Arab West Report Egyptian press summaries and media research for dialogue

Sa‘īd ‘Abd al-Khāliq writes about the recent incidents that took place at the Abū Fānā Monastery.

The article explains a map that was sent to Arab West Report by H.E. Governor Ahmed Dia el-Din concerning the Abu Fana monastery.

The author reports on a dispute over a plot of land adjoins the Monastery of St. Makarius.

Al-Fajr newspaper reports about Hanī ‘Azīz’s attempt to take possession of public property in Alexandria.

Pope Shenouda III called for the necessity of reinterpreting some of the verses of the Qur’an and the Holy Bible that deal with procreation. He said that he had raised the awareness of preachers and priests that the number of children one breeds is not the gist of the matter. Dr. Muhammad Hamdi Zaqzouq, Minister of Awqaf [Endowments], confirmed the importance of interpreting the Qur’anic verse and the Hadiths that talk about reproduction, with a valid intellectual logic.

In this series illegal appropriation of lands in Upper Egypt, we can add the case of the farmer Sameh William Elea. He is the owner of two feddans, 14 qirats and 12 sahm. Last February 21 [1999], he was shocked when he found a man called Hashim Qassem with his two sons trying to appropriate a part of his land by force claiming that this piece of land was theirs.