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Date of source: 11 Jun 2025
Karin Anderson’s views and those of Christian Zionism in general align with Orthodox Jewish nationalism that sees contemporary Israel as the successor state to ancient Israel and that sees the current states and peoples surrounding Israel as successors to the ancient nations surrounding Israel.
On...
Date of source: 11 Jun 2025
Date of source: 11 Jun 2025
The articles in this project are all related to the beliefs of US Christian national Karin Anderson, who asked for my help to visit archeological sites in Egypt that have Biblical relevance. Karin Anderson’s beliefs can be categorized as Christian Zionist, although she does not call herself...
Date of source: 11 Jun 2025
Date of source: 11 Jun 2025
Date of source: 8 Jun 2025
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...
Date of source: 27 May 2025
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
Date of source: 31 May 2025
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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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 3 Jun 2025
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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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 3 Jun 2025
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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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 31 May 2025
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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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 28 May 2025
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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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 30 May 2025
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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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 12 May 2025
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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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 5 May 2025
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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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 25 May 2025
Grand Imām of al-Azhar Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib offered sincerest condolences to Palestinian physician Dr. Ālā’ al-Najjār, a mother of nine children killed in a brutal Zionist attack on their house in the Gaza Strip.
Dr. Najjār’s husband and her only remaining son were injured in the heinous crime that...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 22 May 2025
The Coptic Orthodox Church recently released a book that documented the incident of the martyrdom of 21 Egyptians in Libya, where they were slain by members of the terrorist Daesh organization in 2015.
The book, titled "The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs" – a Western vision of a...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 6 May 2025
In its recommendations, the forum’s final statement emphasized the importance of developing training programs specifically for young people, focusing on community engagement and leadership skills. It also stressed the need to provide financial and technical support to civil society organizations...
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Translator Maé Lefèvre
Date of source: 14 May 2025
His Eminence, the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmed el-Ṭayyib, Sheikh of al-Azhar, congratulated Pope Leo XIV during a phone call on Wednesday on his election as Pope of the Catholic Church. During the call, the Grand Imam expressed his best wishes to the newly elected Pope for success in promoting...
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Translator Maé Lefèvre
Date of source: 18 May 2025
ʿAmr Mūsa, former Foreign Minister and former Secretary-General of the Arab League, has said that US President Donald Trump’s tour of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, was not only for economic reasons.
In a phone call to Al-Ḥekāya program on MBC Misr on Saturday evening, Mūsa added that the visit...
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Translator Jack Heron
Date of source: 10 May 2025
Sheikh Khālid b. Tūnis (Khaled Bentounès) is a respected figure in contemporary Sufism and a fervent advocate of peace. Born in Mustaghānim, Algeria, he is the spiritual guide of the ʿAlawiyya Sufi brotherhood, founded by his ancestor Sheikh Aḥmad al-ʿAlāwī. This movement is renowned for its...
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Translator Joelle Elise Mayoraz
Date of source: 8 May 2025
The new Pope, American Cardinal Prevost, who took the name Leo XIV, delivered his first address from the central window of St. Peter’s Basilica, broadcast on Cairo News Channel.
Pope Leo XIV opened his first address with a call to peace for all people, thanking all those who voted to elect him as...
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Translator Jack Heron
Date of source: 8 May 2025
His Holiness Pope Tawāḍrūs II arrived at Cairo International Airport this evening, returning from the Czech Republic following his tour of four countries within the Diocese of Central Europe: Poland, Romania, Serbia, and the Czech Republic.
His Holiness the Pope was received at the airport by His...
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Translator Jack Heron
Date of source: 5 May 2025
Two Serbian TV channels and a news agency conducted interviews with Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church on Monday (May 5), during his current visit to Serbia, which is part of his pastoral visit of the Diocese of Central Europe.
Pope Tawāḍrūs expressed joy for visiting Serbia, stressing...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 6 May 2025
Dr. Rihām Salāma, the executive director of al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism, announced the recommendations of the 4th edition of the "Listen & Speak" Forum held on Tuesday (May 6) at al-Azhar’s conference center.
"The event represented a vital platform for exchanging insights and...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 6 May 2025
Undersecretary of al-Azhar Dr. Muḥammad al-Ḍūwaynī received a delegation from the Vienna Group for Religion & Diplomacy, a gathering that includes official representatives from 14 European nations and seeks to support interfaith dialogue and spread the culture of coexistence and freedom of...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 6 May 2025
Before his death, Pope Francis donated one of his popemobiles to be converted into a mobile clinic to assist the children of Gaza, one of the communities most affected by the war and humanitarian crisis in that region.
It is the popemobile the pontiff used during his visit to Bethlehem in May 2014...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 21 Apr 2025
With deep sadness and sorrow, President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī profoundly mourns the passing of the Head of the Catholic Church, His Holiness Pope Francis. His departure leaves behind an extraordinary legacy of compassion and humanity that will forever remain etched in the conscience of mankind....
