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It was a great generosity from Arab West report, and my friend Cornelis Hulsman, the editor in chief, to introduce me to make this interview with Prof. Schleifer, who has a life-long unique intercultural engagement with an amazing experience and a very successful career. This interview was recorded...
With Turkey’s recent attempts to restore relations with Egypt, sources for al-ʿArabiyya say that Cairo has stipulated that Ankara acknowledge the June 30th Revolution, which Ankara has agreed to do.
It has been reported that on Monday morning that the Egyptian authorities executed 8 prisoners who had been sentenced under military case no. 165 for 2017 in Alexandria governorate. They had been charged with carrying out ‘church bombings’ also known as ‘the twin Palm Sunday bombings’ that targeted...
On Friday evening, protests calling for the downfall of the regime broke out in several Egyptian cities and continued until early Saturday morning.  However, most of the Egyptian media didn’t mention them.  Their coverage came in different forms: ignoring the protests, reporting inaccurately that...
 Sheikh Muhammad al-Bastawīsī, head of the Imams, accused Muhammad ‘Abd al-Rāziq, the official spokesman of the Egyptian Religious Endowment, of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood. al-Bastawīsī said in an interview with “Misr al-‘Arabiyya” that belonging to the Brotherhood has almost become a...
Thousands of young people from Western countries have gone to Syria during recent years to fight under the black flag of what Prof. Schleifer calls “the most brutal and threateningly successful jihadist group, calling itself the Islamic State.” The British Tony Blair Foundation recently published a...
Following publication of a report detailing video evidence from the October 9, 2011 attack on a mostly Coptic demonstration at Maspero, a few people have sent in additional evidence. This appendix report updates the original text. Officer Fires on Protestors – Maspero (30 seconds)
One must be cautious when writing about religious leaders, as they have mastered the art of speaking to an audience. Humans have a penchant for self-deception and self-justification; when mixed with religious language manipulation is easily manufactured, even if unintentionally advanced. People who...
The author laments the role that parliament and the media played in increasing sectarian violence by ignoring the bill for a unified law for building places of worship during its last session.
Muhammad al-Bāz criticizes well-known satellite Islamic preachers for concerning themselves with satisfying their sexual desires through their frequent marriages, despite calling on people to adopt an ascetic standard of living.

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