Date of source: Saturday, May 30, 2015
A Dutch tourist residing in the city of Hurghada declared that he had converted to Islam and changed his name to Sīsī in reference to Egyptian President ‘Abd al-Fatah al- Sīsī. The tourist says the President led him to Islam despite him lacking religious affiliation before. The tourist held a...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Security personnel arrested Isma`ĭl Iskandarānī, a journalist and human rights activist, at Hurghāda airport late Sunday, security sources told Al-Masrī Al-Yawm.
Date of source: Sunday, July 22, 2012
[Editor: Susan is a former full-time editor of Arab-West Report who has lived since February 2009 in Hurghada]
Many sectors throughout Egypt suffered greatly as a result of the 2011 Revolution. Perhaps the hardest hit however, was the tourism industry. Beach towns that were in former years...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Al-Yawm al-Sābi‘ runs a report on page 20, in which it claims to have had access to the dossier of the Samallūt train shootings, including the texts of letters exchanged between psychiatrists and police medical authorities.
These revealed that the accused, ‘Āmir ‘Āshūr, had first been examined...
Date of source: Monday, April 16, 2007
Evangelicals and Catholics will not attend
the Middle East Council of Churches conference until Bishop Bīshūy apologizes for the statements he announced about
their destiny in the afterlife.
Date of source:
The Abū al-Matāmīr tensions triggered a full-page article in Sawt al-Ummah newspaper claiming that Israel wants to declare a Coptic state in Upper Egypt or Hurghada. Other discussions followed the tensions, some of them very emotional.
Date of source: Saturday, October 19, 2002
In an attempt to control the money of the Bar Association, members of
the association, who belongs to the Brotherhood, appointed a new treasurer against the will of the association?s
president ? which led to many problems in the association.
Date of source: Sunday, November 19, 2006
Text of lecture about a declining Christianity in the Middle East. Dalrymple compares between his travels in the mid nineties to when he collected material for his book ‘From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East,’ and recently travelled to the areas he had visited...
Date of source: Sunday, September 10, 2006
The author argues that Egyptians are living in a “police state.”
Date of source: Thursday, May 25, 2006
Islam
respects all other divine religions, even at the time it is being attacked and offended. True Muslims are
those who
believe in other religions and messengers.