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Reinout Vos first introduces himself and tells Hulsman how he began his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and how he came to Egypt. Vos said that he studied history at Utrecht University, specializing in the history of Malaysia and Indonesia. After completing his Master’s degree,...
Date of source: Sunday, August 26, 2012
Engineer ‘Isām ‘Abd al-Mājid, member of al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyah Shūrá Council, revealed the readiness of dozens of Jihadis to travel to Syria within days to join the rebels in overthrowing the regime of Syrian President Bashār Al-Assad (Shirīf al-Dawākhlī, al-Misrī al-Yawm, August 26, p. 3). Read...
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Maria van der Hoeven is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party. She served as Minister of Economic Affairs from 2007-2011.
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The Dutch Minister Maria van der Hoeven is in Cairo on a visit the Dutch-Flemish institute. The first topic discussed was...
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The Khan Murjan is a building located in the souq of Baghdad, Iraq. It was built in the 14th century as a caravanserai and it is considered by many historians and scholars to be a notable piece of the city’s architecture. The structure was in poor shape for over two centuries, but was...
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The Babel international festival is an annual festival held at the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon. The Babel International festival started in 1985. There was no Babel festival in 2003 due the unstable security situation in Iraq. However, the festival resumed in the following...
Date of source: Thursday, March 22, 2012
Meanwhile, General Dāhī Khalfān, the Dubai Police Chief, severely criticized Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood group in the aftermath of a crisis that erupted over statements by Egyptian preacher Yūsuf al-Qaradāwī, the secretary-general of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), which the...
Date of source: Sunday, March 18, 2012
“Non-Muslims are free to their own faiths and we have to offer them amity and peace if they do not fight us,” said ‘Awwā during a rally next to the al-Fayoum cultural center on Friday (March 16), adding only true believers (Muslims) will apply the Islamic sharī’ah and be fair between Muslims and...
Date of source: Sunday, February 26, 2012
The conferees appealed to the youths who played a key role in the liberation movements and expressed the current stage to be armed with the spirit of faith inherited from the forefathers and to preserve freedom, human dignity and continually work on bringing peace in the east.
This came in the...
Date of source: Sunday, September 9, 2018
Interview Script (Documentation)
Interviewer (s): Drs. Cornelis Hulsman and Ms Comfort Dickson
Interviewee: Tunisian humanitarian activist
Interview setting: A private residence in Maadi, Cairo. The interview was conducted between 9.00 am and 1.00 pm on Tuesday morning July 17, 2018.
The interview...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Dr. Kamīl Sādiq, Secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Milī (Lay) Council in Alexandria, warned that Egypt is heading towards a similar situation seen in Lebanon in the seventies, with the ignition of sectarian strife between Muslims and Copts moving towards civil war. He accused the present Muslim...