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34. New alliances between Expatriate Christians, Muslim Brotherhood, Republicans and Jewish lobby
Date of source: 8 Apr 2010
“Every day, we discover new schemes against Egypt. Expatriate Christians are now getting ready to cooperate with the Jewish Lobby and the Conservative Right in order to force the US administration to change its policy towards Egypt,” Muhammad ‘Alī starts his article. Expatriate Christians are...
38. Five Israeli journalists in special missions in Egypt
Date of source: 6 Apr 2010
By Maḥmūd Muḥyī
Five Israeli journalists went on four trips in Egypt over the last two weeks to convey the situation in Egyptian society to Israel. Nobody knows how these journalists entered Egypt, or whether they got permission from authorities, especially that their missions were revealed only through the...
14. Releasing nine Copts of from among the suspects in Naj‘ Hammādī hours before the Easter Mass
Date of source: 4 Apr 2010
By Dāliyyā al-Hamsharī
 Nabīl Gabriel, vice president of Nūr al-Shams for Human Rights, stated that the organization’s efforts in contacting Dr. Hamdī Zaqzūq, minister of endowments, had succeeded in securing the release of nine Copts who had been detained following the sectarian incidents that took place in Naj‘ Hammādī...
1. Editorial
Date of source: 23 Jun 2010
By Tom Trewinnard
 The juncture between politics and religion is one which, throughout history, has been fraught with tension. In the British classroom, we were led to study how Thomas Becket defied Henry II over his refusal to allow the King to control both church and state, and how Henry VIII’s frustrations with...
2. The Christian woman who disappeared in Mallawī gets married to a Muslim in Giza
Date of source: 13 Apr 2010
By Aḥmad Ḥarbī
The author reports on the marriage of Ni‘mah ‘Ādil ‘Azīz, the Christian woman who disappeared from Mallawī, to a Muslim man in Giza. Ni‘mah ‘Ādil ‘Azīz had converted to Islam. Ni‘mah stated that her family would kill her if they saw her, because for them her death is easier for them than her...
6. The unjust competition between religious satellite channels and the Ministry of Endowment dā‘iyahs threatens Egyptian society with sectarianism and fanaticism
Date of source: 9 Apr 2010
Subhī Mujāhid starts his article stressing that the correct way of preaching affects the society positively and protects it from the threat of fanaticism and extremism. However, he adds, within the recent harsh economic circumstances surrounding the dā‘iyahs and the wide reach of the religious...
3. The rights of non-Muslims in Islamic States
Date of source: 10 Apr 2010 to 16 Apr 2010
By Aḥmad Shawqī al-Fanjarī (Dr.)
Islam is the last of the monotheistic religions revealed to humanity after Judaism and Christianity, all of which resemble one message from Allāh to humanity. These three messages were revealed at various times according humanity’s problems and levels of maturity. Islam requires all Muslims to...
5. Dr. al-Husaynī, “There is no Place for Christians in the Azhar University.”
Date of source: 14 Apr 2010
By Tāhā Farghalī
Q. What are your priorities at the Azhar University? A. I have been helping to formulate the priorities of the Azhar University for seven years and have been helping to implement them since I was a dean of the Faculty of Arabic Language.    My priorities at the university include completing what Dr...
4. Mubārak Resumes his Political Activity with Two Presidential Decisions
Date of source: 11 Apr 2010
By Khālid Mūsā
As his first political activity since his return from Germany, President Husnī Mubārak issued two presidential decisions: the appointments of Dr. ‘Abd Allāh al-Husaynī president of the Azhar University and of Shaykh Ahmad ‘Abd al-Hādī al-Qasabī Shaykh of Sufism.  The appointing of al-Qasabī settles...
8. Controversy Surrounding the Return of Shī‘ah to Study at the Azhar
Date of source: 9 Apr 2010
By Asmāʾ ʿIṣmat
The decision by Ahmad al-Tayyib, the new grand shaykh of the Azhar, to allow Shiite students to study at the Azhar institutions has raised a serious controversy among scholars, some of whom say the decision was not deliberate.   The imām of the World Association of the Azhar Graduates [Reviewer:...
