Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
Abdel-Malak Asaad invites us to look at the events of Al-Kusheh as a dangerous indicator that feeds sectarianism. Before this he explains the difficulty he finds in explaining that he cannot side with the church as is expected from him, for he considers that Copts are spiritually related to the...
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The lecture "On National Unity", organized by the cultural committee and attended by an elite [of writers and thinkers] witnessed what could be described as a consensus on the necessity of strengthening democracy and providing a democratic political atmosphere, among the solutions presented in...
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
Since the Kosheh incidents, many institutions have started to use the Coptic issue in order to fulfill their dubious plans. A paper claims that the Copts in lower Egypt are subject to genocide. This paper was sent to 60 investment company that have good investments in Egypt in addition to 22...
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
The only practical and correct step as a whole is the conciliation committees that were constituted of wise man from the East Nile Region. This region has remained for centuries ruled by special considerations and forgotten by the capital city. Al-Usboa met Mounir Fakhri Abdel-Nour, one of the...
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
This article came as a defense of Bishop Wissa and a criticism of the editor-in-chief of Al-Usboa Newspaper. The reader, Seif Elia, accused him of siding in issue 153 of the newspaper against Copts and Bishop Wissa. The reader challenged the newspaper to publish his defense. He said that truth...
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
The reader Nada Samah Shafan explains her being deceived by the way Mustafa Bakri reported the events of Kosheh. She asks him to have the courage to meet Priest Wissa and listen to him and she criticizes him for accusing Priest Wissa of treachery. Shafan explained that it was normal for Bishop...
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
The Al-Kosheh case was due to internal and external conspiracy. This is what all Egyptians could say. No one could believe that hatred lived between the two parties of this country. In order to confirm this reality, the truth has to be declared in front of the Egyptian nation and the people who...
Date of source: Sunday, January 30, 2000
Talking about the Coptic situation in Egypt has become a means of pressure, especially after the latest events in Al-Kosheh. On 24 January, emigrant Copts published a letter that was addressed to the Prime Minister Dr. Atef Ebeid. In this letter they accused the country of encouraging communal...
Date of source: Sunday, January 30, 2000
Besides the high death toll, sabotage and looting characterized the latest events of Al-Kosheh. The victims of the incidents of Al-Kosheh told Watani how they lost their sources of income as their shops were looted and their properties were destroyed.
Date of source: Sunday, January 30, 2000
A summary of various newspaper reports on Al-Kosheh, accusing some newspapers of further fomenting communal strife by their biased and inaccurate reporting of the incidents, with 8 points put forward to prevent the repetition of such incidents again.