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Date of source: Saturday, March 11, 2000 to Friday, March 17, 2000
In mosques in Heliopolis and Nasr City, a number of female preachers have starting giving speeches. It is doubtful that these preachers have enough knowledge to give fataawi on religious matters. In spite of that, they give fatwas on everything, some of which, as Dr. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi [the dean...
Date of source: Saturday, December 18, 1999
The Evangelical Church is holding a number of public celebrations [in regard to the beginning] of the third millennium. From December 24 and until New Year’s Eve. In addition, preparations are being made for a big concert to be held in the first half of March at the covered hall of Cairo Stadium.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 1999
Over the past decade, the lives of hundreds of Egyptians families were turned into nightmares when they lost all their savings in pyramid schemes. Disguising under the slogan of "Islam-oriented business", those companies swindled Egyptians at home or expatriates working in the wealthy Gulf Arab...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 22, 1999
Reasons are given why some women wear the headscarf and sometimes even cover their face with the nigab and why others don’t do this.
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
It is not easy to defy the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, His Holiness Pope Shenouda III - and get away with it - as the family of one dead clergyman has learned. No one - including some of the pope’s most reliable allies - had anticipated the kind of revenge Pope Shenouda had arranged for...
Date of source: Sunday, August 29, 1999
Hulsman asked three Evangelical pastors in Egypt to comment on the two Rose el-Yousef articles. These pastors are certainly not happy with the publications in Rose el-Yousef. Their criticism, however, focuses on the tensions between churches in Egypt and para-Christian organizations, the...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 1999
Human Rights Organizations have the lion’s share in spreading rumors and lies abroad and, in this way, support extremism. The game is to cry about the lost democracy and freedom and put terrorism in the shape of human rights. They have found their target in trying to abolish the emergency law which...
Date of source: Friday, August 6, 1999
The American Coptic Union produced a declaration in which it accuses the Egyptian government to be responsible for the death of 31 Coptic youth in a bus accident. The Union concludes this is proof of ethnic cleansing against the Copts in Upper Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, July 25, 1999
The Western Cairo-Mina desert road witnessed a horrible accident yesterday. 30 young men and women were killed in this accident. They were all attending Mari Girgis Church in Heliopolis. They were returning from a journey to the Monastery of Virgin Mary in Gebal Al-Teir in Samalout.
Date of source: Friday, June 4, 1999
[Note: The same news was published in all Egyptian newspapers of that day.]
On the morning of June 3, President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak received the Grand Imam Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi the Sheikh Al-Azhar, and 19 prominent muslim clerics at the Presidential Palace in Heliopolis yesterday morning...
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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.