Date of source: Saturday, June 8, 2002
Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary members try to stop new legislation on the establishment and work of NGOs. They attacked many items in the legislation, such as an item that allows non-Egyptians to participate in NGOs. They argued that this could give people who hate Egypt the chance to penetrate...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Preparing a newsfile on the escalations following the conversion of the wife of a priest in Abū al-Matamir.
Developments in the requested NGO status of the Center for Arab-West Understanding.
Distortions in Western and Arab media and in Muslim-Christian relations.
Date of source: Thursday, January 8, 2004
Egyptian media and political leaders paying attention to Coptic Christmas.
Watani’s Editor-in-chief Yusuf Sidhom’s discusses the term ’ persecution’ in describing the position of Christians in Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 15, 2004
In an attempt to correct the image of Islam in the history textbooks
of European schools, the Arab League hosted a conference with the cooperation of International
and European organizations on Muslims’ image in Europe.
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2005
The recent release of the eight Chinese who had been taken hostage in Iraq, brought to my mind a question I had repeatedly been mulling over. For years I have been concerned with racist tendencies displayed by Arabs. Subconsciously, I admit, I curbed my thoughts on this question and opposed anyone...
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2005
President Husnī Mubārak phoned Pope Shenouda III to congratulate him on the Coptic Christmas and expressed heartfelt appreciation for the prelate and the Copts of Egypt. The President reiterated that Egypt is the country of all Egyptians, Muslims and Copts, and that Christians in Egypt are no...
Date of source: Sunday, December 30, 2001
Sheikh Fawzy Al-Zifzaf said that inter-religious dialogue does not mean obliging the follower of another religion to accept a certain religious belief or to make him agree with a new religion that combines the teachings of all religions. He added that there is no dialogue with the Jews as Jewish...
Date of source: Friday, December 14, 2001
The president of the Arab League realized that the problems Arabs and Muslims face in America after the September 11 attacks are not to be solved through policy and diplomacy as the root of these problems is cultural and intellectual. That was why the Arab League called for holding a conference to...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 27, 2001
The idea of a conflict between civilizations is not a Western invention, but almost an Islamic-Arabic one. Arabs believe the illusion that they are a threat to the West and that the West keeps conspiring against them. They always try to see others as responsible for their failures. Such feelings...
Date of source: Friday, September 22, 2000
In his meeting with Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, the Grand Imam of the Azhar, Sergi Manasarian, the Armenian ambassador in Egypt, announced that Pope Gergini [name transliterated from the Arabic], the head of the Armenian Orthodox Church, would be visiting Egypt in October.