Date of source: Tuesday, July 30, 2002
Western press reporting about the court case of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim.
Date of source: Saturday, July 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: Tuesday, June 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: Saturday, June 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: Saturday, May 25, 2002
The motivation, objectives and program of an RNSAW workshop for Egyptian journalists in cooperation with the Al-Ahram Institute for Regional Journalism. The workshop is financed by the Dutch Embassy and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and covers human rights issues, women, Western and Arab media, freedom...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 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: Saturday, May 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: Saturday, April 20, 2002
Dr. Kamal Boraiq'a responded to the summary of Bishop Cragg's lecture in the RNSAW. Dr. Boraiq´a does not believe polemic discussions at to the understanding of the faith of the other and even could lead to conflict. Dr. Boraiq´a then continues to explain the Islamic point of view of participating...
Date of source: Thursday, April 11, 2002
The author gives his opinion of the lecture of Bishop Cragg and writes about “the historic reception of Dr. Cragg in the oldest Islamic university.” This visit has offered a good opportunity for students at the Azhar to learn about Christianity. “Meetings like this foster understanding between the...
Date of source: Monday, April 15, 2002
The article gives the impression that the general opinion in Germany is opposed to the building of mosques. Revd. Dr. Wolfram Reiss, a German scholar and pastor who published before in the RNSAW, argued in correspondence with the RNSAW that this view is incorrect.