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
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
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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
Date of Publication: Thursday, May 2, 2013
This report is on the formation of the Egyptian Constitution of 2012 and was commissioned by the German organization Missio who translated it into German for publication in Germany.
The processes of how the Constituent Assembly was formed is described and discussions about the content of this Constitution from both liberal and Islamist
Date of Publication: Saturday, December 8, 2012
In 1995, the Dutch Christian organization Open Doors asked me to look into the stories of Christian girls in Egypt being kidnapped by Muslims and being forced to convert to Islam. I contacted human rights lawyer Maurice Ṣādiq, who has repeatedly defended such claims. I also contacted clergy and church workers in Cairo, Alexandria, and Upper Egypt
Date of Publication: Monday, October 22, 2012
Cornelis Hulsman was asked to speak about Matthew 25:35-36, where Jesus said “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,” in the light of his work for Arab-West Report in Egypt. Hulsman explained this verse applies to all our neighbors, Christian,
Date of Publication: Tuesday, July 31, 2012
This book was first published in 2012 by CIDT in Arabic. It was later translated into English, expanded with texts of Nushin Atmaca and Patricia Prentice and edited by Cornelis Hulsman with help of Jenna Ferrecchia and Douglas May. The expanded book was published by Tectum Verlag, Academic publishers in Germany. They also hold the copyright to the
Date of Publication: Wednesday, June 20, 2012
This paper expands upon earlier work published in Arab-West Report by Dutch Arabists Eildert Mulder and Thomas Milo on the contested earliest sources of Islam.1 Mulder and Milo illustrate that critical scholarship has cast doubt on the historicity of the hadīth and biographies and because other sources are scant, little is known for
Date of Publication: Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Dr. Michael Wahid Hanna of the Century Foundation (US), one of the speakers during the Henriette van Lynden lecture of June 11, organized by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was asked by Cornelis Hulsman for the source of his estimated percentage of Christians in Egypt, 10% in 1950 and 10% in 2014. Hulsman commented that it is generally
Date of Publication: Wednesday, May 9, 2012
The Commission of the Bishop’s Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) in Brussels invited Cornelis Hulsman to present on the position of Christians in Egypt on May 9 in Brussels, Belgium. The presentation is part of a seminar on “Christians in the Arab World: One year after the Arab Spring,” organized by COMECE in cooperation with the EPP
Date of Publication: Sunday, March 11, 2012
The majority of articles containing Coptic population figures were not published in several major English-language newspapers until after 1956. Articles in newspapers such as the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Toronto Star illustrate the varying tendencies of journalists in their presentation of figures. In comparison to the CAPMAS
Date of Publication: Monday, December 19, 2011
It is the time before the presidential elections. Egypt is in the middle of a possible transitional period and a mostly transitional mood. Since I arrived in Cairo in October 2011, people were highly politicized (which does not mean full of revolutionary thoughts) and most of them still are. It was then that I heard for the first time the
Date of Publication: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Earlier this year, Egyptian Coptic intellectual Dr. Rafīq Samuel Habīb was named as the vice president of Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party -the newly founded political party of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Already one of the most controversial figures in Egyptian society, Habīb's appointment as the deputy leader of Egypt's nascent Islamist party
Date of Publication: Wednesday, October 26, 2011
October 9 witnessed riots in Cairo that led to the death of at least twenty-seven people and the injury of over 300, mostly from Egypt’s Coptic Christian community. The conflict followed a peaceful march from the neighborhood of Shubra, with its high percentage of Coptic residents, to the Radio and TV Building in Maspero, which has become the
Date of Publication: Saturday, October 22, 2011
This report provides critical background and previously unpublished details on the events leading up to the protests by Copts in Maspero, Cairo on October 9, 2011, which ended fatally for more than 20 protesters and injured over 100 others. It provides interviews, photographs, videos, and documents, as evidence of the circumstances in the village
Date of Publication: Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Christopher D. Marshall spent one month in the Bishopric of Shubra al-Khayma, a suburb of Cairo, to gather information about Coptic Orthodox migration. With him he brought a series of interview questions with which he hoped would uncover the methods of data collection used in the Shubra al-Khayma. Bishop Marcos designated Father Youssef as
Date of Publication: Monday, August 29, 2011
Review of Elizabeth Edward’s “Coptic Orthodox statistics and migration in Maghagha”
This work builds upon the report "Report on church response to poverty in Egypt" and delves into the issue of poverty and migration. What number of the poor are bishops responsible to provide care for?
