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Egyptian Convert Flees Potential Dangers in Syria
Maher El-Gohary and daughter apply for asylum in France.
ISTANBUL, April 21 (CDN) — A father and daughter who fled Egypt to Syria after spending two and a half years in hiding for becoming Christians have arrived in France and yesterday applied for asylum there, human rights advocates said.
Maher Ahmad El-Mo'otahssem Bellah El-Gohary, 58, had become the target of Islamic ill will in Egypt after he tried to change the religious affiliation on his national identification card from Muslim to Christian. He and his daughter, 17-year-old Dina Mo'otahssem, arrived in Paris from Syria on March 30 after having fled to Damascus on Feb. 22 in the wake of the revolution in Egypt that deposed then-President Hosni Mubarak.
The Jan. 25-Feb. 11 protests in Egypt also weakened the Ministry of the Interior, an agency that had harassed El-Gohary and prevented him from leaving the country.
El-Gohary had fled to Syria because it was both the fastest and the easiest way to get out of Egypt, but he said he also feared Islamic opposition to converts in Syria and growing political unrest in Damascus.
"When we got to the French embassy in Syria, we were so scared because of what was happening in Syria at the time," he said.
It took him more than a month to secure a visa to leave Syria. Previously in Egypt, he had been able to leave because he had received a court decision ordering the Ministry of the Interior to allow him to leave the country; taking advantage of the confusion gripping Egyptian government agencies in the wake of the anti-Mubarak protests, he left with his daughter.
Eventually El-Gohary and his daughter hope to gain a visa to the United States and then immigrate.
Despite their newfound safety, El-Gohary and Dina are still shaken by their ordeal. They said they are afraid that a Muslim extremist in France could seek them out and attack them. They also have unresolved medical issues from the physical stress of two years of hiding and from not being able to receive proper medical care during that time.
On Monday (April 18), El-Gohary went to the Embassy of the United States in Paris to apply for U.S. asylum as well. According to a Coptic activist who requested anonymity, the embassy advised El-Gohary that his best option was for his wife, who lives in the United States, to apply for a visa to allow him to enter the country. El-Gohary is also applying for a tourist visa to the United States. Human rights activists have advised El-Gohary to stay in France while he applies for asylum rather than go to the United States on a tourist visa, which may leave him financially exposed and hinder his immigration efforts.
Meantime, El-Gohary's application for asylum in France qualifies him for an automatic three-month extension on his visa to France, which was set to expire at the end of the month. The extension can be renewed as long as his case is unresolved. It also qualifies him for certain government benefits.
'Miracle from God'
El-Gohary and his daughter were forced into hiding in August 2008 immediately after he filed his lawsuit to change his ID card's religious designation. The suit caused uproar in a country where, according to a recent Pew Research Center poll, 84 percent of Muslims in Egypt believe those who leave Islam should be executed.
El-Gohary filed the suit, he said, because he wanted to spare his daughter the persecution he suffered when he became a Christian in his 20s. In theory, the religion listed on his ID card would be used to determine the religion listed on Dina's.
In Egypt, it is illegal for adults not to have a national ID card, and it is nearly impossible to survive without one. It is necessary for opening a bank account, renting an apartment and obtaining medical care. Also, being identified as a Muslim in Egypt makes one subject to Islamic civil law, which would have prevented Dina from marrying someone identified as a Christian.
Freedom of religion, including the right to change one's religion, is guaranteed in Egypt by law. But in practice, while it is easy for Christian converts to Islam to change the religion listed on their ID cards, it is impossible for a Muslim convert to Christianity to do the same.
For the time that El-Gohary and his daughter were on the run, they lived a marginal existence, moving from one safe house to another about once every month. On different occasions, he and Dina were attacked. On one occasion, El-Gohary said, Dina had acid thrown on her. On another, he said someone came at him with a knife.
El-Gohary called his escape from Egypt a "miracle from God," but when he arrived in Syria he was quickly faced with the reality that he was alone in a country in which he had no support network and felt almost as unsafe as he did in Egypt. Also, his expectation that he would be able to quickly obtain a visa to the United States proved false. Frustrated by what he described as a cold reception at the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, he began to look for any country in Europe that would give him an
entry visa.
On advice of the Vatican Embassy in Syria, El-Gohary went to the French Embassy in Damascus, which issued a short-term visa the same day.
