Date of source: Wednesday, March 1, 2000
The messages exchanged between the Pope and President Mubarak signified the joint efforts being exercised for a just peace in the area. I perceived the Pope’s meeting with the Grand Imam as a closing of the historical memories of European wars [carried out] in the name of religion. The Pope is...
Date of source: Sunday, March 5, 2000
Gamal Asad, a Coptic ex-member of the Egyptian People’s Assembly, has recently heavily criticized the emigrant Copts as well as several Coptic leaders - in particular Bishop Wissa of Balyana and Dar Al-Salaam in the wake of the Al-Kosheh incidents. Here the author responds to the accusations made...
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
The difficult kind of trading with Copts is the insistence of some clergymen to perform the role of the political representative of Copts. That was clear in an interview with Bishop Wissa in Al-Ahram, Saturday, February 2, in which he insists that he is responsible for his Coptic children, which...
Date of source: Thursday, February 3, 2000
In this article which is a continuation of the interview reported in Al-Liwaa’ Al-Islami last week Milad Hanna argues that Egypt has a unique cultural identity which is the reason for the good relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt since the entry of Islam into Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, January 27, 2000
Dr. Milad Hanna says in this interview: "... No minority managed to survive against the will of the majority. If a majority would have sought to end the existence of the minority, nothing would have stopped it. History, especially the Middle Ages [period], contains many examples of what I am...
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
After the incidents of Al-Kosheh, and in one of the Gulf satellite channels, Dr. Milad Hanna was back to that ugly tone that he started years ago, the tone through which he denied all his past developmental ideas and his patriotic enlightened history (or, for accuracy, his history that seemed...
Date of source: Thursday, February 3, 2000
In interviews from Cairo to the deep southern town of Kosheh, many Egyptians voiced mistrust and scorn for the other religion, while others said Egypt enjoyed religious harmony and that Kosheh was an isolated incident.
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
Hanna claims Egypt has the ability to accept and accommodate differences. It is a divine dichotomy which has become codified under the rhetoric of national unity. It reflects the close and amicable relation between Islam and Christianity and is a product of the cultural and historical...
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 1999
"The seven pillars of the Egyptian Identity" is the title of a book by Dr. Milad Hanna who says that the Egyptian identity is a mixture of seven pillars; four main pillars and three subsidiary ones. The four pillars are: the Pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic and Islamic. The three subsidiary pillars...
Date of source: Sunday, May 30, 1999
A review of a book by Milad Hanna calling for a culture of mutual acceptance and the emphasis on national identity over a sectarian religious identity, as well as some background information on Dr Milad Hanna himself.