Date of source: Friday, August 25, 2006
Much to
the surprise of many Egyptian intellectuals and
political science experts, the director of the Ibn Khaldūn
Center for Development Studies (ICDS), Dr.
Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, recently announced
that he was ready to mediate between
political Islamic groups, in particular the Muslim...
Date of source: Sunday, August 27, 2006
Pope Shenouda will leave Cleveland Hospital today. His medical
conditions are
reported to be stable and responding to treatment.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 23, 2006
This
article traces the battle between Islam and Christianity via the satellites and the internet, led by an
Islamic
preacher, ‘Abdullāh Badr and a priest, Zakarya Butrus. Satellite channels and the
internet have
become a means through which sectarian sedition is spread in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, August 27, 2006
Irshad Manji argues that despite an increasingly popular belief, foreign policy grievances have caused the increased number of terrorist attacks in the West, the violent jihadists have rarely needed foreign policy grievances to justify their hot heads, as demonstrated by their kidnapping of...
Date of source: Thursday, August 24, 2006
Mursī
‘Attallah defends Islam as a religion of peace, not terrorism and racism.
Date of source: Sunday, August 20, 2006
Bāsimah William writes about the celebrations of the feast of the Virgin Mary at Dayr al-Azrā’ in Jabal Assiut, which does not attract only Christians, but also Muslims and people from all over the world.
Date of source: Saturday, August 19, 2006
The article reviews the autobiography of Father Matta al-
Maskīn, one of the founders of modern monasticism in the Coptic Christian faith, in which he mentioned
his
intervention to reconcile late President Anwar al-Sadāt and Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria in their
crisis.
Date of source: Friday, August 18, 2006
The article deals with the reasons behind splits in the Egyptian church like
the defection
of Hābīl Tawfīq and Max Michel, who both want to set up churches independent
from the mother
Coptic Orthodox church, in addition to attempts by the Mormons to build their own church in al-
Ma‘ādī, in...
Date of source: Sunday, August 20, 2006
The author discusses how the Jews
throughout their modern history have
made good use of the Holocaust as a tool for blackmailing others in order to
attain their interests and how
they used ready-made accusations of anti-Semitism to threaten those who dare to
criticize Israeli policies
or...
Date of source: Friday, August 18, 2006
Pope Shenouda III and the Middle East Council of Churches
call upon
Christians to raise funds for the people of Lebanon.