Date of source: Tuesday, February 15, 2000
The full, published text of the EOHR’s Special Report on the Al-Kosheh incident.
Date of source: Sunday, February 13, 2000
The author argues that the non-implementation of the recommendations of the report by a special committee convened to look into the communal violence in Al-Khanka in 1972, the Al-Oteify report, led indirectly to the recent communal violence in Al-Kosheh, because the underlying issues were not...
Date of source: Sunday, February 13, 2000
The absence of the People’s Assembly from the scene of events in the latest Al-Kosheh incidents was conspicuous as if the Assembly did not exist or made itself to be so. We have not seen one single representative forwarding an inquiry or filing a notification request or posing an expedient question...
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
The difficult kind of trading with Copts is the insistence of some clergymen to perform the role of the political representative of Copts. That was clear in an interview with Bishop Wissa in Al-Ahram, Saturday, February 2, in which he insists that he is responsible for his Coptic children, which...
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
A year ago, during the general assembly of the radio and television union, Safwat Al-Sherif, Minister of Information announced the establishment of Al-Tanweer channel. A few months ago, the final form was admitted. In about a month, the experimental broadcasting of the channel will start. Religious...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 5, 2000
After the security forces acquired complete control, the conflict incidents in Al-Koshh village, Dar Al-Salam city and the nearby villages ceased. Life started going back to normal. Security authorities have started intense search campaigns to seize a number of runaway conflict instigators. ... In...
Date of source: Friday, December 31, 1999
Two controversial items in the draft of the new Personal Status Law are Al-Khul’a [a woman’s right to divorce her husband without explanation in exchange for renouncing all her marriage rights and returning the dowry he had given for her], and the right of a married Muslim woman to travel on her...
Date of source: Saturday, December 25, 1999
Pope Shenouda III invited several government and Muslim dignitaries amongst others to the National Unity Breakfast hosted by himself at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral this week. One of the guests, Dr. Sayyed Tantawi, Sheikh of Al-Azhar congratulated Muslims and Christians on the incidence of having...
Date of source: Friday, December 24, 1999
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The Israeli policy is aggressive and does not change. The people who carry out this policy are the only thing that changes
I reject normalization with Israel
I refused to participate in the Bethlehem 2000 Conference because I will not enter the Holy City while it is still partially...
Date of source: Saturday, December 25, 1999
The birds of darkness have returned to flap their wings once again, in an attempt to stop the wheel of progress in this country [of Egypt]; the occasion is the draft of the new Personal Status Law, that tries to lift some burdens off the Egyptian woman. Last week was the rage week of extremists,...