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The writer criticizes the current conditions of Muslims in the light of a report issued by the “Pew Global Attitudes Project,” an organization under the chairmanship of Madeleen Albright.
The Egyptian society suffers from schizophrenia. It is a façade of civilization and a core of backwardness. Haja A., the customs service official about whom Adel Hamouda wrote, is an example on this schizophrenia. She is veiled, refuses to accompany men and fasts Mondays and Thursdays. But at the...
I found a very strange letter sent on the September 2, 2004 to the US president George Bush and nine American pubic figures who are congressmen and members of the US Commission on International Religious Freedoms. This strange letter has a very astonishing title reading “An official at the American...
The article by Ms. Karīmān Hamza, published by Sawt al-Umma last week, pushed me to rewrite on sedition and Coptic problems.
The thing I liked most about Anbā Bisantī’s interview was that immense amount of candor, clarity and free expression of ideas but I was uneasy about some ideas he mentioned.
I received an email from Dr. Joseph Yousuf Ghubriyāl entitled “Have mercy on the Copts of the nation.” The next day Dr. Joseph came to my office to discuss many issues. I told him that we should not solve national problems in the church. I then asked him: “Why did the church insist that Wafā’...
Rafique Iscander, the head of the American Coptic Union, sent a letter to President Bush. In this letter he made the events in southern Sudan, the crimes of the civil war in Lebanon and the individual incidents that took place in Egypt appear similar. He wrote that in return for the aid Egypt...
The author explained that he did not mean to criticize the article of Fahmi Howeidi about establishing an Islamic party [see RNSAW, week 52, article 4] in his article "Playing with fire, sheikh!." It was rather a rational discussion of all the points mentioned in Howeidi’s article. He also pointed...
The author comments on Fahmi Howeidi’s article about establishing an Islamic party. He expressed his surprise at the fact that Howeidi discussed the idea only from a constitutional angle but not from a political one. Howeidi’s idea that the constitution does not prohibit founding religious parties...
Bishop Wissa’s name is central to the understanding of the violence [Fitna] in Al-Kosheh, both in 1998 and in the more recent events. Since the first events of Al-Koshh in 1998, his name has become known outside his bishopric and Egypt’s borders and [his name] was repeated continuously in the Press...

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