Date of source: Friday, October 18, 2002
The head of the International Forum of Women in Mexico invited the head of the Azhar Committee of Inter-
religious Dialogue to attend a three-day international conference in Mexico City. The conference includes the issue
of inter-religious dialogue on its agenda.
Date of source:
The efforts of
the Shaykh of the Azhar to dissolve the Azhar Scholars Front and
to turn it into "The benevolent
organization for helping the children of the workers in the Azhar," have succeeded.
The Supreme Court of
Administrative Justice ruled to dissolve the Front and to change both its...
Date of source: Friday, September 8, 2006
The article
deals with intercultural dialogue held at
the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS) in
which all participants agreed on the necessity
of changing religious discourse to strengthen the values of
equality and coexistence.
Date of source: Thursday, June 8, 2006
The controversial document of
religious rights has
disappeared from the Azhar sheikhdom, raising many questions over the grand
imām’s
relations to it. Al-Maydān publishes a picture of Dr.
Tantāwī and Shaykh
cAmr al-Bastawīsī, the former head of the office
of the grand imām,
shaking hands...
Date of source: Thursday, May 18, 2006
‘Askar accused al-
Zifzāf of being an
atheist in the People’s Assembly. This dispute embodies the need of reform our
religious institutions.
Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006
Christians in Egypt have rejected a document
that is alleged by
some to allow missionary work in Egypt, arguing that it will increase tension between Muslims
and Copts.
AWR has already published Shaykh al-Zifzāf’s denial fo these claims, with a link
to the
full text of the document.
Date of source: Thursday, April 13, 2006
The Document of Religious Rights, signed in April 2005 by the former head of
the Interfaith Dialogue
Committee, Dr. Fawzī al-Zifzāf, with visiting U.S. Christian clerics, has
been categorically rejected
by the Religious Affairs Committee of the People’s Assembly, on the grounds that
it "...
Date of source: Saturday, December 31, 2005
Dr. Wolfram Reiss discusses the obstacles and opportunities identified by a German project and accompanying international dialogue on the revision of school textbooks in the Middle East, in terms of their treatment of Christianity.
Date of source: Saturday, December 31, 2005
Soraya Hoppe writes about her experiences working as an intern at the Center for Arab-West Understanding.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 14, 2006
German scholar Dr. Wolfram Reiss on school textbooks in Egypt, Palestine, Turkey and Iran.
Inflammatory and uninvestigated claims about Christian girls being kidnapped.
Muslim Brotherhood leader Muhammad Mahdī ākif denies the Holocaust.