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The legal controversy surrounding St. Catherine's Monastery (May-June, 2025)
Date of source: 8 Jun 2025
By Eleanor Bridge
On May 28th, 2025, the Ismāʿīliya appellate court in northern Egypt issued a controversial judgment related to a property dispute concerning St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula. The judgment triggered strong reactions across the Greek Orthodox community and broader Christian world and...
Pope Tawāḍrūs describes Coptic churches worldwide as branches of a tree that exists on the land of Egypt
Date of source: 27 May 2025
By Muḥammad al-Aḥmadī
Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church said that a Central European diocese was established, encompassing five countries and headquartered in Hungary, due to the small number of Copts in the region, most of whom were workers and students in various colleges. The diocese lacked resources,...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Sufi foundation launches scholarly sessions with participation of clerics from al-Azhar
Date of source: 31 May 2025
By ʿAmr Rushdī
Al-Bayt al-Muḥammadī Sufi foundation announced that scholarly sessions kicked off on Saturday (May 31) at the al-Bayt al-Muḥammadī court in the Cairo district of al-Muqaṭṭam. The foundation said the invitation is open to everyone, including women, adding that the Muḥammadan scholarly sessions are...
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Grand Muftī of Egypt says that environment-related issues are no longer "intellectual luxury"
Date of source: 3 Jun 2025
By Ibrāhīm Majdī Ṣāliḥ
Grand Muftī of Egypt Dr. Naẓīr Muḥammad ʿAyyād said environment-related issues are no longer an "intellectual luxury or elite interest" but rather are at the heart of human security topics. "The growing environmental disasters like the vanishing of rivers and dryness of seas are not a universal...
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British court fines man $325 for burning a copy of the Qur’ān
Date of source: 3 Jun 2025
By No Author Mentioned
A man of Turkish descent who burned a copy of the Holy Qur’ān outside the Turkish consulate in London was convicted of a "religiously aggravated public order offense." The British court on Monday (June 2) fined 50-year-old Hamit Coskun the sum of £240 (roughly $325) for shouting offensive insults...
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Foreign Minister of Egypt reiterates the commitment to protect the Saint Catherine Monastery's status at a meeting with European ambassadors
Date of source: 31 May 2025
By Hājar Dīyāb
Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr ʿAbd al-ʿĀṭī reiterated on Friday (May 30) Egypt’s full commitment to preserving Saint Catherine Monastery's unique and sacred religious status, stressing that this status will remain unchanged. Speaking at a meeting with European ambassadors in Cairo, ʿAbd al-ʿĀṭī...
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The court delivers a final verdict over disputed lands of Saint Catherine Monastery in South Sinai
Date of source: 28 May 2025
By Ṣabrī Ghānim
The Ismāʿīlīya Court of Appeal, an affiliate of the Ṭūr Sinai Department, handed down a verdict on Wednesday (May 28) in the lawsuit filed over disputed land plots in the South Sinai governorate, granting the monks of Saint Catherine Monastery the right to use it and the archeological and religious...
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The truth about Saint Catherine Monastery crisis
Date of source: 30 May 2025
By Hishām al-Mayānī
Following a wave of controversy over reports that authorities in Egypt's South Sinai governorate were seeking to confiscate the historic Saint Catherine Monastery, administratively affiliated with the Greek Orthodox Church, and seize its lands, President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī assured Greek Prime...
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Egypt’s parliament passes a law regulating fatwas in the face of difference of opinions between al-Awqāf and al-Azhar
Date of source: 12 May 2025
By May ʿAbd al-Munʿim
As differences emerged between the Ministry of al-Awqāf (Religious Endowments) and al-Azhar, the Egyptian House of Representatives approved on Sunday (May 11) the draft law on regulating the issuance of fatwas (religious edicts), which aims to confront fatwas issued without a legal framework. The...
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Dispute on authority of different bodies to issue fatwas sparks religious and legislative row in Egypt
Date of source: 5 May 2025
By No Author Mentioned
A dispute over the bodies with powers to issue fatwas (religious opinions in Islam) caused a religious and legislative controversy in Egypt as the House of Representatives’ Religious Affairs & Awqāf Committee approved in principle a draft law regulating the issuance of fatwas. The parliament...
