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Date of source: 21 Apr 2025
Social media platforms were filled with posts mourning the death of Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Catholic Church, who passed away on Monday at the age of 88 after suffering from various illnesses during the twelve years of his papacy. Many Christian figures in Jordan and...
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Translator Maé Lefèvre
Date of source: 5 May 2025
Date of source: 29 Apr 2025
Following the murder of a young Muslim in a mosque in the Gard region of southern France, the French Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, has been accused of stirring up hatred against Muslims, particularly by the left, which has protested against the minister's "double standards." The...
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Translator Joelle Elise Mayoraz
Date of source: 21 Apr 2025
Grand Imām of al-Azhar Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb mourned Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church, who passed away on Monday (April 21), praising him as a man who "dedicated his life to serving humanity, advocating for the oppressed, and supporting interfaith and intercultural dialogues."
"Today, the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 27 Apr 2025
Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church said extremism was no longer confined to misunderstanding of religion, adding, "We live in a complicated time marked by widening secularism, rigid ideologies, and isolation."
"We are witnessing new forms of secularist extremism that are eschewing faith...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 19 Apr 2025
Dr. Andrea Zakī, Head of the Evangelical Community in Egypt, said the call made by Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church to unify festivities was a good step for closer ties between Eastern and Western churches.
"I support this call. It was a coincidence this year that all churches around...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 20 Apr 2025
On a Sunday morning, the Resurrection of Jesus was a new proclamation of God's vision for humanity: life, not death; hope, not despair; reconciliation, not estrangement.
In our contemporary world, groaning under wars, conflicts, and religious, intellectual, and political divisions, the world is in...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 20 Apr 2025
President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī on Sunday (April 20) congratulated Coptic Christians on the occasion of Easter.
"Coptic sons of Egypt, I offer sincerest congratulations and best wishes for the glorious Easter, praying to God Almighty to protect Egypt and its people and keep it always as a beacon...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 21 Apr 2025
Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who is running the affairs of the Holy See in the Vatican, announced in a statement the death of Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church on Monday (April 21).
"At 7:35 (0535 GMT) this morning the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the house of the Father. His entire life...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 25 Apr 2025
Date of source: 22 Apr 2025
Palestinian minister of state for foreign affairs and expatriates, Dr. Varsen Aghabekian Shāhīn, praised Pope Francis, describing him as one of the greatest symbols of the nation who was truly committed to the cause of justice worldwide. She said, "In these difficult and unprecedented circumstances...
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Translator Maé Lefèvre
Date of source: 22 Apr 2025
His Holiness Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the Holy See of Saint Mark, said, "We offer our condolences to the entire world following the death of this man who served all of humanity, Pope Francis. His 12 years on the pontifical throne in Rome were filled with work, activity...
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Translator Maé Lefèvre
Date of source: 22 Apr 2025
Lebanese President Joseph ʿAoūn mourned the death of His Holiness Pope Francis, who passed away on Monday. He dedicated himself to peace and humanity, calling for love and confronting hate.
"This is a loss for all of humanity. He was a powerful voice for justice and peace, a champion of the poor...
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Translator Jack Heron
Date of source: 22 Apr 2025
President ʿAbd el-Fattāḥ el-Sīsī has delivered a number of messages conveying the state’s vision for raising moderate and responsible individuals who are capable of making positive contributions to our society, highlighting the importance of emulating Imam al-Sayūṭī as a role model, as he made an...
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Translator Jack Heron
Date of source: 3 Apr 2025
Dr. Muḥammad Abū Hāshim, a member of the Supreme Council of Sufi Orders, said the Shāzlī order is one of the most prominent Sufi schools that have been founded on the Holy Qur’ān and the Sunna, asserting that the right Sufism is not about renouncing the world.
"The founder, Imām Abu al-Ḥasan al-...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 12 Apr 2025
Christian denominations around the world will celebrate Palm Sunday tomorrow, April 13. This day marks the seventh Sunday of Great Lent, a 55-day fasting period that concludes with the celebration of Easter Sunday on April 20, 2025.
