Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 5, 2015
CAWU Researcher Rene Witteveen met with Mina Magdy, General Coordinator of the Maspero Youth Union on October 10th 2014.
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The following study aims to explain the process of racism by defining both the biological and social concept of race. The author subsequently builds on this to describe the question of racism of Somalis in Cairo, Egypt.
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 25, 2015
An Egyptian non-governmental delegation traveled between September 1 and 6, 2015, to the Netherlands to meet with various Dutch officials and organizations. The purpose behind the visit was to foster Egyptian-Dutch cooperation and strengthen Egyptian-Dutch bilateral relationship. This document,...
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 2, 2015
Introduction of Cornelis Hulsman of the Egyptian non-Government delegation in Parliament
Thank you Mr. Chairman for making this meeting possible. I have been in this room in a previous meeting on Egypt in August 2013. We are now two years later. I am mostly living and working in Egypt for an NGO...
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 2, 2015
Purpose of this visit was to create understanding between Egypt and the West, Muslims and Christians. The Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU) advocates dialogue based on facts and acceptance of peoples of different beliefs and convictions but does not want to advocate any political or...
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 21, 2015
The Chinese community in Cairo has been continuously growing over the past years, as Chinese and the Egyptian political and economic relations are becoming steadily more intertwined. Last Friday, September 18, the Egyptian-Chinese Friendship Association and the Egyptian Friendship Organisation...
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 19, 2015
Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Daily News Egypt and al-Bawaba news all report about the ban on reporting on the killings of Mexican tourists in Egypt’s Western desert. There is growing public anger against the absence of transparency and increased media gags.
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 19, 2015
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W. Winston Skinner reported on September 17, 2015 in the Times-Herald that an Egyptian native Christian missionary, in the article called pastor X, “told about 95 people at the International Leadership Team in Carrollton on Tuesday that...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 15, 2015
Recommendation letter for the Center for Arab-West Understanding
Between 1963 and 1977 I was teaching Old Testament at the Coptic Evangelical seminary in Abbasiyya, Cairo, during which period I lived with my family in Heliopolis. This period has left me ever since with a deep sense of involvement...
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Christianity in the Arab World was flourishing in relative terms prior to the First World War and consequent break-up of the Ottoman Empire.