Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2001
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) issued a report titled "Egypt’s Al-Azhar Clerics: We declare war on America," The title implies that many if not most Azhar scholars declared war on America. Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi stressed that this was certainly not true. He said that the report...
Date of source: Monday, October 8, 2001
The Middle East Media Research Institute produced a report about responses in the Egyptian media to the attacks in the USA giving the impression that the Egyptian government, opposition, and independent press all celebrated the terrorist attacks on the USA. The RNSAW commented on MEMRI’s report and...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 26, 2001
The author believes that Muslim scholars, when commenting on the attacks in America and Islam’s relationship to it, talk about politics instead of talking about religion. Everything politicians wanted was said by religious scholars. In the end, religion will be troubled by the description that it...
Date of source: Monday, October 1, 2001
The Arabic attitude towards the expected American attacks against Afghanistan revolves around the official Egyptian stance that refuses to join the American crusade. Egypt’s clinging to this stance will help greatly in making the Arabic countries adopt the same attitude. At the same time, all the...
Date of source: Friday, September 28, 2001
Rev. Ikram Lama’i believes that the dilemma the USA is going through has four angles: historical, linguistic, civilizational and theological. He expressed the opinion that for America to get itself out of all these dilemmas, it should reconsider its actions and go back to the real principles of the...
Date of source: Friday, March 31, 2006
‘Āmir points out that the Muslim Brotherhood is a dangerous group that seeks to reach power through armed clashes with authorities. He suggests resisting such groups by distributing books that disprove their ideas.
Date of source: Sunday, March 26, 2006
The article reports on a tour of US churches for some Christian and Muslim figures organized by the American embassy in Cairo.
Date of source: Sunday, March 19, 2006
Nabīl ‘Abd al-Malik discusses the issue of the rights of minorities in the Middle East, suggesting that current circumstances require foreign support in order to achieve justice for persecuted minorities and ethnic groups in the region.
Date of source: Friday, March 24, 2006
Usāma Salāma argues that discussion of the Coptic file in the International Committee on Human Rights at the UN, may lead to harmful acts against Copts who still live inside Egypt.
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.