Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 23, 2001
Professors at the AUC responded in utter amazement to the sentence against their colleague Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim. His arrest and sentence to seven years prison was preceded by much negative press that should have served as a warning that something was going wrong. A personal friend of Ibrahim...
Date of source: الجمعة, تموز (يوليو) 7, 2000
[The title is a mistake of the editor. Ibrahim is not Coptic. The proposed title was: Egypt´s reputation endangered.] The arrest of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim was preceded by an extremely negative Egyptian press. It seemed as if this functioned as a warning for worse to come. People close to...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 30, 2002
Western press reporting about the court case of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim.
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 15, 2002
The Copts Daily Digest reported that the website of the US Copts Association was hacked by a Muslim. The hacker reported he doesn´t like their website and wanted to scare them. The US Copts Association reported that they are frequently threatened on Muslim sites but were not able to produce more...
Date of source: السبت, تموز (يوليو) 6, 2002
Omar Ahmed, chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called the statement of Jerry Vines a ‘reckless, anti-Islamic statement´ which could lead to more hate crimes against Muslims in the US. Vines´ statement and other similar statements not only create a wedge between Muslims and...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 11, 2002
Al-Midan was the only Egyptian publication giving attention to the petition of the US Copts Association about al-Kosheh. It is customary for the US Copts Association to prepare petitions, demonstrations or other activities prior to a visit of president Mubarak to the US.Muslim-Christian-Jewish...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 22, 2002
Nova, a major Dutch television program presented on June 13 a number of statements recorded in several Friday sermons in Dutch mosques. The Dutch Daily Trouw reported the TV program, including quotes from the sermons, and followed this up with several other articles. The author gives an overview of...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 15, 2002
The Cairo Foreign Press Association organized a visit to Coptic Old Cairo with Prof. Dr. Peter Grossmann and asked Cornelis Hulsman to write a report for the FPA Bulletin in May 2002. Hulsman pointed out that visiting Old Cairo with a scholar is very different from visiting it with Coptic clergy.
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 4, 2002
Because of the criticism in the Egyptian press on Coptic migrants we continued our overview of contributions on the Copts Daily Digest (see for the first overview RNSAW, 2002, week 14A, art. 11). Many responses in the Digest are strongly polarizing.
Date of source: السبت, نيسان (أبريل) 20, 2002
Osama Salama´s words are sharp, full of anger about Coptic emigrants. People in Egypt, other Arab countries, Europe, the US and Israel itself protest against the Israeli atrocities against the Palestinians. But where are the voices of the emigrant Copts and Arab Christians? We checked the Copts...