Churches worldwide are getting ready for Hosanna Sunday, popularly...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 22 Apr 2025
The former Israeli ambassador to Italy, Dror Eydar, sharply criticized Pope Francis the day after the announcement of his death, calling on the Jewish state not to attend his funeral.
Pope Francis, a central figure in the Vatican since 2013, died on Monday at the age of 88, prompting a...
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Translator Joelle Elise Mayoraz
Date of source: 21 Apr 2025
It is with infinite sadness that the Great Mosque of Paris has been informed of the death of Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church and an emblematic figure of interreligious dialogue and human brotherhood, on Easter Monday.
Shams al-Dīn Ḥāfiẓ, Rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, the religious...
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Translator Joelle Elise Mayoraz
Date of source: 13 Apr 2025
Hundreds of Christian believers participated in the Palm Sunday procession in Jerusalem. The procession started from the Monastery of Bayt Fajjār in the town of Al-Tūr and passed through the streets of the town, including the road to the Church of Gethsemane, the Church of Santa Maria, and the road...
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Translator Maé Lefèvre
Date of source: 13 Apr 2025
A pastor of the Anglican Cathedral of St. George in Jerusalem said, "The Israeli occupation’s bombardment of al-Ahlī Hospital in the city of Gaza, rendering it out of service on Palm Sunday, is insulting all Christians and violates all rules of human behavior."
"During the early morning hours of...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 13 Apr 2025
Israeli occupation authorities denied Christians from the West Bank access to the occupied city of Jerusalem to attend the Palm Sunday celebrations, according to the Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA).
Eastern and Western churches celebrate Palm Sunday, the last Sunday before Easter and...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 13 Apr 2025
The Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine strongly condemned the odious crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces as they bombed the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, run by the Anglican Church in Gaza City, on Palm Sunday, one of the holiest days for Christians. The committee...
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Translator Maé Lefèvre
Date of source: 12 Apr 2025
Many wonder about the possibility of the marriage between Christians of different denominations. In light of this, the Coptic Orthodox Church has agreed on a new set of rules regarding marriage, which aim to regulate personal status within the sect. Foremost among these rules is the requirement...
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Translator Jack Heron
Date of source: 13 Apr 2025
Archpriest Mūsa Ibrāhīm, spokesperson for the Coptic Orthodox Church, has expressed his solidarity with Christians in the West Bank after the Israeli occupation prevented them from reaching Jerusalem to celebrate Palm Sunday in the city’s churches, in particular the Church of the Holy Sepulchre....
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Translator Jack Heron
Date of source: 10 Apr 2025
On Wednesday, 9 April, Emmanuel Macron announced that France could recognize a Palestinian state "in June" at a conference it will co-chair with Saudi Arabia at the United Nations in New York, which, according to him, would also lead to the recognition of Israel by a number of countries.
"We must...
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Translator Joelle Elise Mayoraz
Date of source: 10 Apr 2025
On April 7 and 8, Emmanuel Macron traveled to Cairo to meet his Egyptian counterpart, ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī. The visit gave the two heads of state an opportunity to discuss bilateral relations between the two countries, as well as the "unbearable situation" in the Gaza Strip.
Emmanuel Macron,...
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Translator Joelle Elise Mayoraz
Date of source: 1 Apr 2025
Today (Tuesday) marks the anniversary of the death of Dr. Maḥmūd Ḥamdī Zaqzūq, the former Minister of Awqāf (religious endowments), who passed away on April 1, 2020.
Zaqzūq, born in the governorate of al-Daqahlīya on December 27, 1933, obtained his university degree at the Faculty of Arabic...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 2 Apr 2025
Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Elders Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Salām welcomed a South African Council of Churches delegation at the Council's headquarters in Abu Dhabi.
The delegation included Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana, former General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches; Bishop...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 4 Apr 2025
A Palestinian scholar and a former student of al-Azhar said that he felt relieved by a phone call from Grand Imām Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, who expressed support and appreciation for the struggling Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip under cruel and calamitous circumstances.
"Despite the tough...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 6 Apr 2025
The 2nd edition of a program on producing promising female leaders was inaugurated under the patronage of Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, Grand Imām of al-Azhar, and Dr. Salāma Dāwūd, President of al-Azhar University.
