Summary:

Interreligious tensions in Egypt are, unfortunately, very often related to church construction. In response to this tension, two student interns, Christian Fastenrath and Corin Kazanjian, worked over one year on a paper titled "Important factors for church-building in Egypt" published by AWR 2008, Week 47, Article 5.

Following this project, the question naturally arose about the needed permits for mosque building. Damas Addeh and Sayida Fuad compiled a report on mosque building, a topic for which there were only very few publications available.

This report, therefore, needed many more interviews than the corresponding one on church construction. It is therefore regrettable that the second research team lacked time to visit mosques and speak with authorities responsible for these mosques about the process of mosque construction.  Yet, this project is another milestone for Arab-West Report since nowhere else exists such a large report on mosque building as this one presented now.