Date of source: Sunday, February 27, 2000
A group of Coptic youth give their reactions to the recent incidents of Al-Kosheh.
Date of source: Sunday, February 27, 2000
Though some shops damaged in the riots in Al-Kosheh suffered damaged amounting to 200,000 EgP a ministerial decision has limited the maximum compensation that any individual who suffered loss in the riots will receive from the Egyptian government to 1,000 EgP.
Date of source: Monday, February 28, 2000
"Giving statements requires being logical and fluent, and everything that lacks reason and does not reveal a truth is not a statement, even in signed by a hundred "intellectuals"!!, whether headed or not headed by Said Al-Naggar [Al-Naggar means the carpenter], the blacksmith, or even Said the car-...
Date of source: Sunday, February 27, 2000
"The Statement of the Hundred" that was published in the same place last week was divided into three parts: a call to the nation, recommendations to the officials, and a list with the hundred names who had signed this statement. Starting from this week, we will screen the reactions to the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
This is a statement about the recent events of Al-Kosheh. Hundreds of cultured people in Egypt signed it. These people care about the country’s concerns.
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2000 to Friday, February 25, 2000
What is to come after the disaster of Al-Kosheh?! Every Egyptian is asking this question. Will the government’s procedures [successfully] cure the nation’s body of the virus of sectarianism?
Date of source: Wednesday, February 16, 2000
Sub-title: Local senior officials are powerless... the government-owned media foment tension
The Egyptian Organization for Human rights issued a report about the results the organization’s fact-finding mission reached concerning the latest incidents of Al-Kosheh in [the region of] Sohag. At the...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 15, 2000
The full, published text of the EOHR’s Special Report on the Al-Kosheh incident.
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2000 to Friday, February 25, 2000
On my last visit to Egypt, I noticed a genuine national revolution against religious fanaticism and terrorism, a revolution against exploiting religion that calls for love and peace. In Egypt we find love between neighbors and love of the unity of a nation in which equality in opportunities has...
Date of source: Thursday, February 17, 2000
Dr. Hussein Kamel Bahaa’ Eddin has decided that some officials should to be investigated for preventing a Christian teacher from teaching Arabic language syllabuses because they contain verses from the Holy Qur’an. The minister also decided that Christian teachers are to resume teaching Arabic...