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The Egyptian weekly Akher Saa published a number of articles with the title: “They sow hatred, malice and war.” [AWR, 2003, week 4, art. 26; week 6, art. 33; week 7, art. 37] The ‘they´ in the title refers to Israelis and Jews. Akher Saa lifts out negative statements on Arabs and Islam from Israeli...
Sharp questions have flared up concerning the independence of the Egyptian judicial system after the Criminal Court of Sohag sentenced only two of 95 defendants on February 27 in a retrial for the deaths of 21 Christians in and around the village of al-Kosheh in late 1999 and early 2000. The...
Interview with the Malaysian advisor of the prime minister for Islamic affairs. He explains the Malaysian perspective of Islam and comments on martyrdom operations and the Iraqi issue.
Many people in the West accused the Ramadan series A Knight Without a Horse of anti-Semitism. Egyptians denied this. The series is evaluated in this article. The conclusion is that A Knight Without a Horse served as an outlet for Egyptian frustration of being helpless observers of Palestinian...
Rick Anderson could not find the quote Ma´ali Abdel-Hamid Hamouda gave in al-Wafd (AWR, week 4). She probably remembered a text she had read some time ago, paraphrased it and presented this as a quote.
Christianity Today, a major US publication, published a highly distorted article on Christians in Egypt, making claims that are simply false or cannot be substantiated. Christianity Today based itself on material obtained from Operation World and other sources. Operation World admits they must have...
The article in Aqidati of January 28 seems to be intended to wipe up sentiments against Jews and Israel. There are plenty good reasons to criticize Israeli brutal policy towards the Palestinians but this article doesn´t do this but focuses on an aleged report to destroy Mecca and the Ka´ba and thus...
Meeting with an Egyptian official to discuss the application for NGO status.
Sudanese and other African asylum seekers are suddenly detained in large numbers creating great fear in their community in Cairo. This policy is probably related to Egyptian economical difficulties and ordinary Egyptians seeing Sudanese as competitors on an increasingly tight labor market.
Eulogy of the German Orientalist Dr. Annemarie Schimmel, the most well-known voice in the West for the understanding between Islam and the West.

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