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From Living in a Religious Bubble to Interreligious Dialogue
Date of Publication: Sunday, December 31, 2023
By: Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Intercultural and interreligious dialogue brought Cornelis Hulsman from a conservative Christian Reformed bubble in the Netherlands to a deeply ecumenical attitude, refraining from absolutist statements about faith since any religion is the outcome of a human search for meaning in life. Hulsman was asked to reflect on his personal development by
Christian Statistics in Egypt: A Look at the 1986 CAPMAS Census
Date of Publication: Saturday, December 30, 2023
By: Mariam Aly Ibrahim
 The purpose of this study is to present the most accurate data on the statistics of Christians in Egypt. The data were collected by the Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) 1986 census, the last year that the CAPMAS included the number of Christians for the smallest administrative units and computed these in
A Difficult Dialogue with Dutch Arabist Dr. Hans Jansen Who Lost Faith in Dialogue with Muslims
Date of Publication: Friday, December 30, 2022
By: Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
This text about Dutch Arabist and scholar of Islam Prof. Dr. Johannes (Hans) G. Jansen (1942-2015) is based on Cornelis Hulsman’s personal experiences with Prof. Jansen as a student at Leiden University, the Netherlands, but even more on the email exchanges with Hans Jansen in 2008 and between August 1, 2011, and April 5, 2014. Jansen developed a
The Tribunal of Love: The Four Stages of Love in Ibn al-Fāriḍ’s Poetry
Date of Publication: Monday, October 10, 2022
By: Lara Gibson
Lara Gibson participated in the CAWU-Heliopolis University summer school between June 27 and July 6, 2018, and interned with our center between July 8 and October 4, 2018. Lara studied Arabic language and culture at Durham University, UK. In her letter of motivation, she wrote “your programme appeals to me primarily because of the hands-on and
Bubastis, Capital of Egypt and Ezekiel, The Prophet in Exile
Date of Publication: Wednesday, December 22, 2021
By: Konrad Knolle
After the publication of Be Thou There; the Holy Family’s Journey in Egypt (AUC Press, 2001), Cornelis Hulsman organized a number of ‘pilgrimages’ to locations of the Holy Family in Egypt. One of these was with the German Evangelical Church in Boulaq, Cairo, to Tal Basṭa, Bubastis in the prophecy of Ezekiel. Bubastis had been the capital of Egypt
Israeli Apartheid? A Critical Analysis of a Contentious Debate
Date of Publication: Tuesday, November 30, 2021
By: Britt van Rossum
Over the last few decades, comparisons have continuously been drawn between Israel and its policies and the system of South African apartheid. Certain events in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have given impulses to the use of this analogy, such as the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory after the Six-Day war in 1967, the
Political violence, activism and conflict
Date of Publication: Thursday, November 18, 2021
By: Janneke Wijman
This research explores the question as to how Wasatia as an Islamist movement seeks to represent the Palestinian moderate voice in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is examined through an in-depth interview with the founder of the movement, content analysis, and the use of a theoretical framework that combines nonviolence, social movement
Copts during the first century of Islam and that history’s relevance today
Date of Publication: Sunday, November 14, 2021
By: Harald Suermann (Prof.) (Dr.)
The Arabic or Islamic conquest of Egypt in 639-642 CE had far-reaching consequences. Discussions of this historical event play a major role in modern Muslim-Christian discussions. Christians speak of a conquest whereas Muslims tend to speak of the opening of Egypt or liberation of Egypt from its Roman/Byzantine occupiers. The shifting views of
Efforts of foreign governments trying to influence politics in Egypt; An Egyptian Ambassador’s views on Dutch-Egyptian relations after President Mursī had been removed from power in 2013
Date of Publication: Sunday, December 27, 2020
By: Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
The following text contains sensitive information and highlights various concerns from an Egyptian ambassador regarding foreign influence on political and environmental decisions and movements in Egypt. A lot of the content regards European countries, a focus on questionable Dutch decisions in the period the Muslim Brotherhood tried to come to
Between science, belief and wishful thinking: Reviewing Dr. Maḥmūd ʿUmar’s “The Well of the Holy Family in Tal Basṭa.”
