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In 2011, Egypt will receive $5 million less from America for the promotion of democracy than it did the previous year. CIDT's Jayson Casper examines America's motivation for its continued involvement in Egypt, for the better and the worse. 
Human rights activist and Legal Adviser to the Church, Najīb Jibrā'īl, is organizing a demonstration to take place on September 11th outside the Supreme Court of Egypt. This demonstration will protest against the mass burning of the Qur'ān scheduled for the same day, organized by American Priest...
During Obama’s meeting with President Mubarak, Copts protested the situation of Christians in Egypt. Demonstrators held banners with slogans such as "Mubarak: Make peace at home first…No more gross injustice towards Copts" and "Stop forcing Coptic girls into Islam". Some believe that Mubarak was...
In an interview with Al-Misrī al-Yawm, Professor Ayman Shabānah, professor of Islamic and Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, stresses that the American President, Barack Obama, seeks to open a new dialogue with Muslims in the United States and the West, as well as the entire Islamic...
 Cornelis Hulsman's farewell speech given at Cairo University in June 2009.
 Jayson Casper reflects on his experience watching the football world cup in an Egyptian cafe.
This article focuses on the story of an Armenian orphanage during the 1915 Armenian genocide in Turkey. Many children whose parents were killed were sent to an orphanage near Beirut, where they were beaten, malnourished, and forced to convert to Islam. Many of these children died there.
The article discusses the letter sent by a western, Coptic organization to the US president to dismiss the Egyptian ambassador. 
There are several international attempts to establish inter-religious institutions, in cooperation with the Azhar institution in Egypt, to strengthen Islamic-Christian cooperation.
Jeff Jacoby sets the persecution of the Copts in Egypt in a context of wider persecution against Christians all over the world, including in Iraq, China, Somalia and others.

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