"The event tackled the issue of empowerment of women," said Dr. Muḥammad Fikrī Khiḍr, Vice-...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 2 Apr 2025
I would like to extend my congratulations on this occasion of ʿEid al-Fiṭr to all of our Muslim brothers who are celebrating in Egypt and across the world, praying to God for joy and peace in our country and for our people, as well as over the region and the rest of the world. Today, Coptic...
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Translator Jack Heron
Date of source: 16 Mar 2025
As Eīd al-Fiṭr approaches, Muslims around the world are preparing to pay the Zakāt al-Fiṭr, an obligatory almsgiving that symbolizes solidarity and generosity. In Algeria, the amount of these alms for 2025 has been officially announced by the religious authorities.
The Ministry of Religious Affairs...
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Translator Joelle Elise Mayoraz
Date of source: 6 Apr 2025
Date of source: 5 Apr 2025
Date of source: 23 Mar 2025
Bishop Paula (Būla), the Archbishop of Tanta and its suburbs and the person responsible for personal status law within the Coptic Orthodox Church, confirmed that the new Personal Status Law for Christians has set the age of a minor to be under 21 years, instead of 18 years, as is the case in other...
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Translator Maé Lefèvre
Date of source: 18 Mar 2025
Sāndī Girgis, a young Christian woman, is engaged in charity activities during the holy fasting month of Ramaḍān to hand out ifṭār (fast-breaking) meals she had cooked at her home in the streets of the coastal province of al-Ismāʿīlīya, where she lives, giving them to the poor and needy.
Girgis has...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 19 Mar 2025
Rev. Dr. Andrea Zakī, head of the Evangelical community in Egypt, expressed "deep appreciation" for the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, and for his "pioneering role in promoting the values of tolerance and peace."
He emphasized that Dr. Ṭayyīb is a "global religious figure and a...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 31 Mar 2025
In a beautiful display reflecting love and friendship, Christians in Syria sent a joyful message to Muslims on the occasion of ʿEīd al-Fiṭr.
Stood outside Our Lady’s Church in Damascus, a Christian choir sung a message of congratulations to Syrian Muslims to the tune of the song "The Full Moon Has...
Reviewed by Jack Heron
Translator Jack Heron
Date of source: 24 Mar 2025
The former Grand Mufti of Egypt and member of the Council of Senior Scholars at Al-Azhar, Sheikh ‘Alī Gomʿa, answered a question from one of the youths: "If a Christian dies as a martyr for the country, does he go to Heaven?" Gomʿa said, "This is something that should be discussed within the...
Reviewed by Maé Lefèvre
Translator Maé Lefèvre
Date of source: 26 Mar 2025
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Date of Publication: Sunday, December 31, 2023
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
Date of Publication: Saturday, December 30, 2023
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
Date of Publication: Friday, December 30, 2022
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
Date of Publication: Monday, October 10, 2022
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
Date of Publication: Wednesday, December 22, 2021
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
Date of Publication: Tuesday, November 30, 2021
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
Date of Publication: Thursday, November 18, 2021
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
Date of Publication: Sunday, November 14, 2021
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
Date of Publication: Sunday, December 27, 2020
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
Date of Publication: Wednesday, December 23, 2020
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,”
Date of Publication: Monday, June 8, 2020
The paper aims at presenting the religious education at the German School in Cairo (DEO) as one of the very few examples of schools offering interreligious education in Egypt. In order to give the cooperative religious education at DEO a fair examination, interviews were carried out with students and teachers at the school. The author explains
Date of Publication: Thursday, April 30, 2020
Throughout his life, AWR friend Henk Glimmerveen (1923-2020) showed that engaged citizens can make a difference. He was an extremely effective activist for Christian migrants from Turkey in the Netherlands in the 1980s (please see my in-memoriam about this remarkable man). Henk was a keen observer and a critical one, not just accepting any story
Date of Publication: Sunday, April 26, 2020
