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Dispute on authority of different bodies to issue fatwas sparks religious and legislative row in Egypt
Date of source: 5 May 2025
By No Author Mentioned
A dispute over the bodies with powers to issue fatwas (religious opinions in Islam) caused a religious and legislative controversy in Egypt as the House of Representatives’ Religious Affairs & Awqāf Committee approved in principle a draft law regulating the issuance of fatwas. The parliament...
Reviewed by ʿAmr al-Misrī
Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Grand Imām of al-Azhar gives condolences to a Palestinian doctor over the death of her 9 children
Date of source: 25 May 2025
By Lū’aī ʿAlī
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
"A journey into the land of Coptic Martyrs" - Pope Tawāḍrūs documents an incident that shook lands and peoples
Date of source: 22 May 2025
By Niḍāl Mamdūḥ
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
Hear and Speak Forum’s final statement: The systematic integration of the Palestinian cause in educational curricula at all levels
Date of source: 6 May 2025
By No Author Mentioned
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...
Reviewed by Maé Lefèvre
Translator Maé Lefèvre
The Grand Imām of al-Azhar and the Pope Agree to Continue on the Path of Dialogue and Human Fraternity
Date of source: 14 May 2025
By No Author Mentioned
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...
Reviewed by Maé Lefèvre
Translator Maé Lefèvre
ʿAmr Mūsa: "Trump’s Gulf tour was not only for economic reasons."
Date of source: 18 May 2025
By No Author Mentioned
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...
Reviewed by Jack Heron
Translator Jack Heron
Sheikh Khaled Bentounès: A leading Sufi figure and advocate of intercultural dialogue
Date of source: 10 May 2025
By Brahim Saci
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
New Pope thanks everyone who voted for him to succeed Pope Francis
Date of source: 8 May 2025
By No Author Mentioned
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
Pope Tawāḍrūs II’s extensive European tour: lectures, meetings with heads of states, and church inaugurations
Date of source: 8 May 2025
By Ṣada al-Balad
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
Pope Tawāḍrūs II: 15 million Copts live in Egypt alongside 90 million of our Muslim brothers
Date of source: 5 May 2025
By Muḥammad al-Aḥmadī
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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Obstacles Facing Egypt’s NGOs
Date of Publication: Tuesday, September 25, 2018
By: Megan Molitor
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
Working towards a Libya Peace Conference: Rebuilding on “The Ashes of a Country”
Date of Publication: Monday, September 17, 2018
By: Lorena Stancu
  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
Gender Disparities in Egypt - Perspectives from India
Date of Publication: Thursday, August 30, 2018
By: Vishesh Anand
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 (
From Nāṣir to al-Sīsī: An Evaluation of Egypt’s Foreign Policy Imperatives and its Implications
Date of Publication: Sunday, August 5, 2018
By: Nadeem Ahmed Moonakal
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
2014 Egyptian Constitution: Perspectives from Egypt
Date of Publication: Monday, April 16, 2018
By: Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
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
From Ruling to Opposition: Islamist Groups and Non-Islamic Groups in Egypt 2011-2013
Date of Publication: Monday, April 16, 2018
By: Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
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,
Chinese Students of Al-Azhar and their impact on Sino-Egyptian Relations
Date of Publication: Sunday, March 20, 2016
By: Maurice Gajan
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
The legal situation of Syrian Refugees in Egypt - Issues concerning Irregular Migration
Date of Publication: Monday, December 14, 2015
By: Davide Amelia
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
Racism, Discrimination and Refugees - The Discriminative Treatment of Somali People: General Effects of a Racist Practice Towards Somalis Inside the Egyptian Society
Date of Publication: Wednesday, September 30, 2015
By: ʿAbd al-Raḥman Mūsah Jamaʿa [Abdurahman Muuse Jamae]
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
Middle Eastern Christian survival strategies after the Arab Revolutions in 2011 with a focus on Egypt
Date of Publication: Wednesday, September 9, 2015
By: Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
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

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Egyptian Poet Abdul Rahman Al-Qaradhawi: The Current Egyptian Rule Is Like A Spider-Web..
Date of source: Sunday, December 29, 2013
By: MEMRI
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Egyptian Poet Abdul Rahman Al-Qaradhawi, Son Of Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi:
Journalists become the story in Egypt
Date of source: Wednesday, February 5, 2014
By: Al Monitor
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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
US Working Group gives wrong advice on Egypt
Date of source: Tuesday, February 4, 2014
By: Al Monitor
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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
Sexual harassment leads Egyptian women to martial arts
Date of source: Monday, February 3, 2014
By: Al Monitor
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Sexual harassment in Egypt is on the rise.
Egypt: resistance through sarcasm
Date of source: Sunday, February 2, 2014
By: Al Monitor
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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.
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood launches fightback from Cricklewood flat
Date of source: Sunday, January 12, 2014
By: The Telegraph
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IT IS an unlikely setting from which to launch a fightback against Egypt's new military rulers.
U.N. rights office frustrated by Egypt's media crackdown
Date of source: Friday, January 31, 2014
By: UPI
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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.
Coptic Christians Kidnapped Weekly, Held for Ransom by Radicals
Date of source: Thursday, January 23, 2014
By: Persecution
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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.
Egyptian woman attacked in Tahrir Square as police watch, laugh
Date of source: Thursday, January 30, 2014
By: Al Monitor
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Alaa Saad left work at Shorouk News on the evening of Jan.
Four questions about a Sisi run for president of Egypt
Date of source: Wednesday, January 29, 2014
By: Al Monitor
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On Jan. 27, two important developments took place in Cairo.

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The Imam and the Pastor: A Peacebuilding Workshop
Newsletter Number: 4
Year: 2011
At Least 10 Dead in Attack on Church in Cairo Suburb
Newsletter Number: 3
Year: 2011
Investigation Continues Amid Protests in Church Bombing Case
Newsletter Number: 2
Year: 2011
Job Opening at the Arab West Report
Newsletter Number: 22
Year: 2011
Vier Egypte presentaties Kees Hulsman in November 2011
Newsletter Number: 7
Year: 2011
Rondzendbrief familie Hulsman
Newsletter Number: 6
Year: 2011
The Life Story of Saint Demiana and the 40 Virgins
Newsletter Number: 12
Year: 2011
Rondzendbrief familie Hulsman - Cairo, 1 juni 2011
Newsletter Number: 5
Year: 2011
Rondzendbrief familie Hulsman - Den Haag, 10 februari 2011
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Year: 2011
Rondzendbrief familie Hulsman - Den Haag, 10 februari 2011
Newsletter Number: 4
Year: 2011

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