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The recordings with Turkish Ambassador Yassir Yatis (whose post has been moved from Egypt to Austria) provide an overview of Turkish relations with countries in the region including Turkish-Israeli relations in light of a recent military deal and a Turkish military operation in Iraq....
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Muḥammad Maʾmūn al-Huḍaybī (28.5.1921 – 8.1.2004) was the official spokesman and secretary of the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). He was also shortly the Sixth General Guide of the MB from 2002 up to his death in 2004. Al-Huḍaybī speaks of the 1995 parliamentary elections...
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Shiḥāta Hārūn (1920–16.3.2001), one of the founding members of Ḥizb al-Tajammuʿ (National Progressive Unionist Party) and former lawyer is an Egyptian Jew. He was also among the many Egyptians arrested in 1967. His Jewish identity is intertwined with Egypt’s history and he never left...
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The recordings with Turkish Ambassador Yassir Yatis provide an overview of Turkish relations with countries in the region. The main topic of his speech and of his answers to journalists’ questions concern Turkey’s relations with the states of Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Greece.
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Two different subjects are addressed in the following recording: the restoration of the Hanging Church in Old Cairo, Egypt, and the Jordanian economist ʾUmayyah Ṭūqān’s views on the MENA summit in 1995.
Saint Virgin Mary’s Coptic Orthodox Church, known as the Hanging Church was built...
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Interviewer: Quinta Smit
Language of interview: English (original interview), English (presented transcript)
Transcript: Quinta Smit
Approval: Approved by interviewee
The interview was conducted with a member of the Waṭan Party, just after he had left politics. He was never involved in politics...
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Two different subjects are addressed in the following recording, these are; Tourism development in Jordan; and development of water supply in Jordan, however, both press conferences are in the context of the then newly signed peace treaty with Israel and its political and economic...
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Young Sudanese graduates from the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary (ATBS) in Lebanon, which educates its students in Christian worshipping and missionary work are interviewed. They want to serve their own churches back in Sudan as missionaries and talk about their path to Christianity...
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This is a press conference in the running – up to the third MENA conference in Cairo and the panel consists of Mr. Blood from the World Economic Forum, Farīd Munīr of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Dr. Peter Goepfrich, -Executive Director of the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce....
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Interviewers: Cornelis Hulsman, Eline Kasanwidjojo and Quinta Smit
Language of interview: English/Arabic (original interview); English (presented transcript)
Interpreter: ʿUmār al- ʿAid
Transcript: Quinta Smit
Approval: Approved by interviewee
Dr. ʿAbd al-Munʿim Abū al-Futūḥ gives account to his...