Date of source: Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Volkhard Windfuhr was born in 1937 in Essen, Germany and migrated to Egypt with his mother in 1955. As a German correspondent in Egypt, Volkhard Windfuhr is naturally involved in Arab-West relations. Besides journalistic reporting he has co-authored a book concerning 9/11, arguing for what he...
Date of source: Saturday, May 30, 2015
Speaking at a conference in Germany, Hāfiz Abū Siʿda, President of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, explained that Egypt has witnessed a wave of terrorism since the removal of deposed President Muhammad Mursī. He added that the terrorist attacks in the country have led to human rights...
Date of source: Friday, May 29, 2015
The pressures exerted upon the Egyptian government from foreign government in Turkey, Qatar, and others has failed to stop the government from issuing death sentences against the Muslim Brotherhood’s top leaders. The Global Post reported that it was unlikely that exiled Brotherhood groups in...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 20, 2015
The League of Egyptians in Germany revealed the falsehood of a statement made by Norbert Lammert, President of the German Parliament that he had canceled an upcoming meeting with Egyptian President ‘Abd al-Fatāh al-Sīsī on account of Egypt’s human rights abuses. In a statement, the League...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 2, 2016
The crackdown on freedom of speech and expression continues in Egypt. This last weekend an Egyptian-German academic was denied entry and a social and political cartoonist was arrested and detained for 24 hours.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 18, 2015
One of the biggest victories of the economic conference is the invitation of Angela Merkel to president Sīsī to visit Germany, because Merkel was the “last Muslim Brotherhood ally in western Europe and this invitation implies a recognition of the legitimacy of June 30 2013 revolution”. “worth...
Date of source: Thursday, December 17, 2015
While Egypt has a long and diverse history of immigration from Africa, the Middle East and even Europe, Chinese immigrants are still a relatively recent and rare phenomena on the Nile. Over the past ten to fifteen years, however, fuelled through the economic rise of China and consequently the...
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We often hear about the radical statements and fatwás of Muslims and about uncompromising Christian or secular activists who can appeal to populist sentiments and mistrust of the ‘other’.
Date of source: Monday, March 4, 2013
Transcript of an interview with Dr. Essam Al-Haddad on government efforts to stabilize the country since this is a pre-requisite to get Egypt out of its current economic difficulties. Thus questions addressed much repeated critiques on the Mursī administration.
Date of source: Saturday, February 25, 2012
On November 25, 2011, Al-Misrī al-Yawm, now called Egypt Independent, was the first publication that reported about Najīb Jubrā’īl’s “NGO report: 93,000 Copts left Egypt since March.”