Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 16, 2011
The Egyptian religious establishment adhered to its position of favoring stability and opposing the spread of chaos and sabotage. It has also supported the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and the five communiqués it has issued since it took over following the stepping down of President Ḥusnī...
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 9, 2011
Editor-in-chief Cornelis Hulsman: Dr. Michael Burslem (78) is a retired Canadian medical doctor and is a longtime friend of mine. He and his wife usually spend the winter months in Cairo when weather is substantially more pleasant in Egypt then in Canada and they spend the summers in Canada when...
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Interreligious tensions in Egypt are, unfortunately, very often related to church construction.
Date of source: السبت, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 11, 2010
Husām ‘Abd al-Qādir commented on Researcher Husām Tammām's book.
The book talks about how Muslim Brotherhood embraced Salafiiyah due to Jamāl ‘Abd al-Nāsir 's campaign against them, which led to the fleeing of some of their leaders to the Arabian Peninsula (where the Salafīyah Wahābīyah main...
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 25, 2010
Father 'Abd al-Masīh and Salīb Mattá Sawīris, member of the Coptic Orthodox Community Council, states that Copts are not revolutionist. However their stance on the July Revolution is difficult to understand. Most Coptic thinkers and writers and even ordinary Copts carry hostile feelings towards the...
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 25, 2010
Some Coptic voices argue that citizenship and national unity have deteriorated since the 1952 Revolution. They state that Copts participated effectively in political life before the revolution and that they were elected by Muslims and reached leading positions.
It is only after the revolution that...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 8, 2010
AWR Chief Editor Cornelis Hulsman critiques a review of Martin Gilbert's In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands....
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 22, 2010
Coptic thinker Dr. Rafik Habeeb says the reason the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar isn't as influential with Muslims as Pope Shenouda III is with Copts is that unlike the Al-Azhar, the Church is financially and administratively independent of state. The Church's strength also draws from the fact that it...
Date of source: الاثنين, حزيران (يونيو) 7, 2010
The author talks about the ruling party’s plans to expand in order to compete with the National Democratic Party, but face limited capacities to guarantee their domination.
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 16, 2010
Anba Barnaba, Bishop of Rome, talks to Watani about the Copts in Italy and those in Egypt. He speaks of immigration, integration, discrimination, and the Egyptian nationality for all Copts.