Date of source: 6 Oct 2017
While some of the workers in these channels believe that the political role these media outlets play is not contrary to their spiritual aim, some activists say that the primary role of these channels is to provide a spiritual message and should not engage in politics.
Other thinkers, however,...
Date of source: 2 Oct 2017
ʿAbd Allāh added that the general rule is that the testimony of Christians citizens before the Egyptian courts are accepted and that they are equal to the testimony of Muslim citizens before all courts and in all cases. The only exception is that the testimony of non-Muslims is not included in...
Date of source: 2 Oct 2017
Nā’ūt explained that the great Coptic figures that have contributed to different walks of life in Egypt and worldwide cannot be regarded as dhimmīs [literally, protected persons in Muslim countries] just because they are not Muslims.
Date of source: 4 Oct 2017
Director of the Regional Commission for Tourism Activation in Aṣyūṭ ‘Uthmān al- Ḥussaynī said that there are three destinations for visitors and tourists in Aṣyūṭ, including Mary’s Tree in Dayrūṭ, al-Muḥarraq Monastery in Mount Qusqām and St. Mary’s Monastery in Drunkah.
Date of source: 4 Oct 2017
The director of the Coptic Studies Center at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Dr. Lūʾay Maḥmūd Saʿīd said that this diploma is the first of its kind as it tackles a number of topics, including early Christian Islamic dialogue, Coptic Arabic literature, Coptic heritage and Arabic translations of the...
Date of source: 4 Oct 2017
The number adopted by the church exceeds the number announced by Major General Abū Bakr al-Jundī, head of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), who announced the number of Copts in the 1986 census was 5.7 percent of the total population of 82.1 million.
This figure,...
Date of source: 4 Oct 2017
Shaykh Rāshid replied that Christians in Egypt are not dhimmīs, but they are indigenous citizens of the country, and that the majority of Muslim scholars agree that Christians are eligible to take up leadership positions in Muslim countries.
Another Muslim scholar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Sayīḥ, also said...
Date of source: 1 Oct 2017
NAT’s spokesman Aḥmad al-Hādī said the al-Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy did not renew the protocol for the establishment of kiosks with the Authority, adding that such kiosks belong to the NAT.
Secretary General of the Islamic Research Academy Muḥīy al-Dīn ʿAfīfī pointed out that the fatwā...
Date of source: 6 Oct 2017
The blessing of the icon of the Holy Family Journey to Egypt is considered a call for all Catholics around the world to do their pilgrimage in Egypt starting next January, which is a great opportunity to activate the religious tourism to Egypt; to visit the path of the Holy Family which has...
Date of source: 2 Oct 2017
The article gives examples of empowering these two groups over the past four years under the Sīsī administration, including the appointment of women governors and the access of 75 women and 37 Copts to parliamentary seats.
Date of source: 2 Oct 2017
“The Eastern Christians, Two Thousand Years of History” Exhibition, hosted by the Arab World Institute in Paris, has received great attention in the French, Arab and other media networks, especially because French President Emmanuel Macron attended the opening of the exhibition.
In addition to...
Date of source: 2 Oct 2017
Tāj, a novelist, said that the Coptic language is the language of all Egyptians, not only Christians, and that it is the basis of Egyptian identity, calling on officials to include it in school curricula. He argued that the Coptic language should be taught to young generations in order to preserve...
Date of source: 2 Oct 2017
During the meeting, the two parties discussed the prospects of joint cooperation and development activities in the reserve, as well as the monastery’s activities to serve and develop the local community and the reserve.
Archbishop Damianos welcomed the ministry’s initiative to cooperate with the...
Date of source: 3 Oct 2017
Fāʾiq stressed that the success of the council depends on its independence and its relations with NGOs, pointing out that development does not only mean economic growth, it is linked to human rights as well, and it is considered a priority.
Date of source: 31 Aug 2017
Most of the arguments against the equality position concern the reproduction [or reconsideration] of the conventional traditional jurisprudential literature and the fundamental traditions, on the grounds that inheritance provisions are derived from peremptory texts from the Holy Quran. On the other...
