Date of source: Friday, December 4, 2015
Winners of seats in parliament include minority populations that achieved great success compared to previous elections, including Coptic Christians, who won a total of 36 seats representing 6 percent of parliament.
Date of source: Sunday, December 20, 2015
Al-Jazeera prominent journalist Ahmad Mansūr criticized the written statement of British Prime Minister David Cameron in which he described the Muslim Brotherhood “as possible indicator of extremism”.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 31, 2015
U.S. President Barack Obama reported that he decided to lift the freeze banning the delivery of military aid to Egypt, including the sale of F-16 fighter jets. The freeze originally took effect in October 2013 following the military coup that took place in Egypt in the summer of 2013.
(31 March,...
Date of source: Saturday, December 12, 2015
Keith Black, teacher of physics and mathematics, most recently at the Maadi Community School in Maadi, Cairo, presented with his wife Morag two films of Nicky Gumbel on the Holy Spirit. Prof. Mahmoud Khayyal, Cornelis Hulsman and some interns were attending.
Date of source: Monday, September 21, 2015
The Chinese community in Cairo has been continuously growing over the past years, as Chinese and the Egyptian political and economic relations are becoming steadily more intertwined. Last Friday, September 18, the Egyptian-Chinese Friendship Association and the Egyptian Friendship Organisation...
Date of source: Thursday, February 19, 2015
American President: Muslims in Egypt have protected churches with their lives
During a speech at a conference in Washington DC on combatting extremism, US President Barack Obama said, "we cannot let extremist [takfīrī] organizations destroy our societies." He asked nations to call for understanding...
Date of source: Sunday, November 24, 2013
Egypt is not (insert country here). Egypt’s troubles, however defined, are often compared to other nations, but always with a caveat noting Egyptian peculiarities. But considering ‘the troubles’, as the thirty-plus years of sectarian conflict are known in Belfast, Egypt would do well to consider...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 28, 2013
On April 25, 2013, Jihad Watch contributor Raymond Ibrahim (Ibrāhīm) published in Middle East Forum what he titled “Death to Churches Under Islam; A Study of the Coptic Church.”
His text is a collection of frequently returning claims without proper sourcing, falsely pretending statements of some...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 3, 2013
On March 28, 2013 Fox News broadcast an incendiary video report entitled, ‘US Silent as Christians are Persecuted in Egypt?’ It is understood that media relies on a level of sensationalism in order to attract the viewer or reader to a story. Yet this report moves beyond sensationalism to distortion...
Date of source: Sunday, February 3, 2013
Relation religion and democracy
In this presentation I would like to outline that the basis for a democracy is in the first place the recognition of the equality and dignity of man and therefore the freedom of religion. And that subsequently a democratic system is based on that, characterised by...