Date of source: Sunday, August 17, 2014
This interview was arranged by Cornelis Hulsman for Omar Ali’s research on political party institutionalization in Egypt. The interview was attended by both and took place on June 1, 2014. The interview started in Arabic but after the first response continued in English. Omar Ali made the...
Date of source: Friday, April 11, 2014
While the Coptic Pope has supported al-Sīsī’s presidential bid, Coptic intellectuals think it may take more than the Pope’s blessings for the Copts to vote for him.
Date of source: Sunday, December 1, 2013
As of today, December 2, 2013, the appointed fifty-member of the committee to amend the 2012 Egyptian Constitution are engaged in final voting on each article. They face a deadline to complete their work by December 3, after which it will be put to a national referendum in mid-January.
In advance...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 30, 2013
On Thursday July 25, AWR Editor-in-Chief, Cornelis Hulsman, invited me and the other interns to take part to a very peculiar experience: joining him in his interview with Safwat Hegazi, a leading Islamist.
Date of source: Monday, August 19, 2013
On August 19, an opinion piece by Dr. Tariq Ghazalī Harb appeared in al-Masrī al-Yawm, a liberal Egyptian daily newspaper. The author, a surgeon, describes the Muslim Brotherhood (which he always names with negative sarcasm) as a cancer in society, and in his authoritative medical opinion the only...
Date of source: Sunday, November 3, 2013
The draft of this text originally published in Nederlands Dagblad was first seen and approved by Dr. Amr Darrag. We find it of great importance that the opinions of people we interview are presented as accurately as possible.
Former Minister, Amr Darrag, member of the high board of the Freedom and...
Date of source: Sunday, November 3, 2013
I have read the July 22 and October 22 interviews with Dr. Amr Darrag and find his answers to be typical of the Muslim Brotherhood, who present themselves as victims without indications that they are willing to acknowledge failures on their side.
Date of source: Monday, August 19, 2013
In the Virgin Mary Cathedral for Catholic Copts, situated only a few streets behind the area of Rābaʽah al-‘Adawīyyah, I met with Bishop Yohanna Qulta on the 13th of August, following an article he wrote, “The Impossibility of Civil War in Egypt,” in which he stated that he did not fear a civil...
Date of source: Sunday, April 28, 2013
Dr. Safwat Hegazy explained when, in his view, violence can be used: anyone can kill President Bashar al-Assad (Bashār al-Asad) because of his crimes against humanity. Also Israeli soldiers can be targeted since they are at war with Palestinians. This was prior to President Mursi’s removal from...
Date of source: Sunday, March 3, 2013
This interview was held on March 3, 2013 with the participation of researcher Jayson Casper and research assistant Diana Serôdio. It aimed at grasping Dr. Nadīyah Mustafá's perspective on the process through which the new Constitution came into being. The content of this interview was later used...