Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 29, 2019
Junghoon Lee (Republic of Korea) undergraduate in Arabic and Spanish, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, interning between February 2019 and June 2019.
I worked as a research intern for the Center for Arab West Understanding (CAWU) from February to June 2019. I chose to come to Egypt as my...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 28, 2019
Arrival of Yemenite asylum seekers in Korea
(Continued from part.1) Most Koreans did not feel that the refugee problems in Europe, including refugees following the Syrian civil war and Muslim radicalism, were related to them. But this situation has changed in 2018, after Korean mass media...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 28, 2019
Prologue
Unlike Europe, nations of the East Asian region consist of a single people. Some people call these races, but the definition of a race is very problematic and thus it is better to speak of peoples and cultures. Like Europe, Asia also contains extreme racists who emphasize that their...
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 17, 2018
This interview report reflects a brief discussion on August 5, 2018, between Libyan representatives (Mr. Abdulmajid Zuwama Alothmani [ʿAbd al-Majīd Zūwāmah alʿUthmānī], former Minister of Agriculture and current PDG of Libyan Petrol and Gas), Mr Ahmed Shawki Mansour [Aḥmad Shawqī Manṣūr], the GM...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, نيسان (أبريل) 2, 2019
Every year on January 11 or 12, Dayr Abu Hinnis, a small, isolated Christian village 186 miles south of Cairo, commemorates the Holy Family's flight into Egypt. The celebrations at Dayr Abu Hinnis begin in the early morning hours as Coptic pilgrims ferry across the Nile, singing and clapping...
Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 25, 2019
On March 12, I finally got to meet Leslie Maras, the Belgian prisoner I had been reading and writing about for a while as part of my internship at the Centre for Arab-West Understanding. Leslie Maras was sentenced to life for smuggling drugs into Egypt. His parents are trying to transfer him to a...
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 14, 2019
Preface by Cornelis Hulsman: In 1997 I started making press overviews on issues related to Muslim-Christian relations and founded the Religious News Service from the Arab World which later was renamed Arab-West Report. Between June 13, 1997 and July 11, 1998 I collected articles from al-Muslimoon...
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Political and social theorist Sir Isaiah Berlin famously compared nationalism to a ‘bent twig’, ‘forced down so severely that when released, it lashed back wit
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 21, 2019
Since the report of Yūsuf R. Kāmil about the transfer of prisoner treaties in Arab-West Report Leslie’s mother, Brigitte Maras, has been contacting different authorities in Belgium. They confirm there is no prisoner exchange treaty between Belgium and Egypt and therefore they can do nothing to get...