Date of source: 10 Dec 2017
Even though his move was anticipated before (this plan has been legally in place in the U.S. since 1995), Trump’s act has shattered the hopes of millions of people throughout the world, people who still believed that Trump would abjure from this inflammatory decision and instead propose a...
Date of source: 28 Aug 2017
Abū Rāshid said that the monastery is open to visitors, clarifying that the monastery and the main church are closed only for monks to perform their prayers during official holidays, which include Coptic Easter and St. Catherine’s Feast.
Monks of the Greek Orthodox Denomination also celebrate...
Date of source: 28 Aug 2017
Date of source: 28 Aug 2017
Date of source: 7 Dec 2017
Towards a Unified Law to Eradicate Violence Against Women in Egypt
On Sunday, December 3rd, a number of Egyptian civil society organizations held a press conference, titled “A Unified Law to Eradicate Violence Against Women.” Hosted at the New Woman Foundation headquarters in central Cairo, this...
Date of source: 28 Nov 2017
Nabīḥ al-Waḥsh has become known for wild and outlandish statements (of course one method of getting fame), many of which have been documented in Arab-West Report. I do not know of any educated Egyptian citizen or government official who takes his statements seriously, yet he produces good clips for...
Date of source: 28 Nov 2017
Nabīh al-Waḥsh has become known for wild and outlandish statements (of course one method of getting fame), many of which have been documented in Arab-West Report. I do not know of any educated Egyptian citizen or government official who takes his statements seriously, yet he produces good clips for...
Date of source: 26 Nov 2017
2017 represented yet another jubilee pertaining to the Arab-Israeli Conflict. However, this anniversary is neither as colourful, nor as celebrated, as the Balfour Declaration: June of this year marked ten years of Egypt and Israel’s blockade on Gaza. In contrast to the Balfour Declaration’s...
Date of source: 26 Nov 2017
2017 represented yet another jubilee pertaining to the Arab-Israeli Conflict. However, this anniversary is neither as colourful, nor as celebrated, as the Balfour Declaration: June of this year marked ten years of Egypt and Israel’s blockade on Gaza. In contrast to the Balfour Declaration’s...
Date of source: 9 Aug 2017
According to a security source, security reinforcements will reach the village to besiege the terrorists, with the help of the security services in Luxor, Sūhāj and the New Valley.
The security forces in Qinā attacked a terrorist training camp in a mountain along Qinā’s desert road. The raid...
Date of source: 9 Aug 2017
The Institute is a valuable Andalusian architectural structure, constructed in four years. The idea of establishing the Institute dates back to 1915, when the people of Asyūṭ needed to build a religious institute, instead of sending their children to study in al-Azhar al-Sharīf in Cairo....
Date of source: 7 Nov 2017
In her book, Gūda examines the influence of social relationships between multiple actors (village farmers, government agencies, and donor organizations) on the development and management of one of Egypt’s most precious resources: water from the river Nile.
The main premise of the book is that...
Date of source: 2 Aug 2017
ʿUkāsha, who is a member of the Presidential Advisory Council of Egypt’s Scientists and Experts, and the President’s Advisor on Mental Health and Societal Consensus, said to al-Miṣrī al-yawm that extremist groups use the strategy of brainwashing to control youth through sensory deprivation.
In...
Date of source: 5 Aug 2017
The World Heritage Committee is part of the UNESCO Heritage Centre. It holds an annual meeting attended by representatives of 21 countries to study proposals from countries desiring to add their site to the World Heritage List of Sites.
The Monastery of Abū Mīnā is located in the Maryūṭ area of...
Date of source: 5 Aug 2017
If the goal of these kiosks is to facilitate the provision of fatwas, the corridors of subway stations are definitely not the appropriate place for such activities, especially that the passengers are always in a hurry. Moreover, fatwas should not be sought while you are in a hurry. The normal place...
Date of source: 5 Aug 2017
Fayūm includes monuments from all civilizations: starting from the Pharaonic civilization, to the Islamic civilization. These include: the dome and the minaret of Shaykh ʿAlī al-Rūbī, built by Sultan Barqūq in 893 AH; and al-Lahūn Arch, built of solid stone at the entrance to the Sea of Joseph...
