Professor of

Islamic Studies at the Islamic Research Institute Mustafa al-Shak‘a said orientalism began in the

early 15th century to study Muslim affairs and their weaknesses. Ensuing from this, the

missionary war started with what we call the Christianization of Muslims that came to a peak

within some 130 years of the colonization of Algeria, and Lebanon before it gained independence

in 1943.

- See art. 6: Who rules the Azhar…the Grand Imam or the US ambassador?!

- See art. 8: Freedom in Islamic civil society.

- See art. 12: Sectarian strife or ignorant fanaticism?!

- See art. 14: Costantine's handover to church violates the constitution

- See art. 17: Religion for God… home for sale.

- See art. 22: Phone call from top official behind the ban of soap opera Bint min Shubr?.

- See art. 31: The complexity of remarriage for Copts.