Date of source: Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Ākhir Sā‘ah presents a study entitled “Egypt’s path to
self-acceptance: Sectarian
tension and the vices of education” which tackles the relation between Muslims
and Copts in Egypt. The study warns
against intrigues that aim at fueling sectarianism in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 30, 2006
The author writes about a conference
he attended in
Indonesia that has considered ways for Arab Muslim countries to benefit from the experiments of non
-Arab
Muslim countries and which discussed whether Islamic discourse could be reformed without taking the Arab
environment into account.
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2006
An article covering a seminar which took place at the Cairo
Center for
Human Rights on problems facing Copts in Egypt in which a number of famous Egyptian intellectuals
participated.
Date of source: Thursday, January 5, 2006
Abu Zayd, the Egyptian intellectual who was declared an apostate, claims that Egyptian universities are intellectually stagnant and that modern ways of thought must be introduced.
Date of source: Sunday, June 12, 2005
Bahīy al-Dīn Hasan, the Director of the Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies comments on the annual report that was released by the National Council for Human Right which has mentioned that Egypt was used as the CIA’s Mecca to torture prisoners and extort information before sending them either to...
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid participated in the anti-racism conference Cairo Center for Human Rights held in Egypt. He talked about Islamophobia, Europe’s perception of Islam, globalization and Huntington’s theories about the clash between civilizations.
Date of source: Friday, July 7, 2000
The culture seminar that was held on Wednesday evening, in the Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies, under the title "An Islamic party and the freedom of thought and expression", witnessed a heated debate among the participants concerning the possibility of establishing an Islamic party and a...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 2, 2000
The Ibn Roshd group has held a seminar about the defense of ijtihad [the freedom of interpretation in Islam] in the Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies, just hours before the tribunal verdict in an Hesba case which was filed by Sheikh Youssef Al-Badri, against the book "Father Adam" written by...