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1. Editorial
Date of source: Sunday, January 11, 2009
The issue of Christian students entering the Azhar is one that crops up from time to time but is seemingly never fully resolved. This week’s editorial draws attention to the issue and highlights article 13 by Sāmih Fawzī in which he discusses the debate.
1. Editorial
Date of source: Saturday, February 7, 2009
Cornelis Hulsman, co-founder of Arab-West Report, is planning to return to The Netherlands in September 2009 and has decided that the AWR editorials will be written with the English language editor. Gaza has obviously been a recurrent theme in many of the articles in this week’s issue and that is...
1. Editorial
Date of source: Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The Egyptian press has referred to Muhammad Sven Kalisch’s text about the Prophet Muhammad as an offence against Islam. However if the type of analytical approach he uses can be applied by Muslims toward the Bible then Muslims must accept it when others do the same about Islam. The effects of the U...
1. Editorial
Date of source: Monday, November 17, 2008
John Bradley’s new book ’Inside Egypt: The land of the Pharaohs on the brink of a revolution’ casts a critical eye over Egyptian society and Mubārak’s rule.
1. Editorial
Date of source: Saturday, June 7, 2008
The recent increase in religious satellite channels in the Middle East has led some critics to suggest that they have strayed from their original purpose of educating people about religion and become money-spinning centers for fundamentalist thought.
1. Editorial
Date of source: Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Increasing political participation of religious groups is a subject being raised more frequently. This issue presents a number of articles that address this topic, and comment on the role of these groups play in politics, namely how their religious influences shape and mold their political...
1. Editorial
Date of source: Thursday, May 29, 2008
Debates surface following the publication of a document regarding the freedom of expression in the Arab world by the Arab League. This issue also focuses on the future of political life in Egypt, and the difficulties that may arise.
1. Editorial
Date of source: Sunday, May 3, 2009
Coptic Easter celebrations were discussed in this week’s issue of AWR, however the issue that really stole the limelight was President Mubārak’s Easter message to Coptic expatriates.
1. Editorial
Date of source: Sunday, April 12, 2009
This week’s editorial reviews the report published by al-‘Utayfī in 1972 following the al-Khankah sectarian eventsand comments on whether any of the report’s recommendations were carried out.

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