This paper begins by reviewing Egypt’s post-2011 transition prior to 2013, which includes briefs on the 2011-2012 parliamentary elections, the 2012 presidential elections, and unrest and sectarian violence during the period between Ḥusnī Mubārak’s overthrow and the summer of 2013. The paper then transitions to the period following July 2013 and
Date of Publication: Monday, December 23, 2019
For decades now, Egyptian Coptic Christians and Muslims have been citing widely diverging numbers for the percentage of Christians in Egypt. In the absence of reliable, published data, the figures vary wildly, anywhere from 6 to 24 percent of population. Typically, figures claiming high percentages of Christians in the country correlate with
Date of Publication: Sunday, December 1, 2019
As President of the Republic of Egypt, Muḥammad Anwar al-Sādāt distinguished himself for various domestic and foreign policy reforms having a long-lasting impact on the history of Egypt, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the whole region. Most notably, his 36-hour visit to Jerusalem and his speech at the Knesset represented a major pivotal event for
Date of Publication: Thursday, November 28, 2019
Milestones (Maʿālim fī al-Tarīq, 1964), one of Sayyid Quṭb’s most prominent books, is widely renowned as a cornerstone of most of contemporary radical Islamic movements. While the book contains several references to the need for violent action in order to fight the condition of ignorance (Jāhilīyah)of the time, it equally includes a message based
Date of Publication: Monday, June 10, 2019
Abstract
This paper aims to gain insight into future political scenarios of Egypt by analyzing the Islamic political and religious ideologies in conjunction with their political strategies. It portrays the relationship between religion and politics in the Middle East in general, and Egypt in specific. In further analysis, it explores the
Date of Publication: Monday, March 25, 2019
Political and social theorist Sir Isaiah Berlin famously compared nationalism to a ‘bent twig’, ‘forced down so severely that when released, it lashed back with fury’ (Berlin 1972). Berlin referred to the resilience of nationalism in the face of purportedly countervailing trends such as sectarianism, multiculturalism and competing sources of
Date of Publication: Monday, November 5, 2018
Writing in 1999 for al-Usbūʿ newspaper, Hānī Zayyāt and Muṣṭafā Sulaymān expressed their disbelief that the United States’ International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 appeared to condone freedom of worship for Egyptian Bahāʾīs. They noted that the Bahāʾī Faith was ‘not a revealed religion, and nobody could set himself up to be its defender. This
Date of Publication: Monday, October 29, 2018
Egypt has been deeply divided between sympathizers of the Muslim Brotherhood and their opponents. This has resulted in Islamic thinker ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ ʿAsākir publishing in July 1996 a book titled “Al-Ḥaqāʾiq bī al-Wathāʾiq ʿan al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn” (The Documented Truths on the Muslim Brotherhood).” The second updated edition of this book
Date of Publication: Tuesday, September 25, 2018
The Center for Arab-West Understanding had faced numerous obstacles from the moment the founders wanted to establish the organization in 2004, despite its lofty goal of facilitating understanding between communities in Egypt and the Arab World and the West, through producing material for Arab-West Report, and hosting interns from Egypt and around
Date of Publication: Monday, September 17, 2018
ABSTRACT
This report is an outline of the brief discussion on August 5, 2018, between Libyan representatives (Mr. Abdulmajid Zuwama Alothmani [ʿAbd al-Majīd Zūwāmah al-ʿUthmānī], former Minister of Agriculture and current PDG of Libyan Petrol and Gas), Mr Ahmed Shawki Mansour [Aḥmad Shawqī Manṣūr], the GM at the International Marketing
Date of Publication: Thursday, August 30, 2018
This paper was prepared by the two interns from India: Riya Garg, pursuing BA LLB, and Vishesh Anand, pursuing BBA (Oil and Gas Marketing) from University of Petroleum & Energy Studies Dehradun, who interned with the Center for Arab-West Understanding in Egypt between June 6 and July 15, 2018, under the guidance of Drs. Cornelis Hulsman (
Date of Publication: Sunday, August 5, 2018
In the changing dynamics of the power structure in the Middle East, Egypt undeniably has been one of the most important actors. The geographic position of the country makes it a vital location in the region and the country controls the Suez Canal that links the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. This is the shortest link connecting the East and the
Date of Publication: Monday, April 16, 2018
The 2014 Egyptian Constitution; Perspectives from Egypt
Diana Serôdio/Cornelis Hulsman (ed.)
