Date of source: Wednesday, January 29, 2020
The Revolutionary Socialists movement, the opposition in Egypt, rejected the Supreme Administrative Court’s decision to ban female faculty members at Cairo University from wearing the niqāb, emphasizing that this rule is an attempt to establish the state control over the body and is the latest...
Date of source: Thursday, November 21, 2019
The students of the Learning Center at the Citadel of Qaitbay. Photo by Cornelis Hulsman
Sun, sea and blue sky
When the students of the Learning Center of the Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU) arrived in Alexandria on the morning of Friday, November 8, they could not but being...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 3, 2019
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth has unveiled an “unprecedented report” from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which expresses concerns regarding allegations of anti-Semitism in Palestinian school curriculum across a number of subjects and requests that the content...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 23, 2019
The World Book Day is celebrated on April 23 every year in order to promote for reading and strengthen the cultural aspects of the book. Recognized by the UNESCO, this celebration is an opportunity to examine and review the proper methods of disseminating culture and making it available to all.
Date of source: Monday, April 22, 2019
Miṣr University for Science and Technology (MUST) organized an extensive digital media training programme in Malaysia in cooperation with Limkokwing University of Creative Technology in Kuala Lumpur .
Date of source: Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Dr. Muḥammad ʿUthmān Al Khasht, President of Cairo University, inaugurated the 25th International Scientific Conference organized by the University’s Faculty of Information under the title "Media Industry in the Light of Opportunities and Technological and Investment Challenges". The event was...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 17, 2019
The seventh session of the Alexandria Media Forum will be held on Thursday under the title "Media Education and Sustainable Development" in partnership with the American University in Cairo, represented by Kamāl Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism at the Faculty of International...
Date of source: Thursday, March 14, 2019
Preface by Cornelis Hulsman: In 1997 I started making press overviews on issues related to Muslim-Christian relations and founded the Religious News Service from the Arab World which later was renamed Arab-West Report. Between June 13, 1997 and July 11, 1998 I collected articles from al-Muslimoon...
Date of source: Thursday, November 22, 2012
Several local residents of the city of Timā, Suhāj governorate, surrounded the al-Zahrā’ elementary school to protest alleged attempts by a Coptic teacher to disseminate ideas against the Muslim faith into the minds of their children as he advised them to quit praying.
Date of source: Thursday, November 1, 2012
Minister of Education Ibrāhīm Ghunaym said the syllabi, designed by specialized research centers in association with the civil society organizations, are as sacred as constitutions, noting those syllabi have never been and will never be drawn up by any political party.