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After a round of loud applause following his Wednesday sermon at the Cathedral, Pope Shenouda burst into tears remembering the tragic events of Alexandria.
An investigation, carried out with help of AWR editor-in-chief Cornelis Hulsman, into the events surrounding the riots in Alexandria on Friday, October 21, 2005.
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) has presented its report on the recent sectarian incidents in Alexandria, making several proposals that it hopes will help avoid future sectarian violence.
The press report that the Muslim Brotherhood have spent 28 million LE on election propaganda, and that their slogan, ’Islam is the solution’, is simply used to avoid providing detailed solutions to Egypt’s problems.
The Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies (ICDS), headed by Dr. Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, has failed to link 10 local human right organizations into the new network for development and democracy.
Many Muslims and Christians enter each other’s places of worship in order to condole friends over the death of relatives or to congratulate them on the occasions of weddings. The author states that the proximity between churches and mosques has no bearing on sectarian tensions.
Fārouq al-Tawīl argues that the press are responsible for much of the sectarian sedition in Egypt, and that until it behaves in a responsible, informative, non-sensationalist fashion, events like the Alexandria violence will continue.
A discussion of the reaction of the Egyptian press to the events in Alexandria, where Muslims demonstrated against a play, produced by the Mar Girgis Church, that they considered offensive to Islam.
Some might have expected the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) to pay gratitude to the Copts in the parliamentary elections, but in fact, only one Copt was nominated by the NDP in the Ghurbāl constituency in Alexandria.
‘Ammār ‘Alī Hasan states that the press in Egypt is in crisis, and criticizes irresponsible unprofessional newspapers that caused sectarian problems by their treatment of the play produced by a church in Alexandria.

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