Date of source: Monday, June 5, 2006
At a press
conference,
preceding the opening of an exhibition of Tutankhamen monuments in Chicago a few days ago, the
secretary-
general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Dr. Zāhī Hawwās, urged wealthy
businessman, John
Roe, to return a Pharaonic sarcophagus, which Roe keeps in his office...
Date of source: Thursday, June 1, 2006
The author argues that some demands of expatriate Copts are contradictory.
While they call for the establishment of a secular state, they call for a percentage quota for Copts in the
different institutions of the state, which the author sees as a sectarian approach.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Elizabeth Yell reviews an article, given to AWR by Dr. ‘Alī al- Simmām, head of the Committee of Dialogue and Islamic Relations in the Higher Council for Islamic Affairs, which he found to be highly significant on the changing attitude of the Vatican towards Christians in the Middle East.
Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
The
article reads that only a few days after an article was published by
the Washington Post criticizing Saudi
curricula, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) held a
symposium on the issue of the relationship between
Islamic textbooks in Saudi Arabia and the war on
terror.
Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
During their meeting yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI and British
Prime Minister Tony Blair
agreed on the need for interfaith and intercultural dialogue to combat terrorism,
underscoring the contribution
that common values among religions can make to dialogue, particularly with
Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
The article deals with a protest by Copts in Chicago against what they called
persecution of their fellow Copts in Egypt, taking advantage of an exhibition on King Tutankhamen to send a
message, as they said, to American politicians.
Date of source: Monday, June 5, 2006
The author
reports insults directed to
the Azhar in the Islamic Centre in London and a similar incident in
Malaysia.
Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
A recent opinion poll conducted by the
Dutch News Agency (ANP) has showed that half of all Dutch people hate
Muslims, that 10% of them believe that
they are more intelligent than immigrants and that “racial discrimination
showed be allowed against
immigrants.”
Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
Claims that Pakistani Christian children sold as slaves to fund Islamic militants and that the police have failed to take action, despite two Christian missionaries providing photographic evidence of children being sold.
Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
Canadian police have
arrested
17 terror suspects on charges of planning attacks on a number of buildings in Canada. In Britain,
anti-terrorist
police hunted for a “dirty” chemical device that they say terrorists could use in attack in
the United Kingdom. In
Washington, the U.S. Department of...