"I really appreciate what the French ambassador did for us," El-Gohary said. "The French saved us."
El-Gohary was able to get to France with the support of Egyptian Christians and advocacy groups, most notably the United Copts of Great Britain. Dr. Ibrahim Habib, a Copt and the chairman of the group, said his organization arranged accommodation for El-Gohary and Dina with an Egyptian Christian in France. Habib said El-Gohary, motivated by fear, left for France unprepared.
"He was going to France without knowing anybody at all," Habib said. "He was just going to land in the airport and start thinking, 'What are we going to do?'"
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Convert from Islam Escapes Egypt with Daughter
Posted on March 29, 2011 by particularkev
After painful effort to change ID card, Christians flee – to similar fate.
CAIRO, Egypt, March 21 (CDN) — When the plane carrying Maher El-Gohary and his daughter, Dina Mo'otahssem, took off from Cairo International Airport last month, they both wept with joy. After spending two-and-a-half years in hiding for leaving Islam to become Christians, they were elated by their newfound freedom.
They also felt secure that once they arrived in Syria, they would quickly obtain visas to the United States and start a new life. That hope soon proved unfounded.
After spending more than a week and a half unable to obtain a visa to the United States or to any country in Europe, they realized they may have traded in the reality of being prisoners in their own country for being refugees in another. And as El-Gohary watches the weeks pass and his resources dwindle, he said the stress is almost unbearable.
"I feel like we've stepped out of a prison cell and into a fire," he said. "We are in very, very bad conditions … My daughter and I divide the bottles of water to live, because there is no income."
Maher Ahmad El-Mo'otahssem Bellah El-Gohary, 58, gained notoriety in Egypt after he sued the government in August 2008 to gain the right to change the religion listed on his state-issued ID card from Islam to Christianity. In Egypt, ID cards play a critical role in a person's life, being used for everything from opening a bank account and renting an apartment to receiving medical care.
The listed religious affiliation, whether a card-holder subscribes to it or not, also determines whether the person is subject to Islamic civil law. The listed religious designation determines what state-mandated religion classes minors are required to take in school. El-Gohary said he filed the suit so his daughter, then 15, could opt out of the religious classes and would not be subject to the persecution he suffered when he became a Christian in his 20s.
It is a crime punishable by imprisonment to have no ID card in Egypt.
The suit sparked outrage throughout Egypt. Both El-Gohary and his daughter were publicly branded apostates in a country where 84 percent of Muslims think those who leave Islam should be executed, according to a study released by the Pew Research Center in December. The same month the suit was filed in 2008, El-Gohary and his daughter were forced into hiding.
For two-and-a-half years, El-Gohary shifted back and forth among several apartments in Cairo and Alexandria, usually once every month. Even in hiding, the two were harassed regularly by Egypt's dreaded State Security Intelligence service (SSI) and assaulted repeatedly by others, including someone pouring acid on Dina, El-Gohary said.
While in hiding, El-Gohary tried repeatedly to leave Egypt, but officials at the Ministry of the Interior blocked him at every attempt. On at least one occasion, they seized his passport. In December 2010, after a long legal battle, El-Gohary got a court decision ordering the Ministry of the Interior to allow him to travel, but he said it still took several weeks for the government to comply with the order; the Jan. 25-Feb. 11 revolution didn't hurt, El-Gohary said.
Out of Egypt
After the national demonstrations that led to the removal of both President Hosni Mubarak and Minister of Interior Habib Al-Adly, El-Gohary and his daughter went to Cairo International Airport on Feb. 22 to leave the county. They came prepared with their newly issued passports, the court order and myriad documents to prove they had the right to leave the country. Even so, authorities took the two aside for interrogation at the airport.
"My daughter and I went to the counter of the airport to the manager, then they took us to the SSI," El-Gohary said. "We spent an hour talking to an officer trying to tell him, 'We spent ages during Habib Al-Adly's time, and even now after the revolution, we don't have the right to leave?'"
According to El-Gohary, the guard asked him if he really wanted to leave the country.
"Yes," El-Gohary replied. "I have a court order against Al-Adly, and I have the right to leave and the freedom to travel outside the country." As if to add insult to more than two years of injury, the SSI officers told El-Gohary that Egypt was "their country" and to "come back anytime you want to."
