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Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 20, 2012
For the third week running, the missionary Al Hayat TV is still airing its programs insolently attacking and insulting the Prophet Muhammad, his wife ‘Ā’ishah and the sahābah (companions) on Nilesat.
Several citizens appealed to President Muhammad Mursī via messages and faxes to the republican...
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 20, 2012
Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius and Minister of Antiquities Muhammad Ibrāhīm co-inaugurated the first museum of the belongings and possessions of Pope Shenouda III, who passed away in March. [Ashraf Sādiq, al-Ahrām, July 20, p. 6] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 20, 2012
Coptic movements and figures slammed a so-called fatwá by Dr. Yāsir Burhāmī, the deputy chairman of the Salafī Da’wah (Call) Movement, rendering as harām (religiously forbidden in Islam) any taxi drivers getting priests to their churches and said “this is worse than driving some people to pubs”....
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 20, 2012
In an early hour of Thursday (July 19), Major General ‘Umar Sulaymān, the former vice president and Egypt’s spy chief, breathed his last of cardiopulmonary problems at Cleveland Clinic in the U.S. state of Ohio. He was 77.
“The Egyptian embassy is now undertaking procedures to carry the body to ...
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 20, 2012
[Reviewer’s Note: Article II of the Egyptian Constitution of 1971 reads, “Islam is the official religion of the state, Arabic its official language and the principles of Islamic sharī’ah are the main source of legislation”. Salafists sought removing the word ‘principles’ or replacing it with the...
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 20, 2012
[Reviewer’s Note: According to the Israeli website NRG, Ben-Ari was quoted as saying, “This abhorrent book promoted the murders of millions of Jews during the Inquisition and the autos da fé…this is an ugly missionary provocation by the Church, there’s no doubt that the book and its senders belong...
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 20, 2012
Another Coptic activist, John Tal’at, called for expelling the Israeli ambassador in response to Ben-Ari’s destroying a New Testament, urging strong actions against such “insolence”. [‘Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, July 20, p. 13] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 20, 2012
[Reviewer’s Note: The paper mentioned that Israeli Member of Knesset Michael Ben-Ari from the National Union Party has burnt a copy of the Bible while he actually tore a New Testament from a copy of the Holy Book and threw it in the trash bin]
Najīb Jabrā’īl, Chairman of the Egyptian Union for...
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 16, 2012
Counselor Najīb Jabrā’īl, Chairman of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization, called on the church to withdraw from the constituent assembly drafting a new Egyptian constitution if a court ruling was not issued to dissolve it.
“The text that makes the Azhar the only reference for the...
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 16, 2012
The activists who signed the statement said Clinton and other U.S. politicians who visited Cairo since the outbreak of the January 25 revolution held a series of meetings that betrayed their and the U.S. administration’s encouragement of political Islam groups while ignoring politicians from other...
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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.