Katia Saqqa, a Syrian writer and translator living in Egypt, writes that the term "Arabs" is used in Egypt to refer to tribal communities in the desert, Arab-West Report, 2008, week 15, art. 7. The head of the Beni Khaled village, neighbors of the monastery of Saint Fana, explained the importance of reclaiming desert land in Arab-West Report, 2008, week 15, art. 5
Al-Dustur, 13 June 2008, mentioned that the Holy Synod's declaration is the first of its kind and that it was issued while the pope was on a medical trip to the United States. See also Arab-West Report, 2008, week 15, art. 8
Dr. Amr al-Shubaki, 'Sectarianism and counter sectarianism,'in Al-Masry Al-Youm, 12 June 2008, Arab-West Report, 2008, week 15, art. 8. The methods of buying land through urfi agreements and Wad al-Yad are explained in Arab-West Report, 2008, week 15, art. 2.
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In the first days following the attack, 1–8 June, 15 different Egyptian print publications published 43 articles, many of them lengthy. In the weeks that followed, 9 June – 6 July, another 54 articles were published. For one month of reviews of Egyptian media following the attack see the English press reviews of Arab-West Report, 2008, week 15, art. 7,8,9 and 10[permanent dead link] and Arab-West Report, 2008, week 16, art. 11[permanent dead link]
The governor denied the legality of the ownership documents of the monastery and called them urfi, that is not properly registered with government authorities. Interviews with the governor can be seen in Arab-West Report, 2008, week 15, art. 3 and week 16, art. 4[permanent dead link].
[unreliable source?] Several Coptic websites make it obvious that there was contact between monks and Coptic activists in the West. The Free CoptsArchived 1 March 2011 at Archive-It website wrote on 7 June, "According to one of the monks on the scene, the Egyptian police did not respond to the attacks until three hours after the call for help was made." [citation needed] Most references appear to be to Father Mina, see for example Coptic AssemblyArchived 10 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
Reported on several Coptic websites, see for example Copts UnitedArchived 18 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine, which published the statement of a group of Coptic organizations on 6 June 2008, see also Coptic News
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[unreliable source?] Several Coptic websites make it obvious that there was contact between monks and Coptic activists in the West. The Free CoptsArchived 1 March 2011 at Archive-It website wrote on 7 June, "According to one of the monks on the scene, the Egyptian police did not respond to the attacks until three hours after the call for help was made." [citation needed] Most references appear to be to Father Mina, see for example Coptic AssemblyArchived 10 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
Reported on several Coptic websites, see for example Copts UnitedArchived 18 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine, which published the statement of a group of Coptic organizations on 6 June 2008, see also Coptic News
[unreliable source?] Several Coptic websites make it obvious that there was contact between monks and Coptic activists in the West. The Free CoptsArchived 1 March 2011 at Archive-It website wrote on 7 June, "According to one of the monks on the scene, the Egyptian police did not respond to the attacks until three hours after the call for help was made." [citation needed] Most references appear to be to Father Mina, see for example Coptic AssemblyArchived 10 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
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The Peninsula Times, 2 June 2008 published an AFP report mentioning that "a security official confirmed that three monks had been kidnapped by Muslims during the clashes and were released on Sunday morning and taken to hospital for treatment." The publication also reported about the demonstration that followed the day following the clashes.
Reported on several Coptic websites, The Peninsula Times, 2 June 2008. Nahdat Misr of 3 June 2008 headlined: "Copts of Mallawī demonstrated screaming the Muslims Brother's slogans". The author of the article Ayman Riyād mentioned that the Coptic demonstrators used a slogan that had been used earlier by Muslim Brothers: "I will pray, I will pray, no matter what may happen to me." The demonstrators also shouted: "Pope Shenouda take care of the issue, we are behind you and we defend you with our blood." It is noteworthy that the same article stated that it was proved that the abduction of the monks was a mere rumor.
[unreliable source?] Several Coptic websites make it obvious that there was contact between monks and Coptic activists in the West. The Free CoptsArchived 1 March 2011 at Archive-It website wrote on 7 June, "According to one of the monks on the scene, the Egyptian police did not respond to the attacks until three hours after the call for help was made." [citation needed] Most references appear to be to Father Mina, see for example Coptic AssemblyArchived 10 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
Reported on several Coptic websites, see for example Copts UnitedArchived 18 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine, which published the statement of a group of Coptic organizations on 6 June 2008, see also Coptic News
