Date of source: Thursday, March 13, 2014
I talked to Father Yo’annis, and he narrated to me an incident that occurred to him on March 10 while he was driving back to Maghagha from Cairo. He went to Cairo for a visit to a patient at Al-Salam International Hospital. He was accompanied by the brother-in-law of this patient, Salafi Shaykh...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 5, 2014
In a recent article for Arab West Report, Editor-in-Chief Cornelis Hulsman highlighted the mutual recourse to anti-Semitic accusations on the part of both opponents and supporters of the current government. He referenced to research complied by MEMRI, in which General Sīsī and the Muslim...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Seeking to represent all sectors of Egyptian society, the Egyptian Committee of Fifty to amend the constitution of 2012 was light on political parties. Only four seats were assigned, two for liberals and two for Islamists. This was in contrast to the Committee of One Hundred that wrote the 2012...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Following the passage of the 2012 Egyptian constitution in a disputed and divisive referendum, Muslim Brotherhood leader Muhammad al-Biltājī praised the text and tried to assuage opponents of any flaws it might contain.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 5, 2014
The composition of the committee to rewrite Egypt’s constitution was deliberately designed to include the diversity of Egyptian society. According to the representative of the Nubian community, Hajāj Udūl, in the case of his people this was a deliberate break from the past.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 26, 2014
In its dispatch no. 5657 MEMRI focuses on the mutual accusations between supporters of the current regime and the Muslim Brotherhood. “Each camp accuses members of the other camp of being Jewish and of implementing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” The MEMRI report is full of examples from both...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Raymond Ibrahim, author of “Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians,” is blatantly anti-Muslim in his writings. He is doing ‘well’ in creating fear for Muslims.
Ibrahim interprets all violence of Muslims against Christians as something that is motivated through Islam as religion....
Date of source: Tuesday, February 25, 2014
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Date of source: Tuesday, February 25, 2014
In April 2013, U.S.-Austrian photographer and filmmaker Norbert Schiller, U.S. filmmaker Dana Smillie, and I visited locations of the Holy Family in Upper Egypt that we had previously visited for the preparation of the book Be Thou There; the Holy Family’s Journey in Egypt (AUC Press, 2001)....
Date of source: Tuesday, January 28, 2014
The interview took place at the residence of the bishop in Six October City on December 10, 2013. The interview was entirely in Arabic and was transcribed and translated into English.
Interviewers: Cornelis Hulsman and Jayson Casper
Transcribed by: Ahmad Deiab and Raafat Nabil
Translated by: Ahmad...