Date of source: 6 Aug 2017
From women’s perspective, both jurisprudential and theological texts were written from a masculine point of view, and that is what we see represented in the church and in the mosque. Men’s monopoly over religion led to the canonization of certain interpretations that relegate women to a lower...
Date of source: 9 Aug 2017
The terrorist, named Ḥamza Shaʿbān ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and born on October 29, 1997, is from the village of Zāwiyat al-Muṣlūb, al-Wāsṭā center, in Banī Swayf governorate.
According to church sources, the Interior Ministry sent warnings to some church leaders, stressing that the 21-year-old terrorist...
Date of source: 15 Nov 2017
Fr. Shiḥāta Trip to Cairo: A Routine Journey Gone Awry
On October 12, 2017, Father Samʿān Shiḥāta headed to Cairo from his native Banī Swayf, accompanied by fellow priest Bīmin Muftāḥ. The 45-year-old church-leader had travelled to the metropolis to collect donations for his impoverished parish...
Date of source: 31 Oct 2017
Raising of a Rainbow Flag and Media Outcry
I spoke with Mohamed, an Egyptian LGBTQI activist from Cairo, who currently lives abroad and chose to withhold his family name due to security reasons: “I would say that what is perceived as ‘current crackdown’ started already in October 2013, with an...
Date of source: 26 Oct 2017
Review:
“… You have a dream, then you sure have a plan to achieve it!”
The book begins with this catchy poem written by Wisāl ʿAbd al-Minʿim Muḥammad al-Sadīq, a female student at Cairo University. From my perspective, the purpose of this book not only to increase the public awareness’ of women’s...
Date of source: 5 Nov 2017
The book deals mainly with the various aspects of the Egyptian government’s attempts to develop and cultivate the country’s desert landscape. These processes include the construction of new cities, farms, industrial zones and tourist destinations. According to Sims, such attempts have largely been...
Date of source: 28 Mar 2017
This [turbulence] began with a lecture by the former Pope Benedict, Pope of the Vatican, at Regensburg University in the Bavarian region of Germany. During this lecture, the Pope quoted a philosopher who linked between Islam, violence, and the idea of jihād. This issue offended al-Azhar. Pope...
Date of source: 28 Mar 2017
The Pope added that he exerts his best efforts to clarify the correct image about Egypt through the churches affiliated with him abroad.
The Pope indicated that any Copts that wish to return to their homes in al-ʿArīsh should do so, affirming that what Dāʿish is doing represents a pressure point...
Date of source: 30 Mar 2017
As such, the Pope dedicated a new editorial in Evangelism, a magazine that serves as a mouthpiece for the Coptic Orthodox Church. Therein the Pope spoke about how the new way to make the Holy Myron, which he also used to make the previous Holy Myron and for which he generated violent Coptic...
Date of source: 31 Mar 2017
Ilhām Ṣalāḥ, Head of the Museums Department at the Ministry, clarified that this decision came after the agreement of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. This represents a positive step on behalf of the ministry to promote the visitation to the Islamic Museum, increase financial returns, and...
Date of source: 28 Jan 2017
From then on, 30 June Rebel movement was launched, and he was one of its effective members. His nationalist word was amalgamated in his writing of the preamble to the 2014 constitution.
It is in this text that he describes the importance of understanding Egypt’s meaning, with its heritage and its...
Date of source: 25 Jan 2017
In exclusive comments to al-Dustūr, Fikrī added: “The civil code must cover Christian principles, and consider contemporary circumstances and problems,” stressing on the importance of issuing the law in an inclusive manner that appeases all denominations (Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical...
Date of source: 24 Jan 2017
He added that the church collected engineering designs for the project after being given the land by the Bahraini monarch, highlighting that the necessary agreements with the involved parties and administrations have already been completed and that the project is ready to begin.
He expressed his...
Date of source: 13 May 2017
The representative confirmed that this incident symbolizes a strong strike on the faces of all terrorist and takfīrī groups, primarily the Muslim Brotherhood. He pointed out that Egypt always presents a clear image in front of all those following the three monotheistic religions both within and...
