Date of source: Saturday, November 21, 1998
Daniel Kurtzer, US Ambassador to Cairo, said relations between Egypt and the USA
are excellent, and President Clinton cares about discussing the latest development in the region with President Hosni Mubarak. He said he himself assured that what happened in Al-Koshh has nothing to do with...
Date of source: Saturday, November 21, 1998
An interview with Gamal Asa’ad on the role of Pope Shenouda and persecution.
Date of source: Friday, November 20, 1998
The author is afraid that the urge to protect Coptic rights and justice could provoke people against them.
Date of source: Friday, November 20, 1998
The media frenzy caused by the events of Al-Koshh and the exaggerated reactions is a matter which invites us to wonder. Why were all these attempts made to assure a fact!! The Copts enjoy full citizenship and do not face any sort of persecution. Such horror over this issue does not deny there is a...
Date of source: Thursday, November 19, 1998
This article discusses the several faxes Lord David Alton of Liverpool wrote to Sohag’s governor Ahmad Abd Al-Aziz Bakr concerning the issue of al-Koshh.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 17, 1998
Egyptian human rights organizations are used to being attacked by government and its allied journalists once a year at one particular time. That is when the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council holds its meeting to discuss reports prepared by their branches all...
Date of source: Thursday, November 12, 1998
Hafez Abou Se’da, secretary general of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), admits accepting foreign funds and aid. But the charter of the organization states certain conditions for accepting funds, Se’da adds. In fact, the government itself
forced them to take foreign funds, since it...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 17, 1998
The conspiring motives of the Sunday Telegraph’s campaign against Egypt are being revealed day after day. The British-American-Zionist attempts to trigger a ’Coptic Issue’ in Egypt, referring to Copts as a persecuted minority, is a way to implement the religious persecution law recently approved by...
Date of source: Thursday, November 12, 1998
There is an unhealthy climate, which allowed some people to change a crime of murder into sectarian issue.
Date of source: Thursday, November 12, 1998
Upon Mubarak becoming president, new era of good relations began with Pope Shenouda.