Date of Publication: Wednesday, December 23, 2020
By: Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Having a PhD degree is not a guarantee for good academic work. Dr. Mahmoud Omar [Maḥmūd ʿUmar] may have been a good archeologist, but he ruined his own academic reputation by interpreting medieval traditions as historical facts, as descriptions that have actually happened. “What we today understand as ‘facts’ did not exist centuries ago,”

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Egypt's Draft Constitution Rewards the Military and Judiciary'
Date of source: Sunday, December 1, 2013
By: LinkedIn
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EGYPT,BACK TO MILITARY RULE: ''Egypt's Draft Constitution Rewards the Military and J
Egyptian Christians fear chaos after wedding bloodshed
Date of source: Monday, October 21, 2013
By: Reuters
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By: Yasmine Saleh
Egypt's Coptic community in fear following attack outside church
Date of source: Monday, October 21, 2013
By: Radio Vatican
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(Vatican Radio) Egypt’s government and religious leaders have condemned an attack outside a Coptic church in Cairo on Sunday that killed four people including an 8 year old girl.
Egyptian Muslims, Copts clash in Minya
Date of source: Friday, November 29, 2013
By: World Bulletin
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Egyptian Muslims, Copts clash in Minya The violence erupted in Al-Badrman village over an alleged love affair between a Coptic man and a Muslim woman, the source said. World Bulletin / News Desk
“Another night on Earth” - Egypt through taxi conversations -
Date of source: Tuesday, October 22, 2013
By: Your Middle East
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Does the back seat of a taxi sound like a boring set for a documentary? If so, think again. Director David Muñoz shows how the chaotic traffic scene in Cairo is full of interesting conversations.
Sisi’s Egypt
Date of source: Friday, November 8, 2013
By: openDemocracy
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A look inside the life of a Christian Copt
Date of source: Sunday, November 24, 2013
By: The Daily Campus
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After Retaking of Delga, Christians Terrorized in Other Towns in Egypt
Date of source: Monday, November 25, 2013
By: Assist News Service
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By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries
Muslim Brotherhood Practices Politics Through 'Terrorist' Ideology
Date of source: Friday, October 18, 2013
By: AINA (Assyrian Intl. News Ag.)
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The Muslim Brotherhood is practicing politics through a terrorist ideology, claims Nabil Metry, a member of the Executive Office of the Regional Association of Non-Governmental Organizations.
Egypt’s new protest law provokes demonstrations, backlash
Date of source: Tuesday, November 26, 2013
By: Al Monitor
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CAIRO — It took only minutes for activists to witness Egypt’s controversial new protest law in action on Nov. 26.

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The One-Year Anniversary of the Two Saints' Church Bombing
Newsletter Number: 25
Year: 2011
Merry Christmas From Arab West Report!
Newsletter Number: 24
Year: 2011
Dutch Broadcaster Wrong to Report that Coptic Christians Burned Their Own Church
Newsletter Number: 23
Year: 2011
AWR Revisits Violent Events Leading up to Egypt's Parliamentary Elections
Newsletter Number: 21
Year: 2011
Egyptian Election Procedures May Represent Improvement over Past for Copts.
Newsletter Number: 20
Year: 2011
Does Shari'a Really Prohibit Building Churches?
Newsletter Number: 19
Year: 2011
Analyzing Video Evidence from Maspero: Bloody Confrontations following the Coptic Protest of October 9, 2011
Newsletter Number: 18
Year: 2011
Clashes, Deaths at Coptic Protest in Cairo
Newsletter Number: 17
Year: 2011
Burning the Dome: AWR Investigates Sectarian Violence in Upper Egyptian City of Edfu
Newsletter Number: 16
Year: 2011
Storming the Israeli Embassy: The Greater Context
Newsletter Number: 15
Year: 2011

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