Foreword by H.E. Amr Moussa, Chairman of the Constitutional Assembly of 2013
Published in: Anwendungsorientierte Religionswissenschaft
Herausgegeben von Ulrike Bechmann und Wolfram Reiss
@Tectum Verlag Marburg, 2017
After President Hosni Mubarak was
Date of Publication: Monday, April 16, 2018
From Ruling to Opposition
Islamist Movements and Non-Islamist Groups in Egypt 2011-2013
Cornelis Hulsman (ed.)
Foreword: Ambassador Mona Omar
Published in: Anwendungsorientierte Religionswissenschaft
Herausgegeben von Ulrike Bechmann und Wolfram Reiss
@Tectum Verlag Marburg, 2017
After the deposition of President Husni Mubarak in the year 2011,
Date of Publication: Sunday, March 20, 2016
China’s Muslims, a diverse minority of approximately 23 million people, have played an influential role in Chinese foreign policy throughout the past century. Since the 1930s, Chinese governments have employed the transnational ties of the Muslim minority, as a diplomatic tool to establish and strengthen its ties with Islamic countries As one
Date of Publication: Monday, December 14, 2015
During the writing of this paper, after the holy month of Ramadan (June 18-July 17) in 2015, the season of crossing the Mediterranean Sea by hundreds if not thousands of refugees is approaching its peak. All over the European media it can be read and seen that the countries on the borders of the European Union are facing high arrival numbers of
Date of Publication: Wednesday, September 30, 2015
The following study aims to explain the process of racism by defining both the biological and social concept of race. The author subsequently builds on this to describe the question of racism of Somalis in Cairo, Egypt. Somali migrants started to come to Egypt in the 1960's. The author interviewed both Somalis in Egypt as well as Egyptians for
Date of Publication: Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Christianity in the Arab World was flourishing in relative terms prior to the First World War and consequent break-up of the Ottoman Empire. Since the 1920s, and particularly since the Second World War, Arab Christianity has seen an ongoing demographic decline and, in several parts of the Arab world, a disappearance from which it is unlikely to
Date of Publication: Tuesday, September 1, 2015
[The text was written as a chapter for Freedom of Belief and Christian Mission, Edited by Hans Aage Gravaas, Christof Sauer, Tormod Engelsviken, Maqsood Kamil and Knud Jørgensen. Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series, Vol. 28, Regnum Books International, Oxford, 2015. This chapter was edited by Prof. Knud Jørgensen].
Muslim-Christian relations in
Date of Publication: Wednesday, July 1, 2015
During the European –Arab Conference, “The Contribution of Religious Minorities to Society”; launching event of the academic exchange program between the University of Vienna and higher education institutions in Lebanon and the Arab World, July 1-3, 2013, Vienna, Austria I presented a paper of the political use of statistics of Christian
Date of Publication: Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Abstract
This paper provides examples of a Western discourse about Egypt, which is critical about Muslim-Christian relations and human rights in Egypt and is largely focused on incidents, but is also insufficiently aware of the wider context which is presented in this paper.
Three abrupt political changes in Egypt in the past four years are
Date of Publication: Monday, June 30, 2014
Fabian Weinert wrote an extended review of the thesis of German Protestant theologian Matthias Gillé about the life and work of Pope Shenouda III, the late but still influential, and beloved pope of the Coptic-Orthodox church who is widely recognized as the most important Egyptian church leader in the second half of the 20th century.
