Date of source: Saturday, December 31, 2005
Jennifer Drago, an American Christian volunteer with the Mennonite Central Committee, is living with her family in the Upper Egyptian provincial town Banī Suwayf (Beni Suef), and reflects on her experiences at a beach camp with Coptic orphan girls. Her article shows that the mentality of Egyptian...
Date of source: Saturday, February 15, 2003
The article in Aqidati of January 28 seems to be intended to wipe up sentiments against Jews and Israel. There are plenty good reasons to criticize Israeli brutal policy towards the Palestinians but this article doesn´t do this but focuses on an aleged report to destroy Mecca and the Ka´ba and thus...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 20, 2005
A critique of the controversial work of researcher Yustina Saleh on the 2nd article of the Egyptian constitution, which states that sharī‘a is the main source of law.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper.
Ayad Mossad, chairman Stichting Arab-West Understanding, visited AWR to help and discuss the request for NGO status.
Date of source: Friday, September 10, 2004
This lecture forms the background to Lord Carey’s lecture in July in Cairo. Lord Carey explained his purpose of seeking to build bridges of understanding between Islam and Christianity. “Compassion and understanding are the only tools to handle hatred and violence.” For understanding also critical...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 5, 2003
Hossam Gawdat is a new AWR board member. He has been translating some articles for AWR and provided a comment on a MEMRI report on radical anti-Jewish and anti-Christian preaching of a sheikh in Gaza. He is qualified to comment on radical preachers since he was once closely associated to the Gama’...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 9, 2005
We are facing a current phenomenon about the appearance of religious parties clad in political attire during a fragile time of political reform
Date of source: Saturday, October 28, 2000
On October 25, the Jerusalem Post published an article about hundreds of Palestinian Christians fleeing the Palestinian territories. An Israeli spokesman referred in this regard to a radical sermon of Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabiya. This article, like the sermon of the Palestinian preacher,...
Date of source: Thursday, October 26, 2000
Dr. Bayoumi says Dr. Abu Halabiya should have distinguished between Judaism and Christianity as a religion, which Islam does not oppose, and Jews attacking Muslims. Muslims, he says, should defend themselves against such attacks.
Date of source: Thursday, October 26, 2000
The RNSAW asked Ambassador Mohammed Zubeir, Palestinian Ambassador in Cairo, for a response on the radical sermon of Dr. Ahmed Abu Halabiya as published in the RNSAW, week 42A, art. 8. He rejects the statements made by Abu Halabiya and says he does not represent the Palestinian Authority or public.