Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 3, 2013
On Wednesday, April 27th, we've had the pleasure to show the movie "One Hand", a film produced by Johnny and Rebecca Weixler with help of contacts provided by Arab-West Report. The film had been earlier presented and well received at the well-attended MESA Film Festival in Denver, Colorado, USA....
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 3, 2013
I have been asked by the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts at the University of West Bohemia in the Czech Republic to provide four lectures about Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt. I have lectured at the same university and department in 2004. I also attended...
Date of source: الاثنين, شباط (فبراير) 25, 2013
I called a long-time personal friend of mine, Father Raphael of Tāmīyah in Faiyum Oasis, on February 21, who found the media reporting about the attack in Sarisnah much exaggerated. Tāmīyah is not far from Sarisnah and Father Raphael knows the churches in his area well. In the past he has not been...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 15, 2012
On October 9, 2012, the Egyptian multiparty delegation visiting the Netherlands met at the CDA party office with CDA campaign leader Mr. Hans Janssens and Ms. Hester Tjalma-den Oudsten, Director of the CDA bestuurdersvereniging (management association). The PowerPoint presentation Ms. Tjalma had...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 9, 2012
We received from Ms. Judith van Tiggelen of The Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy the recordings of the discussion between Dutch politicians and the Egyptian multiparty delegation about the process of working towards a new constitution in Egypt. Because we had no staff to make a...
Date of source: الاثنين, شباط (فبراير) 11, 2013
Pope Benedict XVI’s unexpected resignation makes one reflect on his views concerning Islam.Pope John Paul II was immensely popular in the Muslim world. Pope Benedict XVI was not. This was notably due to his 2006 Regensburg lecture on violence and Islam which has continued to haunt him over the...
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 7, 2013
On February 4 the International Crisis Group presented a Conflict Alert about Egypt. The analysis is good but yet some comments can and should be made:ICG:It is difficult to know which is most dangerous: the serious uptick in street violence; President Morsi’s and the Muslim Brotherhood’s serial...
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 30, 2013
Jamāl al-Bannā, a great friend of Arab-West Report, passed away today at the age of 93. Jamāl al-Bannā, born in 1920, was the younger brother of Hassan al-Bannā, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, whose policies he rejected. Jamāl al-Bannā was widely perceived by Egyptians as a liberal thinker...
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 26, 2013
On Friday, the 25th I was in Tahrir for many hours meeting people and discussing the future of Egypt. I saw a few young men with faces covered in black. “These belong to the Black Bloc,” George Missīhah said, who had led a march from his hometown, Qanātir to Tahrir. This is a new group, fighters...
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 17, 2013
In October 2012 Arab-West Report organized for the Dutch political parties VVD (liberal) and CDA (Christian Democrat) a visit of representatives of five Egyptian political parties to The Netherlands in the context of the MATRA South Programme of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs that is...