El-Gohary credits the revolution as the reason he was allowed to leave Egypt, saying it was a miracle "from God."
They chose to go to Syria because Egyptian citizens are not required to have visas to visit there. After contact with a U.S. organization that concentrates on religious freedom, El-Gohary expected it would be easy to get a visa to the United States, where his wife lives. But he said he has been unable to obtain an entry visa there or to any country where he will feel safe. He went to a U.N. office in Syria seeking assistance; he was given an appointment to come back on April 20.
"I wasn't expecting, after all this suffering and all these years, that…" El-Gohary said, cutting himself off. "The series of persecution is not finished."
Although they don't live under the same type of threats as they did in Egypt, El-Gohary and Dina now live in an apartment where they still watch everything they say and everyone with whom they talk. They still spend much of their time trapped between the four walls of their apartment because Syria, El-Gohary said, is a country where converts to Christianity from Islam are persecuted.
"The danger is still there," El-Gohary said. "We don't get out of the house. We don't meet people. We don't tell people what we are doing or talk to them about our situation. Because we don't want someone to say, 'Why are you applying to the U.N.?' There are still a lot of enemies."
Dina, now 17, said that although leaving Egypt was "like a miracle," she is devastated by the prospect of having to spend more time with her life on hold. She said she is just as scared in Syria as she was in Egypt.
"We're really, really tired of all this suffering," she said. "I've lost two years of my life. I want to finish school."
Muslim converts to Christianity in Syria were sometimes forced to leave their place of residence due to societal pressure last year, according to the U.S. Department of State's 2010 International Religious Freedom Report. While there is no official state religion in Syria, the constitution requires that the president be Muslim and stipulates that Islamic law is a principal source of legislation.
With strict monitoring and curtailing of militant Islam, the government in Syria has long been considered a moderate regime. The government's fear of violent responses by Islamic extremists to increasing conversions to Christianity, however, was at least partially responsible for the closing of six buildings where Christians were meeting last year, according to Christian support organization Open Doors. Noting that several Christians were arrested and interrogated in 2010, the organization's World Watch List bumped Syria's ranking up to 38th place among nations in which persecution of Christians takes place, from position 41 the previous year.
Syria is 90 percent Muslim, and 6.34 percent of its 22.5 million population is Christian, according to Operation World.
Though El-Gohary and his daughter have a dark outlook on their current situation, they are still grateful.
"Without God's love, we would have been dead by now," El-Gohary said. "Getting out of Egypt itself was a victory from God."
Dina said she also is thankful, but that as she gets older she is becoming increasingly preoccupied by one wish.
"I want to get out so I can finish my studies," she said. "I want to go into a church and out of a church without being scared of being killed."
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EGYPT: COURT DENIES RIGHT TO CONVERT TO SECOND CHRISTIAN
Posted on June 18, 2009 by particularkev
Maher El-Gohary provides requested documents, but judge dismisses them.
ISTANBUL, June 16 (Compass Direct News) – A Cairo judge on Saturday (June 13) rejected an Egyptian's convert's attempt to change his identification card's religious status from Muslim to Christian, the second failed attempt to exercise constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom by a Muslim-born convert to Christianity.
For Maher El-Gohary, who has been attacked on the street, subjected to death threats and driven into hiding as a result of opening his case 10 months ago, Saturday's outcome provided nothing in the way of consolation.
"I am disappointed with what happened and shocked with the decision, because I went to great lengths and through a great deal of hardship," he said.
El-Gohary follows Mohammed Ahmed Hegazy as only the second Muslim-born convert in Egypt to request such a change. El-Gohary filed suit against the Ministry of the Interior for rejecting his application in August last year.
In contrast to their angry chants and threats in previous hearings, lawyers representing the government sat quietly as Judge Hamdy Yasin read his decision in a session that lasted no more than 10 minutes, according to one of El-Gohary's lawyers, Nabil Ghobreyal.
The judge rejected El-Gohary's application even though the convert provided a baptism certificate and a letter of acceptance into the Coptic Orthodox Church that the judge had demanded.
"The judge said he will not accept the [baptism] certificate from Cyprus or the letter from Father Matthias [Nasr Manqarious]," said Ghobreyal. "Even if he gets a letter from the pope, the judge said he would not accept it, because the remit of the church is to deal with Christians, not to deal with Muslims who convert to Christianity; this is outside their remit."
