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Participants of "The first international symposium of Egyptian Copts: A minority under siege.” addressed the symposium on one of three levels. The first expressed wrath at the deterioration in the state of affairs of the Copts throughout the past half – century. On the second level, participants...
Freedom is the core of the Shari’a [Islamic law]. If freedom came to be applied, illegality would disappear and Islamists would be the first ones to benefit from its application. How good would it be if Islamists reached the seat of authority through freedom! It never happened before in any...
The Center for Political Studies of the American State Department presented a report to the American Congress on Muslim-Coptic relations in Egypt. The report expressed the depth of these relations and warned that external demands of granting the Copts a privileged status will lead to more...
In the seminar Rose El-Youssef held to discuss the crisis of Al-Nabaa, Nawal Al-Sa’adawi wondered why the tabloids are growing. Actor Nour Sharif said restrictions that do not bring sensitive points between denominations to light are needed. President of the Egyptian book authority believes that...
The author discusses how much freedom there should be in who can issue a newspaper. Opinions differ from complete freedom to specialized papers dealing only with news in the area of their producers’ expertise.
The dangerous difference between the tabloids in Egypt and elsewhere is that in Egypt they have sneaked in uncontrolled by the officials, to a public unaware of the credibility of such papers. Where does freedom of the press end and where do its responsibilities begin? Shutting down newspapers by...
After Dale Gavlak and Cornelis Hulsman interviewed the governor of Qalyubiya they interviewed H.G. Bishop Marcos and asked him to respond to all the issues raised by the governor.
The head of the National Arab Americans Association said that when his association met the US Commission for International Religious Freedom, on its visit to Israel, they criticized the way the committee was formed and the way it works. He criticized the fact that Israel was not mentioned in the...
[RNSAW: Michael Meunier, president of the US Copts Association, only refers to the objections of Commissioner Nina Shea of the Freedom House to the report. He is obviously disappointed that all his activism did not produce the results he had wished.]
The report notices "some recent positive developments in the promotion of religious freedom." The areas of church building and preparing new history textbooks for public school children are explicitly mentioned. However, the Commission finds that serious problems of discrimination against a number...

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