Date of source: Thursday, December 29, 2005
Discussions in Arab media on interpretation of the Islamic sharīa.Excellent interview with Pope Shenouda about sensitive topics.Dr. Hassan Wagīh about religious discourse and Western media taking verses of the Holy Qur’ān out of context.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 23, 2004
The purpose of this article is to show Western readers to be careful with Christian persecution stories from Egypt, they may be true but also may not be true. The great difficulty is that there are many rumors flying around that are mostly not investigated. Most examples of rumors for this article...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 17, 2002
The article recounts the story of the photograph taken by American researcher Paul Perry of the church of Saint Mark in Assiut, in August 2000. He took a photograph of the church at night after it closed its doors. It shows a very strong light over the church´s steeple. He sent the photograph...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 15, 2002
The Cairo Foreign Press Association organized a visit to Coptic Old Cairo with Prof. Dr. Peter Grossmann and asked Cornelis Hulsman to write a report for the FPA Bulletin in May 2002. Hulsman pointed out that visiting Old Cairo with a scholar is very different from visiting it with Coptic clergy.
Date of source: Monday, December 26, 2005
Al-Usbou‘, al-Ahrām al-‘Arabī and Rose al-Yousuf report on the reaction to the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, published few months ago by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 20, 2005
An investigation into an article published by CNN claiming that the father of September 11, 2001 bomber Muhammad ‘Atā praised terrorist attacks.
Date of source: Thursday, February 16, 2006
AWR participation in conferences and discussions on the Danish cartoons.
Articles and reports on the Danish cartoons.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 22, 2004
The Chechen revolution is a patriotic resistance movement and not an Islamic movement. It seems that the world became accustomed to describe any criminal act carried out by a group whose members are Muslims as ‘terrorism’. The world witnesses in every moment hundreds of crimes which are committed...
Date of source: Monday, March 29, 2004
Hassan Al-Hawari, a member on the board of the FPA and the treasurer, sent a response to an article published in issue no. 366 titled “The Foreign Press Association FPA is in trouble,” saying that Mr. De Coursac sent El-Usboa incorrect information. “The FPA will raise a judicial case against the...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
Mr. De Coursac is a French national living in Egypt who strongly objects to US foreign policy in the Middle East. He expressed this objection in an irrational manner and this has made him to misinterpret events and explain them as a US conspiracy without realizing that in that way he has alienated...