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Egypt’s parliament passes a law regulating fatwas in the face of difference of opinions between al-Awqāf and al-Azhar
Date of source: 12 May 2025
By May ʿAbd al-Munʿim
As differences emerged between the Ministry of al-Awqāf (Religious Endowments) and al-Azhar, the Egyptian House of Representatives approved on Sunday (May 11) the draft law on regulating the issuance of fatwas (religious edicts), which aims to confront fatwas issued without a legal framework. The...
Reviewed by ʿAmr al-Misrī
Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Dispute on authority of different bodies to issue fatwas sparks religious and legislative row in Egypt
Date of source: 5 May 2025
By No Author Mentioned
A dispute over the bodies with powers to issue fatwas (religious opinions in Islam) caused a religious and legislative controversy in Egypt as the House of Representatives’ Religious Affairs & Awqāf Committee approved in principle a draft law regulating the issuance of fatwas. The parliament...
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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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"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...
Reviewed by Joelle Elise Mayoraz
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

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From Living in a Religious Bubble to Interreligious Dialogue
Date of Publication: Sunday, December 31, 2023
By: Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Intercultural and interreligious dialogue brought Cornelis Hulsman from a conservative Christian Reformed bubble in the Netherlands to a deeply ecumenical attitude, refraining from absolutist statements about faith since any religion is the outcome of a human search for meaning in life. Hulsman was asked to reflect on his personal development by
Christian Statistics in Egypt: A Look at the 1986 CAPMAS Census
Date of Publication: Saturday, December 30, 2023
By: Mariam Aly Ibrahim
 The purpose of this study is to present the most accurate data on the statistics of Christians in Egypt. The data were collected by the Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) 1986 census, the last year that the CAPMAS included the number of Christians for the smallest administrative units and computed these in
A Difficult Dialogue with Dutch Arabist Dr. Hans Jansen Who Lost Faith in Dialogue with Muslims
Date of Publication: Friday, December 30, 2022
By: Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
This text about Dutch Arabist and scholar of Islam Prof. Dr. Johannes (Hans) G. Jansen (1942-2015) is based on Cornelis Hulsman’s personal experiences with Prof. Jansen as a student at Leiden University, the Netherlands, but even more on the email exchanges with Hans Jansen in 2008 and between August 1, 2011, and April 5, 2014. Jansen developed a
The Tribunal of Love: The Four Stages of Love in Ibn al-Fāriḍ’s Poetry
Date of Publication: Monday, October 10, 2022
By: Lara Gibson
Lara Gibson participated in the CAWU-Heliopolis University summer school between June 27 and July 6, 2018, and interned with our center between July 8 and October 4, 2018. Lara studied Arabic language and culture at Durham University, UK. In her letter of motivation, she wrote “your programme appeals to me primarily because of the hands-on and
Bubastis, Capital of Egypt and Ezekiel, The Prophet in Exile
Date of Publication: Wednesday, December 22, 2021
By: Konrad Knolle
After the publication of Be Thou There; the Holy Family’s Journey in Egypt (AUC Press, 2001), Cornelis Hulsman organized a number of ‘pilgrimages’ to locations of the Holy Family in Egypt. One of these was with the German Evangelical Church in Boulaq, Cairo, to Tal Basṭa, Bubastis in the prophecy of Ezekiel. Bubastis had been the capital of Egypt
Israeli Apartheid? A Critical Analysis of a Contentious Debate
Date of Publication: Tuesday, November 30, 2021
By: Britt van Rossum
Over the last few decades, comparisons have continuously been drawn between Israel and its policies and the system of South African apartheid. Certain events in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have given impulses to the use of this analogy, such as the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory after the Six-Day war in 1967, the
Political violence, activism and conflict
Date of Publication: Thursday, November 18, 2021
By: Janneke Wijman
This research explores the question as to how Wasatia as an Islamist movement seeks to represent the Palestinian moderate voice in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is examined through an in-depth interview with the founder of the movement, content analysis, and the use of a theoretical framework that combines nonviolence, social movement
Copts during the first century of Islam and that history’s relevance today
Date of Publication: Sunday, November 14, 2021
By: Harald Suermann (Prof.) (Dr.)
The Arabic or Islamic conquest of Egypt in 639-642 CE had far-reaching consequences. Discussions of this historical event play a major role in modern Muslim-Christian discussions. Christians speak of a conquest whereas Muslims tend to speak of the opening of Egypt or liberation of Egypt from its Roman/Byzantine occupiers. The shifting views of
Efforts of foreign governments trying to influence politics in Egypt; An Egyptian Ambassador’s views on Dutch-Egyptian relations after President Mursī had been removed from power in 2013
Date of Publication: Sunday, December 27, 2020
By: Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
The following text contains sensitive information and highlights various concerns from an Egyptian ambassador regarding foreign influence on political and environmental decisions and movements in Egypt. A lot of the content regards European countries, a focus on questionable Dutch decisions in the period the Muslim Brotherhood tried to come to
Between science, belief and wishful thinking: Reviewing Dr. Maḥmūd ʿUmar’s “The Well of the Holy Family in Tal Basṭa.”
Date of Publication: Wednesday, December 23, 2020
By: Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
Having a PhD degree is not a guarantee for good academic work. Dr. Mahmoud Omar [Maḥmūd ʿUmar] may have been a good archeologist, but he ruined his own academic reputation by interpreting medieval traditions as historical facts, as descriptions that have actually happened. “What we today understand as ‘facts’ did not exist centuries ago,”

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

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

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