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Al-Shurūq al-Jadīdah reports on appointing ‘Abd al-Hādī al-Qasabī Shaykh of Sūfism and ‘Abd Allāh al-Husaynī president of the Azhar University.
Marina Ihab reviews Watani International colleague Nadir Shukry’s book about reconciliation sessions. In his book, Shukry documents 19 sectarian cases which have undergone traditional reconciliation sessions that resulted in the culprits being freed while the victims never receive justice.
Al-Shurūq Al-Jadīd interviews Shaykh Yūsuf al-Qaradāwī and asks him about the issues of the Muslim Brotherhood, Gaza and the Egyptian ruling system.
Based on the lectures given at the Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute symposium on de-radicalization and dis-engagement in December 2009 one of the CIDT interns, Vivien Molinengo wrote this paper on societal collapse and radicalization. He argues that the notion of societal collapse was a leitmotif...
Watani International comments on its most recent book, ’ Sadat in the memory of Copts: Days of pain and triumph.’ The book was written by Robeir al-Faris. The book is divided into eight chapters and looks at the development of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt as well as the Nāsir years before...
This brief paper was written as part of the academic writing skills seminar that was heldat the CIDT office in April 2009. The paper focuses on the first draft of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political platform.
Tariq Heggy discusses the rise of Wahhābism and the encroachment of extremist understanding of Islam upon moderate Islam.
Sara Hassan goes undercover in the woman’s circle of Regent’s Park Mosque in London and discovers some shockingly extremist and Saudi ideology advocating killing homosexuals, adulterers, and apostolics, and separation from mainstream society, particularly for women. This is even more shocking...
Sāmih Fawzī discusses Egypt’s emigration problem, the need for greater transparency and Coptic expatriates. He also calls on Christians to be active players in Egyptian society andbelieves that in the modern age socio-economic factors are more of a uniting force than religion.
This article critiques the hold that religious institutions have over Egyptians and argues that they are an obstacle to the creation of a cohesive Egyptian identity.

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