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Date of source: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The number of monks applied for the position rose to seven after Monks Bīshūy and Archpriest Maximus presented their papers and recommendations to the candidacy committee. [Mustafá Rahūmah, al-Watan, May 15, p. 4] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Political powers, parties and movements expressed reservations over the rate of representation of women, Copts and law experts included into the initial report by People’s Assembly Legislative Committee. [Khālid ‘Abd al-Rasūl and Ahmad Ghunaym, al-Watan, May 15, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Monday, May 14, 2012
Some Copts backpedaled on support for Dr. ‘Abd al-Mun’im Abū al-Futūh, whom they used to view as more moderate than the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate Dr. Muhammad Mursī, after Abū al-Futūh gained the support of Salafists.
Copts chose to back the fulūl (Arabic word for remnants) of the former...
Date of source: Sunday, May 13, 2012
Combined army and police force raided several houses in B’ir al-‘Abd and Jilbānah villages in central Sinai on Sunday (May 13) and arrested four suspected of involvement in the largest deal to smuggle weapons from Libyan territories.
Forty surface-to-surface missiles, 11,000 bullets and...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Meanwhile, the general secretariat of the Shūrá Council, the upper house of parliament, has set in an initial report five general conditions and 10 criteria for persons seeking the post of chief editors.
The conditions include an experience in the press that is no less than 15 years, the editor...
Date of source: Sunday, May 20, 2012
The Holy Synod on Wednesday (May 16) held a meeting, the sixth since the death of Pope Shenouda, under acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius.
Emerging from the meeting, Bishop Benyamin of al-Menoufia said the church stands on an equal distance toward all presidential candidates, adding the Holy Synod...
Date of source: Saturday, May 12, 2012
In the first presidential debate ever in the history of Egypt, presidential candidate ‘Amr Mūsá said there was accordance over Article 2 of the Egyptian Constitution, which holds that general principles of the Islamic sharī’ah are the main source of legislation while people of other faiths will...
Date of source: Saturday, May 12, 2012
In the first presidential debate ever in the history of Egypt, presidential candidate ‘Amr Mūsá said there was accordance over Article 2 of the Egyptian Constitution, which holds that general principles of the Islamic sharī’ah are the main source of legislation while people of other faiths will...
Date of source: Friday, May 4, 2012
Residents in Banī ‘Adīy, a village neighboring al-‘Azzīyah village in Manflūt, where the young Copt, Sāmī Ishaq, comes from, blocked a main road and demanded that Ishaq be handed over to them.
A lawmaker of the name Shaykh Bayūmī said the incident was “individual,” adding the majority of Christian...
Date of source: Monday, April 30, 2012
The investigators questioned 53 suspects and later released them all as the case came down to only the stealing of arms owned by the armed forces and filing investigations with the rest of the suspects for lack of sufficient evidence.
The investigators ordered that security agencies keep their...
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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.