Date of source: Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Al-Watan reports that President Muhammad Mursī has decided to appoint Coptic thinker Samīr Marqus, Dr. Bākīnām al-Sharqāwī, Dr. Sayf ‘Abd al-Fattāh, and writer, Sakīnah Fu’ād, to his presidential advisory team.
The decision was announced by the president's spokesman, Dr. Yāsir ‘Alī, who also said...
Date of source: Sunday, August 7, 2011
What had been planned as a “Friday of unifying the ranks” ended, as unanimously agreed by the Egyptian media, as a “Friday of splitting the ranks”. While the day began with various political groups, including Islamists, converging on Tahrir Square in numbers that came close to a million, it ended...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Comments on the speech given by Drs. Cornelis Hulsman at the Cairo University.
Date of source: Sunday, March 2, 2008
Hanān Fikrī reports on a conference organized by the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies [http://acpss.ahram.org.eg/eng/index_Eng.asp] in association with the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation [FEF, www.fes.de/] to discuss new challenges facing Copts’ citizenship.
Date of source: Sunday, April 29, 2007
The Center for Civilizational Studies and Dialogue between Cultures at Cairo University organized a forum on March 15 to introduce a book written by Father Christian van Nispen entitled, ‘Christians and Muslims: Brothers before God.’ Van Nispen’s principle argument is that both Muslims and...
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2006
Wisām Muhammad provides an insight into her experience as an intern working with the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Understanding. She describes her previous perceptions of the Western world, and how her work with AWR has helped to change her understanding, and further her commitment to...
Date of source: Thursday, March 22, 2007
AWR was invited to The Program for Civilizational Studies and Dialogue of Cultures at Cairo University to present a film about its work and explain to the students the necessity of caution in media reporting.
Dr. Ṭāriq Heggy visited AWR’s office to speak about what motivates him to write.
Remarks...
Date of source: Friday, December 1, 2006
Following the mixed public reaction to the recent statements made by the Egyptian minister of culture, Fārūq Husnī, on the Ḥijāb, the People’s Assembly’s committees for Religious Affairs and Culture and Media held an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the issue. In an attempt to...
Date of source: Sunday, September 10, 2006
The article discusses the
concept of cultural privacy through certain
intellectual patterns represented by cultural figures.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 14, 2006
A group of prominent experts from different academic backgrounds and ideological orientations, both Muslim and Christian, discussed whom the Regensburg lecture was really aiming at and how the current crisis could be constructively faced. They called for a reconsideration of the basis on which...