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Following a Facebook post, published by a group called ‘Anā Min al-Ḍāhir’ (I am from the district al- Ḍāhir), announced that an agreement was met with the Jewish community in Egypt to tour 3 Jewish synagogues in Cairo and visit the premises from the inside. 
The Holy Family came to Egypt, says the Biblical text. But it is silent on what they did once there. Coptic Orthodox tradition has filled in the details. And now, as Arab West Report discovered on a visit led by Cornelis Hulsman on January 16, 2016, they have one detail more.
Father van Nispen is a Jesuit priest, who is strongly involved in relationships with Islam. In the beginning of his priesthood he chose 'The service of reconciliation' to be his motto. In an interview with Egyptian Al-Ahram Weekly on December 31, 1998, he clarified: "My interpretation of the term...
Ayman Muḥammad Rabīʿ al-Ẓawāhirī is a Muslim who claims that he is committed to bring the golden age of the caliphate back, and advocates a violent means of jihād to achieve his objectives. His own native country Egypt, along with many other countries, considers him a terrorist. During the 1990s,...
Wolfram Reiss introduced me per email to Cornelis Hulsman, who sent me, prior to my visit to Egypt, some important articles. He gave me much time to respond to all my questions. I first showed him my temporary table of content. We started talking about the flight of the Holy Family to Egypt. He...
We are grateful for the blog space Egypt Today is providing Arab-West Report, an electronic magazine and database founded in 1997 to foster understanding between people of different cultures and convictions. We believe in pluralism, which means that we have to accept that people, both individuals...
Cairo, Egypt: On April 18 and 19, a two-day training session was conducted for the project: A project with and about women in Egypt, post 25 January Revolution[1]. The training took place in the office of Center for Arab-West Understanding, located in Maadi, and the aim was to develop the skills...
The relationship between expatriates living in Egypt and Ramadan can be a love-hate relationship. Some might argue that Ramadan is the ‘most unproductive month of the year’. People work less hours and businesses can get a bit slow. On the other hand, however, very few can deny the level of...
Date of meeting: January 14, 2014 Participants: Kees Hulsman, Mohamed Khayyal, Jenna Ferrecchia, Christiane Paulus, Hala Fahmy, Adel Rizkallah, Yosra El Gendi, Esther Schoorel, Mette Toft Nielsen
On May 20, 2014, the Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU) organized a forum meeting under the title: Investigative Journalism in Egypt: Experiences and Challenges. Key speaker of the evening, Danish award winning journalist Mr. Flemming Weiss Andersen, spoke about his experiences in reporting...

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