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Conversion in Egypt is a complicated and thorny issue.
Date of source: Monday, February 25, 2013
Al-Shaykh Hassan Al-Bannā was eager to make himself and the Muslim Brotherhood appear as if they were living on good terms with religious minorities in Egypt. The group tries to confirm that by recalling the attendance of Makram ‘Ubayd at the funeral of Hassan al-Bannā in 1949 to demonstrate the...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
This is a comment on an article with a similar title published on April 13 on a blog called “Salamamoussa. Reclaiming Egypt,” named after Salāmah Mūsá (1887-1958). He was a well-known journalist, writer, and advocate of secularism and Arab socialism who was born into a wealthy, land-owning Coptic...
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2012
Rānyā Khalīl Ibrāhīm, the heroine of yet another sectarian trouble sparked recently in Mīt Bashār village, Minyā al-Qamh town, al-Sharqia governorate, said that she was not kidnapped and that she left her father’s home with her own free will. [‘Ādil al-Shā’ir, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Feb. 19, p. 6]...
Date of source: Friday, February 11, 2011
Date of source: Sunday, August 23, 2009
This article sheds light on a celebration held in Zaqāzīq for the new Zaqāzīq and Minia al-Qamh’s bishop, Thymothous who was warmly applauded and who stressed the love, fraternity, and tolerance among Muslims and Copts.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Reviewer: Nuhayr ‘IsmatMājid ‘Atīyah gives a brief history of eminent Christian figures whose villages are named after them.
Date of source: Sunday, September 27, 2009
The author highlights Bishop Timotheus of al-Zaqāzīq and Minia al-Qamh’s comments about conflict and love in the human soul.
Date of source: Saturday, November 15, 2008
In recent years the tensions between Christians and Muslims in Egypt have increased. In many cases Christians have been victims of violence. Is there any chance that religions can live together peacefully in the land of Nile? This is the question that Cornelis Hulsman sought to answer in his paper...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 6, 2009
A number of articles about the different attitudes toward freedom of expression are featured in this issue. Hulsman also comments on articles that discuss Copts withdrawal from Egyptian society, the number of Copts in Egypt and efforts to change the names of places in Cairo from Western names to...