Date of source: Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Last year anthropologist Erica Canova explored the impact of honor and shame in Egyptian culture, you can find her full article here. Of course, there are large differences between a large city as Cairo and the countryside and between people of different levels of education and regions. The sad...
Date of source: Thursday, October 17, 2019
When an opportunity presented itself for a seventeen year old female refugee from South Sudan to flee, she took it. However, upon arriving to Cairo, she was imprisoned in a residential apartment for three months where she was repeatedly raped. After this horrifying experience, she discovered that...
Date of source: Thursday, July 18, 2019
Amīra, a 15 year old girl from Fayūm, experienced a terrifying nightmare that no one could have ever anticipated.
Date of source: Monday, January 6, 2014
When law abrogates, state prestige falls and security is unable to protect the homeland, attention is drawn to "customary reconciliation sessions", or so-called "subjugation sessions," as they say, to address sectarian problems that move from village to village, ..
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Liza van de Linde, a Dutch employee at a Christian owned day-care centre for disabled children in Maʿādī, discusses the living conditions of disabled children in Egypt. Van de Linde reports that there are around 2 million disabled people in Egypt, which includes the physically and...
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2011
The attack on the church in Alexandria this weekend marked a new deep trench in the deteriorating relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt. Shortly before this act of terror, Trouw gauged the atmosphere among Egyptian Christians and Muslims. See footnote 1 in the full text. This text is...
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2011
The Salafī demonstration and subsequent attacks on Coptic Orthodox churches in the poor Cairo suburb of Imbābah on Saturday reportedly began after claims that a Christian woman, 'Abīr, had converted to Islam for marital reasons and later ran 'Awwāy. Whatever the truth of these claims, the fact...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The number of mass murder crimes increased greatly in Egyptian society over the last three years. Some believe that depression resulting from the high cost of living leads some citizens to momentary madness, whereas others argue that the accessibility to weapons without regulations are the reason...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
CIDT’s Jayson Casper speaks to Sheikh Ahmad al-Sayih, a professor of Islamic doctrine at Al Azhar University who is originally from the governorate of Qena, about the attacks against Coptic Christians in Nag Hamadi.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Two AWR interns investigate the news coverage of a dispute that took place in al-Tayyibah village, Minia. They analyzed the press reports of the incident and then look at the reconciliation sessions that took place in the wake of the conflict.