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Date of source: Tuesday, February 4, 2014
In the article below Center for Arab-West Understanding board member Dr. Nabīl Hilmy mentions many important changes that Egypt needs.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 29, 2013
One of the greatest horrors that can befall a family is the sudden disappearance of their child. No country in the world could doubt such tragedy. Why then does controversy surround Coptic minors?
There are two prominent reasons, and both relate to the contested sectarian nature of Egyptian...
Date of source: Friday, December 27, 2013
Rev. Safwat al-Bayādī, president of the Protestant churches of Egypt, believes the amended constitution submitted to Egypt for referendum January 14-15, is 85 percent positive. As one of the fifty committee members, he described his experiences, both positive and negative, to Arab West Report on...
Date of source: Monday, December 16, 2013
On May 16, 2013, Arab-West Report was able to interview a former security advisor for the government in North Sinai, who preferred to stay anonymous. A general in the army, his posting began in 2005 and lasted until November, 2012, when he resigned in disagreement with the Mursī administration for...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Among the key components in the 2013 amendments to the Egyptian constitution is the role of religion, and few are better placed to judge than Muhammad ‘Abd al-Salām. A judge and the legal consultant to the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, Ahmad al-Tayyib, Salām served as one of three Azhar representatives...
Date of source: Sunday, January 12, 2014
‘Ādil Mājid is the vice-president of the Egyptian Court of Cassation, the nation’s supreme judicial body. He is an expert in international criminal law and anti-terrorism, and currently serves as special advisor to the Islamic Criminal Justice Project at Durham University in the United Kingdom,...
Date of source: Thursday, January 8, 2015
After a halting, stilted walk to receive me at the gate of the Zamalek Club, where he has become a near-celebrity, Husām al-Massāh opened our meeting with bombast.
“I have no party except the Egyptian Party!”
“I am a Coptic Muslim!”
“I was worth ten men on the committee!”
His verbal exuberance...
Date of source: Sunday, January 26, 2014
Mirvat al-Tallāwī is head of the National Council for Women and one of the fifty members of the committee to amend the 2012 constitution. After originally suggesting 20 names to the president hoping for a one-third female composition, the council received a note back asking this to be narrowed down...
Date of source: Sunday, January 26, 2014
The last thing Dr. Nadia Mustafá wanted to talk about on December 9 was the constitution. Enraged at the military coup which deposed President Mursī and mournful over the deaths of so many of his supporters, the constitution is as illegal as the current government which produced it.
Date of source: Thursday, January 23, 2014
On January 14th and 15th Egyptians cast their votes in the constitutional referendum. The official results presented by the High Elections Committee showed a 98.1% ‘yes’ vote with a turnout rate of 38.6%.[i] These results followed an aggressive media campaign in support of the constitution. To many...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.