El-Gohary sounded perplexed and frustrated as he spoke by telephone with Compass about the verdict.
"The judge asked for letters of acceptance and baptism," he said. "It was really not easy to get them, in fact it was very hard, but if he was not going to use these things, why did he ask for them in the first place? We complied with everything and got it for him, and then it was refused. What was the point of all this?"
A full explanation of Yasin's decision to deny the request will be published later this week. The judge's comments on Saturday, however, provided some indication of what the report will contain.
"The judge alluded to the absence of laws pertaining to conversion from Islam to Christianity and suggested an article be drawn up to deal with this gap in legislation," said Ghobreyal.
High Court Appeal
Such a law would be favorable to converts. Thus far, hopeful signs for converts include a recent decision to grant Baha'is the right to place a dash in the religion section of their ID cards and a High Court ruling on June 9 stating that "reverts" (Christians wishing to revert to Christianity after embracing Islam) are not in breach of law and should be allowed to re-convert.
At the age of 16 all Egyptians are required to obtain an ID that states their religion as Muslim, Christian or Jewish. These cards are necessary for virtually every aspect of life, from banking, to education and medical treatment.
No Egyptian clergyman has issued a baptismal certificate to a convert, but El-Gohary was able to travel to Cyprus to get a baptismal certificate from a well-established church. In April the Coptic, Cairo-based Manqarious recognized this certificate and issued him a letter of acceptance, or "conversion certificate," welcoming him to the Coptic Orthodox community.
El-Gohary's baptismal certificate caused a fury among the nation's Islamic lobby, as it led to the first official church recognition of a convert. A number of fatwas (religious edicts) have since been issued against El-Gohary and Manqarious.
El-Gohary's case could go before the High Court, his lawyer said.
"This is not the end; this is just the beginning," said Ghobreyal. "I am going to a higher court, I have ideas and I am going to fight all the way through. It's a long road."
Ghobreyal's tenacious attitude is matched by his client's.
"I am going to persevere, I will not give up," said El-Gohary. "Appealing is the next step and I am ready for the steps after that. I am going to bring this to the attention of the whole world."
The judge had received a report from the State Council, a consultative body of Egypt's Administrative Court, which expressed outrage at El-Gohary's "audacity" to request a change in the religious designation on his ID. The report claimed that his case was a threat to societal order and violated sharia (Islamic law).
El-Gohary's lawyers noted that the report is not based on Egypt's civil law, nor does it uphold the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights that Egypt has signed. It stated that those who leave Islam, "apostates" such as El-Gohary, should be subject to the death sentence.
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EGYPT: CONVERT AIRS DECLARATION OF PRIEST'S INNOCENCE
Posted on May 23, 2009 by particularkev
Christian woman tells TV audience imprisoned clergyman did not know of false ID.
ISTANBUL, May 22 (Compass Direct News) – An Egyptian convert from Islam who forged Christian identification papers and later used them to marry a Coptic man has appeared on a television show declaring the innocence of a priest serving a five-year sentence for marrying the couple.
The priest's lawyers, Ramses El-Naggar and Peter Ramses, submitted a recording of convert Mariam Nabil's TV interview to Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud in support of their appeal of the Rev. Mattaos Wahba's conviction for conducting a marriage ceremony with false documents.
"We are sure that if we can review that case in front of the high court, Father Mattaos will be free, because the decision from the court is the wrong decision," said Ramses. "But until now we didn't present the case."
The priest of Archangel Michael Church at Kerdasa, in Geza, and two other men were charged with converting Nabil and aiding her in forging a Christian ID card. The other two men are in hiding.
Wahba was arrested last October, with the added charge of knowingly conducting a marriage ceremony with false documents. He was convicted of this charge and sentenced to five years in Cairo's Tora prison.
Nabil maintains that Wahba had no involvement in obtaining the false documents and was not aware that they were forged when he married the couple.
Safwat El-Baiday, spokesman for the Evangelical Church in Egypt, said priests should not be made responsible for verifying documents.
"We as a church do not believe that a priest who sees the documents and the witnesses can be put in jail," El-Baiday said. "If there are witnesses and a bride and a groom, it is not our job to investigate if their documents are right or wrong."
The conviction met with a public outcry, and international Coptic rights groups have petitioned Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to release Wahba.