Date of source: 27 Mar 2017
Our first story is that of Ms. Emily ʿIṣāmī, who studied Arabic in Syria. When Emily arrived to Syria from the United States, she was an atheist but she became admired with the Qur’ān’s meanings and moved to Saudi Arabia. She then converted to Islam and from then on became known as Um Muḥammad. She...
Date of source: 25 Oct 2017 to 14 Mar 2018
In fact, Sexual harassment of women is notoriously rampant in Egyptian public spaces and endemic throughout Egyptian society. Millions of Egyptian women face the situation on a regular basis. According to a 2013 UN Women report (“Study on Ways and Methods to Eliminate Sexual Harassment” p. 6), 99.3...
Date of source: 26 Mar 2017
At the time, al-Sādāt promised the Egyptian population development and luxury after years of war, but that did not occur. According to observers, Egypt did not benefit from the agreement that it signed for peace purposes, neither on the governmental or on the popular level.
The first three...
Date of source: 24 Oct 2017
Pious fraud stories often involve miracles and are therefore extremely effective, especially with fundamentalist believers across all religions, who believe that these stories must have literally happened in history in order to have meaning.
Pious fraud is insufficiently documented but a previous...
Date of source: 21 Feb 2017
The conference will be attended by a number of Egyptian rights organizations abroad to support Egypt against terrorism. It will also be attended by a number of public figures, authors, and thinkers.
Bahā’ Ramzī, official spokesperson of the Coptic Commission in the Netherlands, said that...
Date of source: 21 Feb 2017
This is because Egypt does not know of ethnic or racial divisions, which were the gateway to the doctrinal or racial discords in the most important centers of the Islamic world in Syria and Iraq. These tensions spurred the fires of political and security chaos from which groups like Dāʿish spurned...
Date of source: 21 Feb 2017
This occurred at the church’s headquarters in Zamālik, in the presence of a number of priests and shaykhs also participating in this initiative.
The initiative seeks to train 100 young men and women on the skills of accepting the other and effective communication via ten imams and ten priests in...
Date of source: 21 Feb 2017
During a lecture titled “The Future and Resonance of the Nation,” Sharaf added that cultural discourse necessitates that an individual in society know how to choose, and thereby, the question of religious discourse then becomes easy.
Egypt’s former Prime Minister also pointed out that, within a...
Date of source: 21 Feb 2017
The Center’s statement noted that this [position] indicates the salafis lack of knowledge about the articles in the 2014 Constitution, which won the consensus of the Egyptian population, especially Article 2, which states that “Islam is the religion of the state, Arabic is its official language,...
Date of source: 21 Feb 2017
In a statement released by the Ministry on Tuesday, it was announced that this training series comes in light of the Ministry’s interest in the issue of human rights, working according to the standards and principles of human rights inside all police-affiliated authorities, and increasing police...
Date of source: 20 Feb 2017
Bishop Barnabas, Bishop of Torino and Rome, delegated Bishop Angelos Jābir, a priest in the Coptic Church in Florence, to participate in the exhibition, during which he will promote the Holy Family’s first journey to Egypt.
Also participating in the conference was Hishām al-Damīrī, Head of the...
Date of source: 20 Feb 2017
With this ruling, al-Nūr Party continues its activity, accompanied by other religious parties that emerged following the January 25th Revolution of 2011. This issue represents the pinnacle of contradiction in the country’s current constitution. At the same time, it reveals just how much...
Date of source: 20 Feb 2017
Among the participants is thinker and journalist Islām Biḥayrī, Dr. Khālid Muntaṣir, and journalist Īhāb Ṣubḥī. They will discuss contempt of religions in the shadow of a modern, civil state. Also participating: Midḥat Qulāda, Head of the Union of Coptic Organizations in Europe; from Sweden,...
Date of source: 18 Feb 2017
The article discusses how Weiderud’s visit to the Archbishopric comes within the scope of his visit to the city of Port Saʿīd in order to familiarize himself with the Archbishopric, its activities, and about the glory of the Coptic Church and its national and pastoral role in the region.
The...
Date of source: 1 Jan 2017
Fā’iq considered the travel bans placed on a number of human rights activists as a kind of imbalance, affirming that the state is committing some violations in its fight against terrorism, and that it is more important to adhere to the law as much as possible.
Speaking about pre-trial detentions...