Date of source: Wednesday, October 30, 2002
Our new boardmember Dr. Wolfram Reiss responded to the summary of an article of Rose el-Youssef (RNSAW, 2002, week 39A, art. 6) and wondered whether the Iqbal el-Saba´i, the author of the article had correctly presented the views of bishop Mounir, head of the Episcopal Church in Egypt, and sheikh...
Date of source: Saturday, September 28, 2002 to Friday, October 4, 2002
[The RNSAW presented a summary of this text in week 39A. This is a full translation]
Date of source: Tuesday, March 5, 2002
The Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services organized a seminar on whether the role of religion changed because of globalization. Islamic thinker Selim Al-Awa assured that religion has a role to play at all times. The Jesuit father Henry Boulad said that modernism is a challenge to...
Date of source: Sunday, February 17, 2002
[The name Showman is a translitteration from the Arabic. It could also be Schoemann]
Date of source: Friday, February 25, 2005
Muhammad Sakrān, an education professor at al-Fayyoum University, advocates a new educational establishment for young Copts and Muslims, saying, “Regardless of their beliefs, degrees or ages, all have to be able to study freely the inheritance of Islamic, Christian and Arab culture, the nation’s...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
The article discusses the need for changes in the Arab educational curricula. It calls for focusing on this objective and considers Western interference in this respect just a stone thrown into stagnant water.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Interfaith dialogues should be to help the people better understand other people’s religions. They should not be established to discuss dogmatic beliefs.
Date of source: Sunday, January 22, 2006
The author examines the factors leading to the sectarian tensions in Alexandria in October 2005, and argues that the Syndicate of Journalists should ensure that the press does not violate the code of journalistic ethics.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Dr. Bibāwī argues that Egyptian textbooks, across all educational stages from primary to undergraduate, have deliberately ignored Coptic history from 58 CE to 640 CE.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 17, 2006
A copy of the Group for Democratic Development and Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-Violence Studies’ report on the Alexandria sectarian riots in October 2005.