Consequences of Conversion
Despite the risk to herself, her husband and his family, Nabil went public with her story on April 24, appearing on the TV show "Daring Questions," which is produced outside of Egypt and airs weekly on the Christian Al-Hayat station.
Nabil, born Reham Abdel Aziz, originally converted from Islam to Christianity in 2004. After suffering harsh treatment from her family due to her conversion, she sought to leave them and live freely as a Christian, leading to her need for new identification documents. Using the birth certificate of a deceased woman, she managed to obtain a government identification card stating her religion as Christian in 2004.
Later she fell in love and married. Shortly after their marriage in 2006, Nabil and her husband fled Egypt to escape her family members, who had threatened to kill her. When Nabil's relatives learned of her marriage, they informed police, who discovered the forgery. She left Egypt before the falsified ID was discovered, and authorities still seek to arrest her and her husband for forged documents.
The host of "Daring Questions" told Compass via telephone that because there is no legal means for converts from Islam to designate it on identification papers, they are often left with no option but to break the law. In Egypt, a Christian man is not allowed to marry a Muslim woman.
"From one side I am against forging documents, but from the other side I think that the government is pushing Christians from a Muslim background to forge documents," he said. "They give them no choice."
Officially changing one's religious status away from Islam is not legally possible in Egypt. Two Christian converts involved in a legal battle for this right, Maher El-Gohary and Mohammed Hegazy, are in hiding under threat of death.
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EGYPT: CONVERT ARRESTED FOR MARRYING CHRISTIAN
Couple goes into hiding as police place Islamic law over Egyptian penal code.
ISTANBUL, April 23 (Compass Direct News) – Christian convert Raheal Henen Mussa and her Coptic husband are hiding from police and her Muslim family for violating an article of Islamic law (sharia) that doesn't exist in the Egyptian penal code.
Police arrested Mussa, 22, on April 13 for marrying Sarwat George Ryiad in a customary marriage (zawag al 'urfi), an unregistered form of matrimony in Egypt made without witnesses. It has gained popularity among Egyptian youth but is not sanctioned by most Islamic scholars.
The two signed a marriage contract between themselves. Only Ryiad and their attorney have a copy. Police have not obtained a copy of the contract, but they used its existence as a pretext for arresting Mussa.
According to a strict interpretation of sharia, Muslim women are not permitted to marry non-Muslim men, although the opposite is allowed, and Article 2 of the Egyptian Constitution stipulates that sharia is the basis for legislation.
The two have not committed a crime according to Egyptian law since they didn't seek official marriage status, but police and Mussa's family are pursuing them because they violated Islamic law, advocacy groups say.
"They have not violated the law, but the family and the police are applying their own unwritten law," said Helmy Guirguis, president of the U.K. Coptic Association. "Islamic law interprets that if a Muslim girl marries a non-Muslim man, even on paper, they are breaking the law of God, not the law of man."
The two could not get married in an official ceremony since Mussa is considered a Muslim by birth, and changing one's religious status away from Islam is impossible in Egypt. A lawsuit is pending, however, for a Muslim-born man to change his status on his identity card.
Formerly known as Samr Mohamed Hansen, Mussa converted to Christianity three years ago, before marrying Ryiad. Police arrested her as she came home from her workplace at a Cairo salon. They identified her by the Coptic cross tattoo on her right arm – a common mark among Copts.
She was transferred to a station operated by the secret police, where she stayed until Sunday (April 19), when her family took her. While in their custody, her family completely burned off her cross tattoo, according to the U.K. Coptic Association.
Mussa escaped from them on Tuesday (April 21). She and her husband fled Cairo and are in hiding. If the two are caught, advocates fear, they could be forcibly separated, arrested and beaten, with Mussa being returned to her family.
Sharia influence in Egyptian law also means that Muslims have the right (hisbah) to file a lawsuit against someone who has violated the "rights of God." This provision, advocates fear, means Mussa and Ryiad's unsanctioned marriage could make them targets of Muslim extremists wishing to apply the full extent of this law.
The most famous example of hisbah's application came in 1995, when Cairo University professor Nasr Abuh Zayd was declared an "infidel" and forcibly divorced from his wife for criticizing orthodox views of the Quran.
Ryiad and Mussa were not married in a Coptic ceremony, as many churches avoid marrying registered Muslims to non-Muslims for fear of being targeted by authorities and Islamic extremists.
