Date of source: Monday, February 20, 2012
Dutch scholar Johannes Jansen contributed an essay – ‘The Religious Roots of Muslim Violence’ – to a 2011 anthology entitled, ‘Terrorism: Ideology, Law, and Policy’. In it he makes the case that violence and terrorism are part and parcel of the Islamic religion, traceable to its root sources at...
Date of source: Friday, May 6, 2011
The children of the Egyptian cleric Shaykh 'Umar 'Abd al-Rahman have appealed for his release from jail in the US, saying their father is too frail to stand imprisonment thousands of miles away from home.
'Abd al-Rahman's children called on the Egyptian government to request the US government to...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 4, 2011
'Abūd al-Zumur, founding member of Egypt's Islamic Jihād Organization and friend of al-Qā'idah's new chief Ayman al-Zawahrī, said on 3 March 2011 that Usāmah Bin Lādin's death will not affect the organization and pleaded against revenge attacks.
Zumur, who was in jail with Zawāhrī, said Bin Lādin...
Date of source: Monday, March 28, 2011
Arab-West Report, March 28, 2011 Title: Interview with Mr. Sharīf ‘Ismat ‘Abd al-Majīd (Founder of the “Hatef Islami”) about the current situation in Egypt Authors: Drs. Cornelis Hulsman, Arndt Emmerich and Judit Kuschnitzki
Introduction of Mr. Sharīf ‘Ismat ‘Abd al-Majīd:
In 2000 I left the hotel...
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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.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Al-Ahrām reports Wednesday that Arab media have given major attention to the interview granted to the paper on Monday by Habīb al-‘Ādlī, the Egyptian Minister of the Interior, in which he revealed information about the attack on the Church of the Two Saints in Alexandria on New Year’s Day.
It...
Date of source: Sunday, June 27, 2010
This article mentions the University of Asyut’s establishment of a centre for research and studies on human rights. The centre, which is directly under the charge of the university president, aims at promoting academic research in the field of human rights, propagating awareness of international,...
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2010
A dispute over land and a housing complex in a small town north of Cairo is saturated with tensions between its Muslim and Christian inhabitants.
Date of source: Monday, November 2, 2009
Dayrūt is threatened by the peril of sectarianism. People from the Upper Egyptian village appear to have a bad track record with the security forces and Islamist attacks. A considerable number of people from the village believe that the church is hiding Romānī, the young Coptic man who distributed...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 15, 2009
A De-radicalization Conference was held on 2-3 December 2009 in the Golden Tulip Flamingo Hotel, Cairo. The conference was hosted by the Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute. About 12 papers were presented, mostly by Egyptians, but with contributions from Norway, Denmark and the United Kingdom. In...