Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2005
President Husnī Mubārak responded to this call by amending the article 76 of the constitution to allow for multi-candidate presidential elections. However, in order to proceed with the elections in an incorrupt fashion, the Egyptian press must regain its freedom, which it had lost ever since the...
Date of source: Monday, March 21, 2005
In accordance with the Euro-American vision, the Arab regimes now enjoy strong relations with the United States and Europe, are no longer fit to go on. The political purposes go beyond an alliance to reach absolute satellite status. These Western objectives need some kind of a flagrant intervention...
Date of source: Monday, March 7, 2005
A line has to be drawn between the issue of church reform and the Coptic file with all social, cultural and political problems that involves.
Date of source: Monday, February 28, 2005
Judge Tāriq al-Bishrī wrote a number of articles on the issue of Coptic-Muslim relations in different newspapers and magazines including: al-Usbouc, Afāq ‘Arabīya and Al-Ahrām al-‘Arabī. In my article, I will comment on some points that Judge al-Bishrī raised previously.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 23, 2005
The religious discourse needs to be rejuvenated to regain its social and institutional rank and to disprove claims of the West that the prevailing discourse promotes terrorism. The reason that religious discourse is lagging is the lack of Islamic heralds and their concentration on minorities, which...
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2005
Michael Munīr, who was born in al-Minyā in 1968, emigrated to the US in 1990, chooses his words carefully and loves exaggerative statements. His statements give the impression that Egypt is ruled by a gang that slaughters, kidnaps, and steals from Copts. His statements also imply that Egypt needs...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2005
It is terrible how the Bar Association has become a battlefield for sectarian strife between Coptic and Muslim lawyers.
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2005
The intensity of the conflict between Sāmih and Rajā’ī over the Bar Association’s chairmanship increased after Mājid Hannā, the Church candidate decided to withdraw from the elections. He withdrew even though there were a lot of pledges for his success especially from the Church and from his Coptic...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2005
A symposium organized by Watanī newspaper, at the Qinā governorate city of Najc Hammādī, called for the reinforcement to the core of citizenship by encouraging co-existence, creation of common shared activities that would serve to bring together all Egyptians and requiring youth to practice their...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
We affirmed many times that the Church wants to play a political role that will be at odds with the essence of Christianity. Politics is known for its fluctuating stances that are different from religious values and principles. Moreover, the Egyptian law, thanks to Allāh, does not offer the Church...