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Background: The recordings with Turkish Ambassador Yassir Yatis (whose post has been moved from Egypt to Austria) provide an overview of Turkish relations with countries in the region including Turkish-Israeli relations in light of a recent military deal and a Turkish military operation in Iraq....
Background: Muḥammad Maʾmūn al-Huḍaybī (28.5.1921 – 8.1.2004) was the official spokesman and secretary of the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). He was also shortly the Sixth General Guide of the MB from 2002 up to his death in 2004. Al-Huḍaybī speaks of the 1995 parliamentary elections...
Background: John Wesley is a mission director at perhaps one of the largest international aid mission in the world; United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The organization provides economic development as well as humanitarian assistance around in the world with respect to...
Background: Fārūq Ḥusnī was Minister of Culture in Egypt from 1987 to 2011. During his tenure, he expanded state-run exhibition spaces and initiated a number of cultural programmes such as the Gezira Arts Centre, Alexandria Centre of Arts, the Cairo History Rehabilitation Project (which included a...
Background: Eritrean Minister of Foreign Affairs Haile Woldense provides an Eritrean view on the Eritrean-Ethiopian war and his administration’s efforts to prevent it. Side A:   The Eritrean Foreign Minister, Haile Woldense, talks in a press conference about the Eritrean-Ethiopian War. He states...
Background: The recordings with Turkish Ambassador Yassir Yatis provide an overview of Turkish relations with countries in the region. The main topic of his speech and of his answers to journalists’ questions concern Turkey’s relations with the states of Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Greece. For...
Background:  This recording concerns the history of Red Sea tourism in Egypt, the preservance of the eco-system in relation to tourism and the drop in tourism following the Luxor massacre of 1997. A German-Egyptian couple outlines their hotel business’ rise at the Egyptian Red Sea coast. In a press...
Background: Two different subjects are addressed in the following recording: the restoration of the Hanging Church in Old Cairo, Egypt, and the Jordanian economist ʾUmayyah Ṭūqān’s views on the MENA summit in 1995. Saint Virgin Mary’s Coptic Orthodox Church, known as the Hanging Church was built...
Background: The Coptic Orthodox Church is the largest Christian Church in Egypt. According to tradition, the Church was established by Saint Mark, the Apostle.  It belongs to the Oriental Orthodox family of Churches. It took a different position over Christology from that of the Eastern Orthodox...
Background: This is a press conference in the running – up to the third MENA conference in Cairo and the panel consists of  Mr. Blood from the World Economic Forum, Farīd Munīr of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Dr. Peter Goepfrich, -Executive Director of the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce....

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