Gillé used
Date of Publication: Tuesday, June 17, 2014
The identity of Muslim women in post-colonial Egypt has largely been marginalized in the transition to modernity. A subalternized position of women that remains highly underrepresented in the nationalist/fundamentalist discourse of post-colonial politics coincides with a Western-oriented conceptualization of Muslim femininity that fails to
Date of Publication: Friday, May 2, 2014
Statistics about Christians in Egypt has been a problematic topic for many years. While literature uses a number of six percent at the lowest, other sources also state the percentage of Copts in Egypt at twelve, fifteen, or even as high as twenty percent. In this research patterns in the use of statistics in English and French literature from the
Date of Publication: Wednesday, September 11, 2013
This report by Arab-West Report explains the context of the massive destruction of churches and Christian institutions in Egypt in August 2013. Very often media describe tensions between Muslims and Christians in Egypt in generalized terms, but this report prepared for the German organization, Missio, shows that tensions are primarily between
Date of Publication: Thursday, August 1, 2013
This report was commissioned by the German organization, Missio, in 2004. It was never published because we encountered difficulties in obtaining additional information on various legal issues and application of the law due to insufficient funding for quality legal experts. We have a strong network and have also used this in our efforts to
Date of Publication: Sunday, June 9, 2013
We often hear about the radical statements and fatwás of Muslims and about uncompromising Christian or secular activists who can appeal to populist sentiments and mistrust of the ‘other’. A major problem is that they also often refer to religious texts, which pours oil on the fire of the feelings of those who believe that particular religions are
Date of Publication: Wednesday, May 15, 2013
One of the distinguishing sub-themes of the Egyptian revolution which began on January 25, 2011, has been the proliferation of Coptic movements. Largely, though not entirely, contained in the church during the Mubarak era, Christian Egyptians joined their Muslim counterparts as ‘one hand’ to challenge the authority for the sake of ‘freedom, bread
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Date of source: Sunday, December 1, 2013
By: LinkedIn
EGYPT,BACK TO MILITARY RULE: ''Egypt's Draft Constitution Rewards the Military and J
Date of source: Monday, October 21, 2013
By: Reuters
By: Yasmine Saleh
Date of source: Monday, October 21, 2013
By: Radio Vatican
(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.
Date of source: Friday, November 29, 2013
By: World Bulletin
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
Date of source: Tuesday, October 22, 2013
By: Your Middle East
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.
Date of source: Sunday, November 24, 2013
By: The Daily Campus
Date of source: Monday, November 25, 2013
By: Assist News Service
By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries
Date of source: Friday, October 18, 2013
By: AINA (Assyrian Intl. News Ag.)
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.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 26, 2013
By: Al Monitor
CAIRO — It took only minutes for activists to witness Egypt’s controversial new protest law in action on Nov. 26.
Date of source: Saturday, November 9, 2013
By: Al Monitor
CAIRO — Sinai novelist and activist Mosaad Abu Fajr was jailed for nearly three years under the rule of former president Hosni Mubarak for his campaign “Wedna Ne`ish” (We Want To Live), which protested issues faced in the Sinai and among the Bedouin community. Today, he is one of
Date of source: Wednesday, November 20, 2013
By: Washington Institute
Conversations with senior Egyptian officials indicate that Washington should focus on preserving its strategically important geopolitical interests, not on using aid suspensions to influence the country's domestic politics.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 27, 2013
By: The Arabist
How to recognize an Egyptian activist
Date of source: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
By: Reuters
Students belonging to the opposition Muslim Brotherhood stand in a line in front of riot police during a protest against a military court's ruling in front of Cairo University.
Date of source: Saturday, November 9, 2013
By: The Christian Post
Said Abdel Massih, head of the Egyptian Center for Development and Human Rights (ECDHR), has called on the 50-member committee tasked with amending the 2012 Egyptian constitution to allocate a quota for Copts in parliament in an effort to quell sectarian strife and provide added representation an
Date of source: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
By: The Washington Institute
Clan Warfare in Egypt - The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Given Egypt's brewing power struggles, the current state of relative calm should not be mistaken for progress, let alone stability.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 4, 2013
By: Egypt Independent
Security forces in Minya have arrested a correspondent working for an American TV channel, accusing him of inciting sectarian strife and broadcasting false news, state-owned news agency MENA reported.
