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Beyond Belief: Egypt

17/01/2011

Egypt

BBC Radio 4 - Beyond Belief, Egypt

Ernie Rea and guests discuss the history of Christians and Muslims in Egypt.

Ernie Rea and guests discuss the religious history and make-up of Egypt: what is Coptic Christianity? How does it live alongside Islam? What is distinctive about Egyptian Islam?

Ernie Rea chairs Radio 4's discussion programme in which guests from different faith and non-faith perspectives debate the challenges of today's world.

Each week a panel is assembled to represent a diversity of views and opinions, which often reveal hidden, complex and sometimes contradictory understandings of the world around us. 

In this programme, Ernie Rea and guests discuss the religious history and make-up of Egypt: what is Coptic Christianity? How do Christians, who make up about ten per cent of the population, live alongside their fellow Egyptian Muslims? What is distinctive about Egyptian Islam? How have the two faiths co-existed for 1,400 years and how do we make sense of recent tensions between the two communities?

Producer: Karen Maurice.

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