Displaying 91 - 100 of 472.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Robert Fisk, a renowned editorialist in the British newspaper The Independent, said Ahmad Shafīq, the Mubārak loyalist, has the support of the Christian Copts, and Assad has the support of the Syrian Christians. The Christians support the dictators. Not much of a line, is it?
On Saturday, the...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Amidst tension overshadowing the political scene, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) is meeting Tuesday (June 5) with parties represented in parliament as well as some independent lawmakers to discuss means to form a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution.
Members of the...
Date of source: Monday, June 4, 2012
On the other hand, an official source said the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) is likely to issue a complementary constitutional declaration that would set the powers of the president a few days ahead of handover of power to an elected head of state.
The step is expected after the runoff...
Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2012
In another development, the administrative judiciary court in the coastal governorate of al-Ismailia adjourned a lawsuit accusing foreigners of trespassing on about 20% of the archeological spots in South Sinai, in Saint Catherine area, and setting up buildings and brining foreign monks to reside...
Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2012
Presidential candidate Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awā said the most dangerous thing about the voting process is the unprecedented polarization based on Islamic slogans because it depicts persons who do not belong to this camp as if they were opposing Islam.
“Another form of political deviation is the war...
Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2012
The committee registering voters for the papal elections said until Sunday (May 20), the number of candidates for the post reached 18 after Bishop Pachomius, the acting patriarch, and Bishop Mīnā of Old Cairo announced they will not run for the position. [Husnī Mīlād a,l-Akhbār, May 21, p. 3] Read...
Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2012
Bishop Mūsá, meanwhile, said the rates of Copts’ migration are increasing by threefold annually due to fears by the minority to coexist with the majority.
He noted during a conference organized by the Arab team for Muslim-Christian dialogue in a Cairo hotel that there are four mechanisms for...
Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2012
Meanwhile, Bishop Abrām of al-Fayyoum, a member of the papal elections committee, said the panel will announce the final list of candidates for the patriarch post by May 30, adding the committee will continue collecting papers of candidates until May 26. [‘Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, May 21, p....
Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2012
“Each and every citizen has to take advantage of the means of monitoring available in order to achieve maximum integrity and transparency,” he said in statements. [Shādyah Yūsūf, al-Ahrām, May 21, p. 6] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Sunday, May 20, 2012
Meanwhile, the state commissioners authority in Alexandria decided to postpone the first session of a lawsuit filed by lawyers for the Two Saints Church, Joseph Malāk and Samīr al-‘Ādlī, against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Alexandria security director, the prime minister and...
Pages
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.