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Cairo University President Mohamed Al-Khosht: Reform Of Religious Discourse Is Not Enough, We Need To Revive Religion Itself

By MEMRI -President of Cairo University Mohamed Al-Khosht called for a "completely new religious discourse," saying that "reformed discourse" was not enough and calling...

- March 5, 2018 1

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Rift widens between Egyptian president, Al-Azhar

By Shahira Amin - Al MonitorWhen Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, then defense minister, gave a televised speech on July 3, 2013, announcing that...

- February 28, 2017 0

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Fmr. Jordanian FM Marwan Al-Muasher: We Must Vanquish Terror Groups Ideologically, Not Just Militarily

By MEMRIFormer Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Al-Muasher said, in a recent TV interview, that the education systems in the Arab world had "failed miserably,"...

- February 2, 2017 0

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Egyptian Intellectual Dr. Khale Montaser: Islamic Extremism Does Not Stem From Poverty Or Ignorance; Our Interpretation Of Our Religion Is In Conflict With Modernity

By MEMRIEgyptian intellectual Dr. Khaled Montaser said that while extremism was once considered to be the outcome of poverty or of one's environment, this...

- January 27, 2017 0

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Al Azhar: No to Reforming “Religious Discourse”

By Raymond Ibrahim – Special for CS -Much of Al Azhar University’s curriculum is based on Islam’s ancillary books, written in the medieval era...

- November 16, 2016 0

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The Time Is Now For Urgent Middle East Reform

By Alberto M. FernandezIt is all too easy today to look at the Middle East and throw up one's hands in deep despair, at...

- November 2, 2016 0

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Egypt: Copt and son killed in IS attack September 7, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesPrayers in Deir El-Garnouse Coptic church, near Al-Minya in Upper Egypt, after Islamic State opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts, killing at least 28 people in May 2017. A Christian father and son were killed by suspected Islamic State militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on 30 August. The two Copts, Salama […]
Egypt: Father and son stabbed in latest attack on Copts August 12, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesCopts in Egypt have been targeted in a string of attacks this year. An elderly Coptic Christian and his son who run an off-license shop in Giza, central Egypt, were hospitalized after they were severely injured in an attack. Joseph Israel, 70, was sitting outside his shop in the Omrania district in […]
Egypt: Copt stabbed seven times by neighbour who’d lured in his son March 24, 2022
An Egyptian Christian was stabbed multiple times when he tried to rescue his son who was held against his will by a Muslim neighbour in Alexandria. On the night of 15 February, Magdy Fathy Shehata Awad Allah, deacon at the Coptic Orthodox Church in the northeast of Alexandria and a human rights activist, was rushed […]
Egypt: Coptic Christian imprisoned for 5 years for ‘blasphemy’ February 9, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesA police man enters a prison on the outskirts of Egypt’s capital Cairo. A Coptic Christian has been sentenced to five years in prison for blasphemy, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, or EIPR, which represented him during his trial. On 29 January the Cairo Economic Court found Marco Gerges […]

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