Date of source: Saturday, September 26, 2020
Introduction:
Inclusive citizenship seeks to go beyond the intellectual debates of recent years on democratization and participation to explore a related set of issues around changing conceptions of citizenship. Peoples’ understandings of what it means to be a citizen go to the heart of various...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Cornelis Hulsman, founding editor of Arab-West Report, and Gurjinder Khambay, second-year student in International Studies at Leiden University, The Netherlands, specializing in the Middle East, interviewed Dr. Jan Slomp, a major leader in Christian-Muslim dialogue at all levels, through Webex, on...
Date of source: Monday, January 6, 2025
In a speech to Coptic Orthodox Christians, President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī stated that everything that happens is decreed by God and Egyptians have to do whatever they can to protect the homeland through friendship and love for one another.
Date of source: Monday, January 6, 2025
Renowned media figure ʿAmr Adīb has said that President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī’s statements during his visit to the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ to offer congratulations over Coptic Christmas addressed all Egyptians and went beyond mere well-wishing.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 11, 2024
It is important to pay attention to the minority in Lebanon since the main effects of the events in Syria are about a shift in the political weight of power, and maybe a change in geography as well, given the discussion of division in Syria.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Armenian Catholic Bishop of Damascus George Asʿadūryān said he met with officials from the “new authority” in Syria and received assurances about Christians, asserting “there are no threats posted to Christians at present as the situation is currently quiet.”
Date of source: Sunday, December 15, 2024
Ten years ago, extremists in the streets of Syria used to chant “Alawites to coffins and Christians to Beirut.” According to what people who escaped the Syrian turmoil to the Lebanese city of Zahlé on the borders with Syria have told me when I toured the area back in 2014, the chanting has evolved...
Date of source: Thursday, October 17, 2024
On Wednesday, 16th October, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune accused “extremist circles in France” of “attempting to distort collective memory and consign it to oblivion.”
Date of source: Saturday, October 26, 2024
According to a legislator, international accords governing refugee conditions were consulted to develop the new draft law on foreigner asylum to Egypt, which the House of Representatives Defense & National Security Committee recently adopted.
Date of source: Thursday, October 17, 2024
Muḥammad ʿIzz al-ʿArab, an expert at Al-Ahrām Center for Political & Strategic Studies (ACPSS), said that Israel has been sending mixed messages and is currently not planning on stopping its war, which is being carried out simultaneously on multiple fronts.