Date of source: Friday, November 29, 2013
By: Adnkronos International
Minya, 29 Nov. (AKI) - Three people were killed and several injured in clashes between minority Coptic Christians and Muslims in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya, daily Al-Ahram reported Friday.The clashes broke out late on Thursday when
Date of source: Wednesday, December 4, 2013
By: Baptist News
CAIRO (BP) -- Islamic extremists and criminals are extorting Christians in Egyptian towns, while trouble brews over the country's new protest law and constitution.According to Morning Star News, a news service reporting on the persecuted chur
Date of source: Monday, December 2, 2013
By: Right Side News
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Date of source: Sunday, December 29, 2013
By: MEMRI
Egyptian Poet Abdul Rahman Al-Qaradhawi, Son Of Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi:
Date of source: Wednesday, February 5, 2014
By: Al Monitor
CAIRO — In his second letter penned from an Egyptian prison, Australian journalist Peter Greste wrote, “Journalists are never supposed to become the story.” But due to unrelenting pressure by family members and supporters, he and colleagues netted in the state’s crackdown on the media have become
Date of source: Tuesday, February 4, 2014
By: Al Monitor
The Working Group on Egypt (WGE), a nonpartisan US-based group of scholars and experts on Egypt co-chaired by Michele Dunne of the Carnegie Endowment for
Date of source: Monday, February 3, 2014
By: Al Monitor
Sexual harassment in Egypt is on the rise.
Date of source: Sunday, February 2, 2014
By: Al Monitor
As security restrictions clamp down on means of freedom of speech, humor has emerged as the only weapon of resistance. Humor is common across all cultures over time.
Date of source: Sunday, January 12, 2014
By: The Telegraph
IT IS an unlikely setting from which to launch a fightback against Egypt's new military rulers.
Date of source: Friday, January 31, 2014
By: UPI
GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said Friday he was frustrated by reports of an Egyptian crackdown on the media.
Date of source: Thursday, January 23, 2014
By: Persecution
01/23/2014 Egypt (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Coptic Christians in Upper Egypt continue to be targeted for kidnapping and extortion on a weekly basis.
Date of source: Thursday, January 30, 2014
By: Al Monitor
Alaa Saad left work at Shorouk News on the evening of Jan.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 29, 2014
By: Al Monitor
On Jan. 27, two important developments took place in Cairo.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 28, 2014
By: MEMRI
On November 24, 2013, Egyptian Interim President 'Adly Mansour approved a bill for a protest law submitted to him about a month previously by the government.
Date of source: Saturday, January 18, 2014
By: Al Jazeera
Last summer, as unrest raged in Cairo, Egypt’s small Anglican community started looking for a way out. One family made for Canada, another went to Australia, and several emigrated to the United States.
Date of source: Monday, January 20, 2014
By: Canada Free Press
Egyptians, passionate and elated, leap for joy in the aftermath of a major victory sealing the death of Morsi’s autocratic regime and his Muslim Brotherhood backers as Egypt’s new draft constitution is approved by a huge margin. A woman exiting a poll opens her heart and cries ou
Date of source: Thursday, January 23, 2014
By: European Council on Foreign Relations
The Egyptian authorities hoped that the constitutional referendum would draw a line under the question of the legitimacy of the 3 July regime, and they are showing all the signs of believing that the 98 percent “Yes” vote means they have achieved that.
Date of source: Thursday, January 23, 2014
By: Baptist News
CAIRO, Egypt (BP) -- Egyptian voters have approved a new constitution, leaving Christians a bit more hopeful, though it does not secure basic rights for religious minorities.One Egyptian Christian leader said the difference in attitudes he ob
Date of source: Wednesday, January 22, 2014
By: UPI
CAIRO, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The Muslim Brotherhood said Wednesday it was calling on Egyptians to display a sense of unity and devotion to the spirit of the 2011 revolution.
Date of source: Friday, January 17, 2014
By: The Washington Institute
Given the limitations and internal divisions of Egypt's various power centers, neither the military nor any other single institution is solely in charge at the moment.
Date of source: Thursday, February 6, 2014
By: UPI
STRASBOURG, France, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Egyptian democracy needs to be supported by different political views in a future government, the Greek foreign minister told the European Parliament.
Date of source: Friday, November 15, 2013
By: International Security Observer
This artic
Date of source: Tuesday, February 11, 2014
By: CNN
(CNN) -- A revolution squeezed into its margins -- but that's where it started.
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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.