Date of source: Saturday, May 4, 2002
Because of the criticism in the Egyptian press on Coptic migrants we continued our overview of contributions on the Copts Daily Digest (see for the first overview RNSAW, 2002, week 14A, art. 11). Many responses in the Digest are strongly polarizing.
Date of source: Saturday, February 16, 2002 to Friday, February 22, 2002
The article sheds light on how the Jezira TV and some emigrant Copts, such as, Michael Mounir tried to exploit the incidents of Beni Walmis to give the impression that Egypt suffers from sectarian strife. The author described both the Jezira TV and Mounir and his group as provokers.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 12, 2002
Dr. Milad Hanna (77), a much respected Coptic thinker and politician in Egypt who was awarded the UNESCO Simon Bolivar prize for his efforts in intercultural dialogue, was severely attacked by some Coptic activists in the Copts Daily Digest after his visit with Dr. Kamal Abul-Magd to Washington DC...
Date of source: Monday, January 21, 2002
The Executive Prosecution arrested a Protestant clergyman who is accused of committing an act of swindling. His wife asked the Coptic Association in America to follow the case and pressure the Egyptian government to release him, as he is not guilty.
Date of source: Monday, January 21, 2002
Michael Mounir, representative of the Copts in America, published an article on the Internet. He mentioned that the government demolished a wall around a plot of land that was assigned for building a church in Al-Abour city. Mounir sent a fax to Bishop Marcos of Shoubra Al-Kheima to protest the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 5, 2006
President of the U.S. Copts Association, Michael Munīr, has been severely criticized over his recent visit to Egypt and his meeting with a number of top officials. A number of expatriate Coptic activists have seen Munīr’s visit as "an act of betrayal of the Coptic cause.” Others have regarded the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 5, 2006
In an interview with al-‘Arabī, 38-year-old Coptic activist Michael Munīr asserts that he will continue fighting for Coptic rights.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Political analyst, researcher, author and executive editor of the Egyptian weekly Watanī International Majdī Khalīl, known for his books on citizenship rights, civil society and the position of minorities in the Middle East, speaks out many on Coptic grievances to al-Dustour.
Date of source: Thursday, January 19, 2006
In Al-‘Ālam al-Ān (the world now), a program broadcast on the American Radio Sawa, General Coordinator of the Egyptian Movement for Change-otherwise known as Kifāya [enough], George Ishāq, has rejected the calls of leader of the Washington-based US Coptic Association (USCA), Michael Munīr, to hold...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 11, 2006
In an interview with al-Dustour, Nubian writer Hajjāj Adoul discusses Nubian and Coptic issues in Egypt.