Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
Some are inquiring about the probability of the main market in Al-Kosheh regaining its position as the jewel of trade on the Eastern line of Upper Egypt after the specification of the new shops free for the kiosks owners. The government is taking the necessary measures to repair the damage done.
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2000 to Friday, February 25, 2000
What is to come after the disaster of Al-Kosheh?! Every Egyptian is asking this question. Will the government’s procedures [successfully] cure the nation’s body of the virus of sectarianism?
Date of source: Thursday, February 17, 2000
Counselor Maher Abdel-Wahed, the Public Prosecutor, emphasized that no one proved guilty in Al-Kosheh’s incidents would escape trial under any circumstances. He pointed out that investigations over Al-Kosheh’s incidents have not yet ended but they are on the right track. He added that the results...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 16, 2000
Sub-title: Local senior officials are powerless... the government-owned media foment tension
The Egyptian Organization for Human rights issued a report about the results the organization’s fact-finding mission reached concerning the latest incidents of Al-Kosheh in [the region of] Sohag. At the...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 15, 2000
The full, published text of the EOHR’s Special Report on the Al-Kosheh incident.
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
Everybody, Muslims and Copts are meeting in a workshop prepared by the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development for the preparatory and secondary stage students in Faayed. They come from everywhere in Egypt to study the suggested topics for the educational curricula for the preparatory and secondary...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
In the article of Mr. Said Abdel-Khaleq in Al-Wafd dated January 19, 2000, reporting on an interview with him Father Makarious Youssef found some statements attributed to him, which he says he did not make. He responds in this article.
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
Egypt will receive this week His Holiness Pope John Paul II. Catholics number 300 thousand citizens in Egypt. In spite of their different denominations, not one of them came out to claim that there is persecution in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 22, 2000
Cornelis Hulsman met with both Hanaan Al-Badry and members of the Coptic Union in Washington in June 1999 and believes that the polarization between the two is reflected in the article Al-Badry wrote which in turn may have a reflection on Muslim readers of Rose el-Youssef.
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2000 to Friday, February 25, 2000
The Coptic Union that represents a group of fanatic emigrant Copts in America failed to perform a march in front of the American Foreign Ministry. In the light of the faxes and the letters before the march, everything that was done was expected. However, it was not expected that they would seek...