Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 3, 2012
With a touch of humor throughout, Mgr. Michael Fitzgerald introduced his role as the Vatican Ambassador to Egypt to a delegation of mostly Catholic Austrian students and professors from the University of Vienna. This visit was organized by Arab-West Report and was also attended by some staff and...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 5, 2012
I’ve always been respecting this man ever since I got to know him for the first time in the summer of 1989. Our relations gradually grew stronger that I feel honored to have been introduced to him.
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 7, 2012
Shaykh Yāsir Burhāmī, the deputy leader of the al-Da’wah al-Salafīyah group, said the appointment of a Copt as vice president runs counter to the sharī’ah because a vice president could represent the head of state in many of his powers, adding the president’s faith must be compatible with the state...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 2, 2012
Penetrating the Coptic boycott against Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate Muhammad Mursī for the first time, two envoys of Bishops Bula and Armiyā, one of them a businessman, held a secret meeting with Secretary General of the group’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) ‘Isām al-‘Iryān. [...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 29, 2012
Kees, Cornelis Hulsman, a prominent Dutch reporter who has been covering Egypt's news, especially those related to the Egyptian Coptic community since 1976. Hulsman is seen in the Netherlands as one of the one of the reference figures and experts in the Egyptian affairs. Hulsman is invited to...
Date of source: الاثنين, حزيران (يونيو) 4, 2012
Bishop Bīshūy, Secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Holy Synod, severely criticized Cornelis Hulsman, Editor-in-Chief of the electronic news bulletin Arab-West Report (AWR), over the latter’s last week interview with al-Watan newspaper in which he accused the senior clergyman of being "sectarian”. [...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 27, 2012
Al-Qā’idah Organization threatened the Muslim Brotherhood group and the April 6 Movement that it will move its activities to Egypt if they continued to “act foolishly as if they were guardians over the Egyptian people’s will,” said a media spokesman of the armed network. [Muhammad Fū’ād, Rose al-...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 22, 2012
In a few days, Copts in Upper Egypt are going to cast their votes in the presidential elections amidst expectations that only three – Ahmad Shafīq, ‘Amr Mūsá and Hamdīn Sabbāhī – will garner these votes. [Amīr al-Sarrāf, al-Wafd, May 22, p. 9] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 18, 2012
A senior Salafist preacher said the Islamic sharī’ah must be clearly mentioned in the constitution as the main source of legislation, not just the principles of the sharī’ah as sought by liberals and seculars who only want to empty the sharī’ah of its content. [Muhammad Abū al-‘Aynayn, al-Misrī al-...
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 19, 2012
Dozens of Coptic women gathered outside the St. Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah on Friday (May 18) to protest statements by Bishop Bīshūy, Secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod, in which he called on Christian women to observe modest clothing and “follow in the...