Date of source: Monday, November 6, 2006
This review discusses news about
the conference on ‘Laymen and the Church’ which is supposed to be held on November 14 and 15 at the Egyptian
Association for Enlightenment. However members of the association filed a claim to cancel the conference. The
Orthodox church expressed its disapproval of...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Upcoming changes to the National Council of Human Rights are discussed and their impact on the council’s members.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 24, 2006
According to article no. 4 of law 84 for 2002, the Ibn Khaldūn Center and the “American and the Democratic Institutes” are considered to be legally dissolved.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 9, 2006
The National Council for Human Rights hosted a workshop to discuss the controversial proposal of removing the religion reference from Egyptian ID cards.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Two articles published about AWR in Dutch newspapers.
The new request for NGO status.
Date of source: Thursday, July 13, 2006
This review deals with the controversy still blazing over the split of
clergyman Max Michel from the mother Coptic Orthodox Church, and his establishment of Qur’ān independent church and a
holy synod for Copts in Egypt and the Middle East.
Date of source: Thursday, June 1, 2006
The author of the article
argues that the financial
support offered by foreign organization to Egyptian NGOs is spent on political
activities and luxuries for these
NGOs’ employees.
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
Agharīd Mustafa was interested in the attempts of Drs.
Cornelis
Hulsman, a Dutch scholar and the director of the Center for Arab-West Understanding, to narrow the gap
between the West and the Arab world. She interviewed him in Cairo for the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Ra’y al-
‘Ām.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The third
meeting of
the Council for Human Rights and civil society organizations has called for the establishment of a
Ministry
of Human Rights and for changes in Egyptian society to prevent sectarianism and discrimination.
Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006
In an interview with al-
Musawwar, Habīl Tawfīq
Sa‘īd, a self-styled ‘priest,’ speaks about the
independent Orthodox denomination of the
“Sons of St. Paul the apostle,” which he founded in 1982 and which then
included 3.5 million Coptic Orthodox
members from all over the world.