Date of source: Monday, June 22, 2020
Dina Bouchkouch, a Muslim Moroccan- French student, interned twice at the Center for Arab-West Understanding, once in 2017 and again in 2019. In 2017 Dina came to know Egyptian Christianity. She wrote about Saint Simon the Tanner’s Monastery and went with Chinese intern Shangyun Shen to Maghagha,...
Date of source: Thursday, February 6, 2020
Cornelis Hulsman and interns of the Center for Arab-West Understanding have frequently contributed to the Maadi Messenger, a community magazine that is distributed in Maadi, Cairo, Egypt. This is also where the office of Arab-West Report is located.
This time the Maadi Messenger asked Cornelis...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Junghoon Lee (Republic of Korea) undergraduate in Arabic and Spanish, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, interning between February 2019 and June 2019.
I worked as a research intern for the Center for Arab West Understanding (CAWU) from February to June 2019. I chose to come to Egypt as my...
Date of source: Thursday, June 1, 2017
Tensions are high in Egypt following the brutal attack on Christians in Minya [Minyā] on May 27, leaving 29 Christians, among them ten children, dead and 25 others wounded. Father Yo’annis [Yū'annis] of Qufada [Qufādā] told us that most of the Christians came from the dioceses of Maghagha [...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 31, 2017
I just returned from a visit to the UK where I attended a church service in Startfort, London. Stratfort is an area with a large percentage of Muslims living in it. They prayed for the victims of the Manchester bombing while simultaneously speaking with great love about their Muslim neighbours....