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Discontent among residents of Shaykh Zāyid district in 6 October City after spreading Shī'ah book to spread shi'ism off a number of mosques. Residents were surprised to find some people spreading brochures that spread shī'ah ideologies and praying the azān (call to prayer) in the shī'ah way. There...
At an open fast-breaking meal outside the sit-in protest for ‘Umar ‘Abd al-Rahmān at the US Embassy, Hassan Khalīfah shed tears of joy as he concluded his ten minute speech. In the picture: Hassan Khalīfah ‘I apologize for going long, but forgive me, it has been nineteen years that I have been in...
What is written about Christian citizens in Egypt is not subject in any case to the logic of journalistic treatment as it is subject in many cases to the logic of intimidation and exaggeration or underestimation and stultification.
This paper expands upon earlier work published in Arab-West Report by Dutch Arabists Eildert Mulder and Thomas Milo on the contested earliest sources of Islam.1 Mulder and Milo illustrate that critical scholarship has cast doubt on the historic
The fatwá is commonly known in the West as a death sentence. Among Muslims, the fatwá can be among the most powerful tools of Islamic populism. On a third front, the fatwá is simply a bureaucratic function. Which definition encompasses reality?  
Presidential candidate Ahmad Shafīq, former prime minister, lashed out at his rival Muhammad Mursī, candidate of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) at a a press conference. Shafīq said that he would save Egypt from chaos and religious ideologies, upholding the civil character of the state based on...
The Supreme Presidential Elections Commission (SPEC) has completed the allocation of 14,000 judges in preparation for the presidential elections scheduled for the 23th and 24th of May. The commission's head Fārūq Sultān stated that the military and police forces will secure polling stations. He...
 [AWR: this interview was recorded, transcribed and translated by Diana Maher Ghali]
Which images and stories are to be trusted? Copts and Muslims being united in Tahrīr Square in January and February 2011? Coptic Orthodox Priest Father Yu’annis and Salafī Shaykh Hamdī cooperating in the Upper Egyptian village of Qufādah or those of October 9, 2011, with raging armored vehicles,...
Seeking to keep the case of their father in front of the public eye, the family of the Blind Shaykh, ‘Umar ‘Abd al-Rahmān, organized another conference at the site of their open sit-in across from the American Embassy.  

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