Date of source: Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Introduction of Cornelis Hulsman of the Egyptian non-Government delegation in Parliament
Thank you Mr. Chairman for making this meeting possible. I have been in this room in a previous meeting on Egypt in August 2013. We are now two years later. I am mostly living and working in Egypt for an NGO...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Purpose of this visit was to create understanding between Egypt and the West, Muslims and Christians. The Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU) advocates dialogue based on facts and acceptance of peoples of different beliefs and convictions but does not want to advocate any political or...
Date of source: Monday, September 21, 2015
The Chinese community in Cairo has been continuously growing over the past years, as Chinese and the Egyptian political and economic relations are becoming steadily more intertwined. Last Friday, September 18, the Egyptian-Chinese Friendship Association and the Egyptian Friendship Organisation...
Date of source: Saturday, September 19, 2015
Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Daily News Egypt and al-Bawaba news all report about the ban on reporting on the killings of Mexican tourists in Egypt’s Western desert. There is growing public anger against the absence of transparency and increased media gags.
Date of source: Saturday, September 19, 2015
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W. Winston Skinner reported on September 17, 2015 in the Times-Herald that an Egyptian native Christian missionary, in the article called pastor X, “told about 95 people at the International Leadership Team in Carrollton on Tuesday that...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Recommendation letter for the Center for Arab-West Understanding
Between 1963 and 1977 I was teaching Old Testament at the Coptic Evangelical seminary in Abbasiyya, Cairo, during which period I lived with my family in Heliopolis. This period has left me ever since with a deep sense of involvement...
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Christianity in the Arab World was flourishing in relative terms prior to the First World War and consequent break-up of the Ottoman Empire.
Date of source: Sunday, January 4, 2015
Press review: the kidnapping of Coptic Christians in Libya
On January 4, 2015, the Libyan Ambassador to Egypt reported that he had not yet begun coordinating an airlift to evacuate Coptic Christians from Libya, adding that the embassy was involved in intense and ongoing discussions with the...
Date of source: Sunday, September 6, 2015
Having grown up with a huge share of 19th century European thought which has been heavily affected by the story of “the disenchantment of the world” during which the God of monotheism had taken a couple of heavy knocks, I recently became interested in Islamic religious thought.
I soon found out...
Date of source: Sunday, September 6, 2015