"Nobody [in Egypt] can declare the marriage of a Coptic man to a Muslim girl," attorney Naguib Gabriel told Compass. "It would be very dangerous to the life of a priest."
Marriage Woes
Mussa and Ryiad's case is the latest in a spurt of recent arrests and lawsuits against those who don't adhere to the Islamic-influenced dictum that Muslim women may not marry non-Muslim men.
In October 2008, a Cairo court handed Father Metaos Wahba a five-year prison sentence for issuing a marriage certificate to a Christian man and a Muslim convert to Christianity. He stated that he did not know the woman's papers stating her religion as "Christian" were a forgery.
Human rights groups have called on Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak to release Fr. Wahba, as Egypt is a signatory to the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which allows full religious freedom, including conversion.
Mussa's jailing mirrored that of Christian convert Martha Samuel Makkar, 24, detained last December at a Cairo airport for attempting to flee the country with her husband. She was charged with carrying forged documents that listed her religion as Christian and incarcerated for a month.
A judge granted her bail but not before threatening to kill her for leaving Islam (see "Judge Tells of Desire to Kill Christian," Jan. 27).
Nadia Tawfiq, the lawyer in charge of Makkar's chase, said many arrests and trials in Egypt result from laws that assign people social status according to the religion on their identity cards.
She said the best hope for change is a May 2 court hearing of Maher El-Gohary, a Muslim-born man who is fighting to have his Christian religion recognized on his official documents. If he succeeds, he would be the first person in the country to be granted that right.
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EGYPT: ONE CONVERT'S NEVER-ENDING STRUGGLE
Snares abound as Christian seeks to protect wife, baby and future faithful.
ISTANBUL, September 12 (Compass Direct News) – Egypt's most famous convert to Christianity is a prisoner of his own home, hiding for his life.
After Mohammed Ahmed Hegazy, 25, became the first Muslim-born Egyptian to file a case a year ago for his identification card to reflect his newfound faith, his face has been shown on TV channels and newspapers. Anywhere he goes, he might be recognized by fanatical Islamists bent on killing him – besides his own family members, who also want him dead.
In the last eight months, since an Egyptian court closed his case in a Jan. 29 court ruling that declared it was against Islamic law for a Muslim to leave Islam, Hegazy has had to move five times with his wife and baby daughter.
"The verdict for my case was discriminatory [on the part] of the judge," Hegazy told Compass in an interview last month. The judge based his decision on Islamic law, which says one can convert "up" in the Muslim hierarchy of religions – from Judaism and Christianity to Islam – but not vice versa.
But months after the final court decision, even after the issue is fizzing out in the media, Hegazy said that his life is in danger – as is that of every convert in Egypt.
Living on the Run
"The most difficult thing for me is that the lives of my wife and daughter are in danger all the time," Hegazy said.
In one instance a year ago, he and his family barely escaped alive. Last October, he received a phone call from a friend who told him that one of his own lawyers had given authorities his address. His friend told him he might have to move in the next few days and to be careful.
"I had a feeling we should move," said Hegazy, explaining that he listens for God's voice on such decisions. "So we moved immediately, and the next night the fundamentalists came to attack us."
A group of Islamists camped around his former house for days. They also set fire to the apartment of Hegazy's next-door neighbor, killing her. He said the neighbor, whose name was withheld for the security of her relatives, was the best friend of his wife and had helped them in their ordeal.
"The church denied that she was killed, and it was never reported publicly," he said.
The convert's hope is that one day he can get his family out of the country, but without passports that is a remote possibility. Passports are issued in the hometown of the citizen.
Both Hegazy and his wife are well-known and unwelcome in their hometowns.
His wife would need to go to El-Minya to apply for a passport, he said, "and as soon as she goes there she will be killed. Even if it's not family, others will do it, so I can't take that risk."
Hegazy's father has also filed to gain custody of his baby granddaughter so that she is raised Muslim. He has also given authorities false information, such as asserting that Hegazy hasn't served his military service, and has publicly said that if his son doesn't recant his faith he will kill him.
"Many lawyers volunteered to file a case against me," he said.
Persecuted Converts
Hegazy risked venturing out of his house on a hot afternoon in August to speak to Compass. At a restaurant, he looked over his shoulder nervously to make sure he wasn't followed.
