Date of source: Sunday, August 26, 2007
The article discussions the furor that was caused by a document that allegedly showed how the U.S. was funneling aid into Christian organizations, and how the reporting on the issue help to stir up a media tempest.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Sulaymān Shafīq refers to three different issues that were widely discussed in the Egyptian media in 2007. Strongly related to the value of the freedom of belief, these issues are the Bahā’ī case, Christians converting to Islam and vice versa, and finally, the case of Muḥammad Ḥijāzī and his wife...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 15, 2007
The author argues that men of religion, lawyers, and less-educated people have become Egyptian society’s decision-makers and its new intellectual elite. They are an influential force that shapes the mind of the average citizen on the issues of conversion and Muslim-Christian relations.
Date of source: Friday, August 10, 2007
The article discusses the intellectual atmosphere in the Islamic world. ‘Abd al-Mu‘ṭī Bayyumī criticizes the haphazard opinions spread by writers who have no plain identity concerning the issues they handle.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Ḥāfiz believes that Egyptian officials should adopt a firm stance on a document that shows an alleged shift in the U.S. annual aid to Egypt, which assumed that the aid would be focused in areas with Coptic majority.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 7, 2007
The article is a human-history dialogue. The writer depicts an imaginative and figurative conversation between humans and history as vivid characters who discuss the issue of the state and religion.
Date of source: Sunday, July 29, 2007
The author discusses the current political trends in Egypt, and considers how history has shaped them. Is division in society a new phenomenon, was it pre-existing, and what should be addressed to strengthen society as a whole.
Date of source: Sunday, July 29, 2007
Another Coptic teenager disappears. Her family accused a Muslim young man of kidnapping the girl. The father said that the minutes he signed at the police station had been falsified, and that after he had signed they added his alleged acknowledgment of a love relationship between his daughter and...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Bishop Bisantī of Ḥilwān and al-Ma‘sarah and one of the main references in the Coptic Orthodox Church asserted that the Coptic Orthodox Church has rejected all forms of foreign interference and has denied all allegations about the church’s intention to assign a successor to Pope Shenouda. Many...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2007
A defrocked pastor and his son pass themselves off as Evangelical pastors and issue distorted conversion and marriage documents.