Date of source: Tuesday, December 26, 2006
The
author comments on killing a Catholic 16-year-old girl
in Minia because of her relation with a Muslim man.
He says that it was the first incident of murder to occur
inside a Catholic community, which shows that it
has been influenced by the Orthodox religious hard-liners and the
violence...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 19, 2002
The National Coptic American Committee issued a report including accusations about all the leaders of Egyptian churches and distorting the integral body of Copts. The article gives the comments of some Egyptian researchers interested in national unity and in the Coptic issue. The RNSAW received a...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2006
The author is criticizing the influence of clerics on the minds of the ordinary people, calling for an end to this clerical domination in order to allow the people to think for themselves, not through a class of theocrats.
Date of source: Sunday, December 25, 2005
Sulaymān Shafīq says that the turnout for the recent presidential and parliamentary elections has revealed that nearly 80 percent of Egyptians are "out of service.”
Date of source: Sunday, October 9, 2005
Sulaymān Shafīq argues that according to the 1995 statistics [Reviewer's note: The author perhaps was mistaken because the statistics were conducted in 1996, not 1995, as Christian surveys are usually made every 10 years and the last ones took place in 1986], Copts represent 22.5 percent of the...
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
Henry Laurens is on his way to take the place of Jack Perck [name is transliterated from Arabic original, we do not know whether the spelling of his name is correct], and Louis Masignon in the specialization and analysis of Arab issues. This young researcher, who is not yet fifty, was recently...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 16, 2000
In his book "The Risk in the Deal Between the Government and the Groups of Violence", Abdel Rahim, a journalist for Al-Ahali, speaks about the confrontation between the government and the groups of violence and the deal between them. The book speaks about the "initiative of the Jihad organization"...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 25, 1998
The strangest thing in the events of Al-Koshh was the campaign that was waged by the State authorities against the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, that was used as a scapegoat by the security to cover its violations and acts of group torture.