Date of source: Tuesday, May 3, 2005
AWR questioned LCHR about how they see their role in the defence of Egypt’s small farmers.
Date of source: Sunday, May 1, 2005
Rose al-Yousuf, March 26-April 1, 2005, AWR, 2005, week 13, art. 11 was angry about the campaign of several human rights organizations, including the Land Center for Human Rights, about the death of Nafīsa from Sarandou village in al-Buhayra. AWR asked Karam Sābir, Executive Manager of The Land...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 5, 2003
Many non-historians tend to extrapolate backwards when thinking about history. The great Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun wrote it is dangerous to judge the past by the present. We are now living through a period in which there are some who wish to pit religion against religion and allege that co-...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 4, 2003
Arab media are voicing their frustration about president Bush’s campaign against terrorism that resembles medieval crusaders. Bush is using more religion in his vocabulary than most if any current heads of state of Muslim countries. This is putting pressure on them to use more Muslim religious...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 4, 2003
The ongoing polarization between the Western and Arab worlds is quickly spiraling down to a confrontation which will cause great damage to both the Western and Arab worlds. That polarization can still be avoided but only if people are willing to understand the causes of this polarization and are...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 12, 2003
From 1995-1997, during which time he worked in Cairo as a correspondent, Sunni Khalid deepened his love for Egypt. These were also the preparatory years for the RNSAW in whose development Sunni played a role. He concludes there is as much political extremism, masquerading as piety, in the West as...
Date of source: Saturday, February 22, 2003
The influence of polarization of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the Egyptian press.
Remark on an article about intellectual terrorism published in this issue.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Comments on the article of Dr. Zeinab ‘Abdel Aziz in October Magazine in which she attacks Christian faith. Articles like this have a negative impact on Arab-West and Muslim-Christian relations.
Dutch Catholic priest Brother Piet Lindner, friend of AWR, passed away.
Date of source: Thursday, March 25, 2004
The US Copts Association published a press release on March 25, 2004 with the title “Coptic Pope Denounces Forced Conversion of Coptic Girls.” It is obvious that the the US Copts Association has not made much of an effort, if any, to check the rumors. Instead the have blown this out of proportions.
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
Mr. De Coursac is a French national living in Egypt who strongly objects to US foreign policy in the Middle East. He expressed this objection in an irrational manner and this has made him to misinterpret events and explain them as a US conspiracy without realizing that in that way he has alienated...