Date of source: Sunday, March 4, 2001
An Israeli document, referred to by * in his defense file*** ,calls for establishing a Coptic country in Upper Egypt. It shows the target Israel wants to achieve since the 1980s. That is dividing each country of the Arab world. The author believes that this document explains what is going on in...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 21, 2001
The author considered Adel Hamouda’s article "The Suspicious Relationship Between Pope Shenouda and Rifa’at Al-Sa’id" to be a slip of a pen. He is of the opinion that the desire to write something which attracts attention, pushed Hamouda to write this article that there was no need for. It pushed...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 28, 2001
In his book "I Confess," Gamal Asa’ad tells the story of his sad experience with the Tagammu party, especially its leaders, their unexplained position toward him, and their constant actions to contradict their beliefs. He believes that the Church is partially responsible for sectarian strife in...
Date of source: Friday, February 9, 2001
Sout Al-Umma came out with its first issue on December 6, 2000. It is a small paper which is still seeking a share of the market. From the choice of articles and subjects in this paper it is obvious it likes to publish controversial issues.
Date of source: Thursday, February 8, 2001
Fa’iq Zakka Bolous was, we are told, Abuna Gawargy Al-Makari. His introduction of himself is not characteristically monastic: He tells us that he " was one of the best, most intelligent and most conscientious" novices. It is not too much to say that he constantly reveals himself to be someone who...
Date of source: Saturday, September 16, 2000
Adel Hamouda uses a very sarcastic tone to relate two stories. One is about a bearded man who did not allow a lifeguard to save his veiled wife, who was fighting for her life in the waves of the sea, because the lifeguard is not related to her and thus does not have the right to touch her. The...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 1, 2000
In this article, the Revd. Dr. John H. Watson comments on Adel Hamouda’s article on father Matta el-Meskeen that was published in Al-Arabi of July 23, 2000. Watson believes Hamouda’s article "is an extraordinarily interesting article for all who are concerned with the life of the Coptic Orthodox...
Date of source: Sunday, July 23, 2000
Subtitles: * Sadat ruled him out of the vote for a new Pope and then later gave him three hundred fidans in the desert. * He was the first monk to have a university qualification and Pope Shenouda was one of his followers in the monastery. * He said to me that Sadat’s eyes were red when he got...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 17, 2000
The author criticized sarcastically the sudden discovery of the blasphemous aspect of Coca Cola, after 100 years of its production. In the writer’s opinion, the oppression which many Muslims suffer in some Islamic countries, leads them to accept nonsense and rumors and even to use modern technology...
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
After the incidents of Al-Kosheh, and in one of the Gulf satellite channels, Dr. Milad Hanna was back to that ugly tone that he started years ago, the tone through which he denied all his past developmental ideas and his patriotic enlightened history (or, for accuracy, his history that seemed...