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Radical Islamists have not only settled for censorship in their fight against intellectuals, but have issued fatwas, sentencing to death thinkers with whom they disagree. Intellectuals across the Muslim world have been attacked or assassinated in accordance with these fatwas.
The ferocious attack waged by Egyptian press against Zurich Conference, held in mid-September to discuss the affairs of the Coptic minority in Egypt, mirrored the government’s serious role to abort bids to establish democracy.
Since 1971, religious problems have started to emerge on the Egyptian scene tangibly, albeit not in a very serious manner. Muslims and Christians clashed in the city of Al-Khanka. Following Al-Khanka incident, a committee affiliated with the People's Assembly visited the incident site and offered a...
In the interview with the Grand Mufti of the Republic, Sheikh Ali Goma’a, published in Watani on June 6, 2004, His Eminence mocked some questions about citizenship, describing them as funny. We would like to ask his Eminence about the meaning of citizenship. Does citizenship mean drinking the same...
A recent honeymoon has recently emerged between Western governments and a number of political Islam movements in the Arab world.
It is quiet natural that the desecration of a Holy Book, a Qur’ān or a Bible, ignites rage. It can be ascribed to the human nature that is very susceptible to symbolism and metaphor.
There is no doubt the United States has become more interested in lending an ear to the voice of moderate Islamists as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had considered in statements that the ascension of Islamists to power was an undesirable possibility.
In his book “No god but God : The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam,” the American Iranian author, Reza Aslān writes that conservative and liberal Muslims dispute over defining their own conviction.
Bahīy al-Dīn Hasan, the Director of the Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies comments on the annual report that was released by the National Council for Human Right which has mentioned that Egypt was used as the CIA’s Mecca to torture prisoners and extort information before sending them either to...
We are currently talking about the rights of Copts to run for the presidency as well as other state and executive posts. It would be just good to raise this matter in this time and atmosphere in which we sense an undeniable tacit tension in the air between Muslims and Copts.

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