Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 28, 2013
Differing opinions between Coptic movements and activists over the upcoming parliamentary elections have recently come to light. The official position of the Church is not to interfere in the electoral decisions of Copts, whereas activists and the Coptic Movement are united in calling for a boycott...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 2, 2012
Public Prosecutor ‘Abd al-Majīd Mahmūd ordered immediate investigations into reports accusing the Dutch ambassador in Cairo of attempting to foment sectarian strife by providing his country with misinformation about the conditions of Copts in Egypt. [‘Umar al-Khūlī, al-Sabāh, Oct. 2, p. 3] Read...
Date of source: الخميس, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 15, 2011
Lex Runderkamp’s video on the incident of the village of al-Mārīnāb in Idfū city, Aswan governorate was used by al-Mukhalis TV website on December 7, 2011 [Read al-Mukhalis TV website comment on the video], a Salafī outlet, and before this by articles in al-Distūr, December 4, 2011 and al-Misriyūn...
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 5, 2011
I am writing this article in response to what Lex Runderkamp has broadcast on the Dutch TV on November 27th, 2011, concerning al-Mārīnāb incidents that took place in the beginning of last October. I have been stimulated too by what was published by al-Masrīyūn newspaper, a religious-oriented...
Date of source: السبت, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 10, 2011
Lex Runderkamp, the journalist responsible for the “news report” of NOS-TV on the tensions surrounding a church under construction in Mārīnāb, responded to the commentary about his film in Arab-West Report in a text I promptly translated for Arab-West Report and gave to Lamīs Yahyá, author of our...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 6, 2011
Veteran journalist Lex Runderkamp visited Egypt to report about what happened on September 30th in Mārīnāb. He reported for Dutch TV, in prime time, on November 26th [Title: “Conflict between Copts and Muslims is complicated”].
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 17, 2006
The author opposes a draft bill prohibiting holding meetings and demonstrations in mosques because he believes that the mosque is a place for prayer and for discussing the nation’s issues.