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Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 6, 2011
Following the NOS reporting and responses I asked Lamis Yehya, who had joined me in the visit to Mārīnāb to come to our office in Cairo.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 6, 2011
Veteran journalist Lex Runderkamp visited Egypt to report about what happened on September 30th in Mārīnāb. He reported for Dutch TV, in prime time, on November 26th [Title: “Conflict between Copts and Muslims is complicated”].
Date of source: السبت, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 19, 2011
On November 28, the first round of the elections for Egypt's parliament (the People's Assembly or Majlis Al-Sha'b), start in Egypt. The Egyptian parliament will consist of 498 members.
Of these, a third of the seats (166 members) are elected by absolute majority vote in their own electoral district...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 14, 2011
When I saw the report of MEMRI about Egyptian cleric Muḥammad ʿAbdū I was reminded of Tim Cavanaugh’s critique on MEMRI in 2002 that MEMRI does not need to travel very far to cherry-pick offensive comments.
MEMRI presented excerpts from ʿAbdū speaking on al-Ḥikmah TV on September 20, 2011. al-...
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 4, 2011
PVV spokesman for Foreign Affairs, Raymond de Roon, MP for the party of Geert Wilders, published on October 11th a blacklist of “Islamic Violence Against Christians in Egypt in 2011”. This list is a simplified version of what was previously published in (internet) publications in the West—many of...
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 4, 2011
Contents I. Jansen’s argument: Copts are killed when they violate the Shari’a II. My comment: Jansen should have mentioned the general lack of security in Egypt III. Jansen does not know about the construction of new churches in recent years IV. Does the Shari’a prohibit the building of churches...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 1, 2011
Journalist Muhammad al-Baz recently caused a stir by claiming in al-Fajr, October 20-24, that a Civil Registry Department official cited on the basis of birth certificates and National ID cards that the number of Coptic Christians (of all denominations) is at 17 million in Egypt and 3 million...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 1, 2011
Between March and October of 2011, AWR interviewed a lawyer from ‘Ātfīh, Bāsim Majdī Greis, as well as other notables, about the events occurring in Sūl, ‘Ātfīh beginning in 2000 leading up to the church-burning in 2011. Bāsim speaks of the killing of local Christian, 'Ayād Fakhrī, who began...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 17, 2011
Prof. Inas Barsoum and Dr. Afaf Badran are both active members of the Egyptian Moral Rearmament Association. I have come to know this group of patriotic Muslim and Christian Egyptians as a wonderful people who are truly dedicated to peace and understanding between Muslims and Christians. Who...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 11, 2011
AWR intern Lamis Yehya and I went to Mārīnāb on October 1, only hours after the church burning and before the investigation committee had arrived. I believe this article provides an excellent record of what has happened. It appears to be based on the report of a fact-finding commission that...
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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.