7. But Salafism is a Process… with Roots and Principles
Date of source: 10 Apr 2010
By Zayn al-‘Ābidīn al-Rikābī
Today, salafism is attacked, accused of causing both Muslim backwardness and the regression of Arab-Muslim intellectualism, as well as violence and terrorism. It has also been opposed to ijthād and modernization.   To clear up the misconceptions surrounding salafism, the author begins with a...
9. Are the Copts in Egypt a Pampered Minority?!
Date of source: 10 Apr 2010 to 16 Apr 2010
Hānī Labīb reflects on the question recently raised as to whether the Copts are a pampered minority; according to him, there are fanatic extremists exploiting the notion of the “pampered minority” to distract from the real problems. Hence, this fosters an atmosphere of sectarian tension and ignores...
11. Copts in the Egyptian press and on TV
Date of source: 11 Apr 2010
By Rūbīr Fāris /Robeir al-Fāris (Robert al-Fares)
More often than not Copts complain about the hate messages loudly spewed by the microphones of many a mosque during Friday sermons; in many cases, the verbal attack against Copts is based upon gross misinformation. Such sermons were the topic of a feature recently published by the weekly State-...
10. Attempt to bomb the Church of Jinnāklīs on Holy Thursday prevented
Date of source: 12 Apr 2010
By Tāmir Salāh al-Dīn
  Well-informed sources have revealed that security guards succeeded in preventing an attempt to bomb the Our Lady the Virgin Church in Jinnāklīs in Alexandria on Maundy Thursday.   The security forces present in the church became suspicious of a man who had entered the church, and arrested him,...
12. Forum for Intercultural Dialogue!
Date of source: 9 Apr 2010
Through its near 20 years of experience, the Forum for Intercultural Dialogue, which is now the affiliate of the Anglican Organization for Social Services, has become one of the most important forums for bringing together ideological trends in Egypt. The Forum was founded at the beginning of the...
13. Education and citizenship [1/3]
Date of source: 21 Feb 2010
By Magdi Khalil (Majdī Khalīl)
After discussions of both political Islam’s penetration into the education system and education curricula in his two previous articles respectively, Majdī Khalīl highlights the atmosphere surrounding the education system—both in schools and universities—as the third installment in his series. In a...
14. Banquet for religious terrorism
Date of source: 11 Apr 2010
By Mervat Ayoub (Mirvat Ayūb)
In all the history of literature, one has never heard of a novel that changed a social or a religious principle. Hundreds of novels that broke down the political codes of the Soviet Union were published, but when the regime finally fell it was not because of a literary work but because the ideology...
18. Copts having adulterous relationships because of falsified conversion certificates
Date of source: 12 Apr 2010
By Muhammad al-Sāwī
The Coptic Orthodox Church does not give permission for remarriage to people who have received a civil divorce in court, and considers such marriages, without its permission, pure adultery. This, in turn, forces Copts seeking divorce to change the denomination or their religion altogether.   The...
19. Bishop Mūsá: Extremists lack ‘mind and religion’
Date of source: 11 Apr 2010
By Majdī Salāmah
To think does not contradict with the heavenly teachings and to believe does not abolish one’s mind. This is most evident in the case of Thomas the Apostle, one of the 12 disciples of Jesus Christ. St. Thomas is remembered by the Coptic Church every year on the Sunday following Easter, which is now...
25. ‘Al-Karmah al-Jadīdah’ [New Vine]
Date of source: 11 Apr 2010
By Sāmiyah ‘Ayyād
  Now in its sixth year, al-Karmah al-Jadīdah [New Vine] Magazine published by the Association of Clerical College Alumni provides its readers with scientific and theological knowledge. The content of the magazine is divided into seven sections. The first of these sections is the editorial which...

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