Date of source: الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 11, 2011
President Mubarak resigned today. We have witnessed much of the events leading up to his resignation showing that reporting in the West provided a biased image. Images of Tahrir Square dominated most media since January 25 but little was reported about other parts of the country.
Foreigners...
Date of source: الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 11, 2011
Date of source: الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 4, 2011
I visited Egypt with a Christian delegation between January 21 and February 4.
It was remarkable to see banners throughout Egypt with texts about Muslim-Christian unity. No one, however, knew whether these were just words or not but in the days following the revolt, which began on January 25,...
Date of source: السبت, شباط (فبراير) 5, 2011
Dan Wooding, founder of ASSIST Ministries, reported on the massacre of a Christian family in the village of Sharona near Maghagha, Minya province, on January 30, news which was terribly shocking.
Wooding obtained the news from Mary Abdelmessih, writing for the Assyrian International News Agency (...
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 1, 2011
AWR Chief Editor Cornelis Hulsman says that the government, Muslims, and Christians need to work together to address the growing sectarian tension in Egypt in order to prevent future attacks, such as the the New Year's Day bombing of a Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria, which left 21 dead and...
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: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 2, 2010
Nasr Hāmid Abū Zayd, a leading Egyptian Qur'anic thinker, passed away in July at the age of 66. He had become a good friend of the Arab West Report over the years. In the first of a series of articles commemorating the life and work of Nasr Abū Zayd, Chief Editor Cornelis Hulsman looks back on...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 25, 2010
Over the last several weeks, controversial remarks by Bishop Bīshūy of Damietta and Islamic thinker Dr. Salīm al-‘Awwā have filled the pages of the Egyptian newspapers. AWR Chief Editor Cornelis Hulsman provides a recap of the events....
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 9, 2010
Cornelis Hulsman's farewell speech given at Cairo University in June 2009.