The basis of the report comes from field work in Maghāghah
Date of Publication: Monday, May 23, 2011
Sanne Lundberg’s thesis was about the strong Coptic Christian perception of being discriminated, the interplay of this belief with religious beliefs, as well as their response to the perceived discriminating social system in Egypt. This research was thus not an investigation about whether these perceptions are correct or not but about perceptions
Date of Publication: Thursday, February 10, 2011
According to the Pew Research Center, US media attention for the Egyptian protests has exceeded every foreign policy story over the last four years, commanding 56% of all news coverage. While initially surprising, upon reflection this story hits at the conjunction of many popular flashpoints: Israel, Islam, and popular democratic movements. It
Date of Publication: Thursday, February 10, 2011
The attack on worshippers in an Alexandria church in Egypt on January 1, 2011 marks a lowpoint in relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt. Never before in modern Egyptian history have extremists tried to kill as many worshippers as possible in a suicide attack. Earlier clashes were often related to extreme responses to local tensions
Date of Publication: Saturday, January 15, 2011
Interreligious tensions in Egypt are, unfortunately, very often related to church construction. In response to this tension, two student interns, Christian Fastenrath and Corin Kazanjian, worked over one year on a paper titled "Important factors for church-building in Egypt" published by AWR 2008, Week 47, Article 5.
Following this project, the
Date of Publication: Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Mai Magdy and Esben Justesen worked on this paper on the controversial Islamist Zaghloul al-Najjār.
Al-Najjār has his followers, people who adore his thoughts and people who strongly oppose him. The comments to al-Najjār show the strongly polarized climate we are witnessing in Egypt. Al-Najjār’s own statements have contributed to these polemics.
Date of Publication: Saturday, February 27, 2010
Within Egyptian society the 'reconciliation session' has become a frequently used tool for solving disputes, but has also become increasingly controversial for failing to restore community harmony, contrary to its idealistic title. The reconciliation session is a traditional Egyptian mechanism for conflict resolution outside the context of the
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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
Excerpt from a larger article titled:
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.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 19, 2014
By: BBC News
The Foreign Office said British nationals should avoid "all but essential travel" to the region.
Date of source: Thursday, February 13, 2014
By: Reuters
(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday threw his weight behind a presidential bid by Egyptian Army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, voicing hope that ties would strengthen after the election.
Date of source: Thursday, January 30, 2014
By: The Arabist
Jehane Noujaim's documentary The Square has been short-listed for the Oscar, is now available on Netflix, and recently won her an Directors' Guil
Date of source: Thursday, October 31, 2013
By: World Review
EGYPT is struggling with an internal and violent political and social conflict which will continue to undermine domestic stability.
Date of source: Saturday, February 8, 2014
By: Reuters
(Reuters) - Egyptian leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi announced on Saturday he would be running for the presidency in a forthcoming election, enlivening a race that army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is widely expected to win.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 4, 2014
By: Hoover Institution
The fall of the Mubarak regime in February 2011 unleashed a monumental and contagious wave of optimism. Images of Christians and Muslims holding hands in Tahrir Square were broadcast around the world and gave credence to the narrative that a new more liberal and democratic Egypt was being born.
Date of source: Friday, February 7, 2014
By: Forbes
Before the 2012 Egyptian presidential elections, dozens of Muslim Brotherhood members were dispatched to the US and Europe. They presented a picture that interlocutors could identify with. They were young, western-educated and articulate.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 5, 2014
By: Irin News
CAIRO, 5 March 2014 (IRIN) - The seven months since July’s overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt have been among the most violent and divisive in recent times, analysts say, as much of society polarizes along pro-Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and pro-army lines.
Date of source: Thursday, January 9, 2014
By: Brookings Institution
Date of source: Tuesday, January 28, 2014
By: Brookings Institution
By: Shadi Hamid
Date of source: Tuesday, March 11, 2014
By: Haaretz
By The Associated Press| Mar. 11, 2014 | 6:40 PM
The deputy head of Egypt's dwindling Jewish community was buried Tuesday in a ceremony led by her sister.
Date of source: Monday, February 24, 2014
By: Middle East Research and Information Project
by Joshua Stacher | published February 24, 2014 - 5:21pm
Date of source: Monday, February 3, 2014
By: Washington Post
This video, aired by Egypt's al-Tahrir, shows two journalists with Al Jazeera English.
Date of source: Monday, March 10, 2014
By: Washington Post
The growing number of people held by Egyptian authorities as part of a frenzied campaign to crush opposition to the military-backed government has squeezed the country’s already broken criminal justice system, leading to widespread legal and human rights abuses by security forces, prosecutors and
Date of source: Sunday, March 9, 2014
By: ABC News
Gunmen killed a police officer Friday in northern Egypt who worked as a guard for a judge hearing a case against the country's ousted president as his supporters held scattered demonstrations that saw one person killed, authorities said.
Date of source: Saturday, February 22, 2014
By: Middle East Online
Election of first female as head of political party in Egypt brings flicker of hope for women across country.
CAIRO – The election of the first female as a head of a political party in Egypt brought a flicker of hope for women across the country on Friday.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 25, 2014
By: Daily News Egypt
Al-Azhar and the Coptic Church Tuesday condemned the recent killing of seven Egyptian Copts in Western Libya, with the church calling for a hasty arrest of the “terrorists” responsible.
Date of source: Thursday, February 27, 2014
By: openDemocracy
Mina Fayek [1] 27 February 2014
Date of source: Tuesday, January 1, 2013
By: Jihad Watch
Random attacks on Egypt's Christian Copts continue growing, including with very little motive -- other than hate, that is.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
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.