23, 2012
Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius nodded a recent statement by the Los Angeles parish priests assembly that called for not including the name of Bishop Serapion of Los Angeles on the list of persons contained in a report to the public prosecutor in Egypt regarding a...
Date of source: Thursday, August 23, 2012
Reading through the articles of the constitution, I took a long pause at Article 40, which read, “The state shall be obliged to take all legislative and executive measures necessary to bolster the principle of equality between women and men in all political, cultural and socio-economic fields in a...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Coptic activist and parliamentarian Muná Makram ‘Ubayd said Copts have some concerns about losing the right of citizenship, particularly after a string of sectarian incidents that erupted since the January 25 revolution.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Judicial circles are discontented over attempts by the Muslim Brotherhood to sack Vice President of the Supreme Judicial Court Tahānī al-Jibālī over what they called “her animosity against the Brotherhood”.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The al-Haram Appellate Court of Misdemeanor will hand down a ruling in the September 12 session on the case in which top Egyptian actor ‘Ādil Imām is accused of disdaining religion.
The first instance court had sentenced Imām to three months in jail and payment of a bail of LE100 (roughly $17).
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
On the other hand, Dr. Yāsir Burhāmī, a founder of the Salafī Call, the parent organization of al-Nūr (Light) Party, said his movement will call on the people to reject the constitution if the constituent assembly refrained from interpreting the phrase the “principles of the sharī’ah” in Article II...
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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.