What the convert-turned-political activist really wanted to talk about was the situation of thousands of converts in his country who suffer discrimination by the state, family and even local churches, he said, because the country's constitution is based on sharia (Islamic law).
"The most important thing is to show how converts are persecuted and how they are suffering in Egypt," said Hegazy. "I want to clarify this because converts are persecuted by society and the church and their families."
Hegazy minces no words when it comes to what he calls the inability of the church to stand up to the forces of government and Islamic society in order to defend the rights of converts.
"The church in Egypt is impotent and cowardly," he said, noting church leaders who do not stand up for religious rights and claim they do not evangelize and baptize converts. He cited Coptic Bishop Bishoy, who said that his church is against "proselytizing" and spreading the gospel and that the Coptic Church is not doing it. Coptic churches in Egypt – Catholic and evangelical – publicly claim they do not baptize converts, each blaming the other for doing so, while priests and pastors are known to baptize in secret so as not to provoke violent reactions from Islamists and the government.
"The priest that baptized me refused to see me for a whole year," said Hegazy. "Not one priest is standing up to say, 'I baptize converts.'"
Hegazy said that reactions like this leave converts feeling marginalized.
"You have to understand that the church is treating converts as second-class citizens. The only heroic thing they could do was baptize me secretly," said Hegazy, who had to fight to get a baptismal certificate, as do so many other converts. "Can you imagine how a convert feels? Should we accuse converts of being discriminatory or sectarian if they want to establish their own church?"
Converts, Hegazy said, are attacked on all fronts of Egyptian society. "The government is Islamic, the society is Islamic, and the church is weak," he said. "Converts are stuck between all of these, between the jaws of the government and society."
A Little Help
Hegazy and other religious rights activists believe that individual cases such as his or that of Maher El-Gohary, filed last month, alone cannot gain legal rights for converts who wish to become officially Christian and accepted in society.
"I don't believe my case is going to be resolved," said Hegazy. "I'm not pessimistic, but if we are dealing with a personal case we can't achieve anything. Instead we have to talk about the broad issue and discuss conversion as a big case, because there are so many believers persecuted."
As have other activists, Hegazy said that if Egyptian converts living overseas and in Egypt were to file a joint case they would have more leverage. But they need greater support from human rights groups, which are not pushing enough for convert cases, he said.
"I can't understand how we have so many human rights organizations, and Christian ones, and no one is taking any action," he said.
Hegazy suggested that human rights organizations should publicly advocate a law that supports freedom of conversion, including committees to monitor developments. If such a law were in place, he said, the Egyptian government would stop using Muslim fundamentalist reactions as an excuse to avoid enforcing justice.
"This way the government can't say, 'We don't [change religion on identification cards] because of fundamentalism, it will upset our society,' because there will be a law in place," he said.
Additionally, he said, converts must also fight against lack of action by human rights organizations.
"The problem is we're struggling with the church, the society, our families," he said. "So we don't need an extra struggle with human rights organizations."
Hegazy and his lawyer are still waiting for a court date for his appeal. They applied for it in February.
"Every week we go to the court to find out when the appeal date is set for," said Hegazy's lawyer, Gamal Eid of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information.
At a recent court visit they were told to come back in October, leading them to believe that perhaps they will get a court date that month.
Hegazy said he is ready to fight his case to the end. Already, he said, his case has made one gain for Egypt's converts: the recognition that there are such persons as "converts," and they are in the public debate.
"Nowadays, the word 'convert' is being used in the media here – never before!" said Hegazy. "That's progress."
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Home Archives Other Articles A Profile of People of South Asian Origin in Kenya and South Africa
A Profile of People of South Asian Origin in Kenya and South Africa
People of South Asian origin in Kenya and South Africa are united in a shared history of the circulation of commodities, people and ideas across the Indian Ocean. Sketching a profile of the similarities and differences between Kenyan and South African Asian communities is a complex task because of the multitude of caste, class, language, religion and territorial belonging. What is certain is that each country's unique political and historical context has influenced which of those markers of identity have importance today and which have faded away. Although the Kenyan Asian community have more mobile forms of belonging beyond Kenya than their South African counterparts, both have in common tremendous diversity, on-going struggles over a dialogue with African nationalism and question marks over the future of their communities.
The movement of South Asians to East and South Africa originate to varying degrees in the labour demands of the British Empire. In Kenya, a pre-existing mobile population of merchants from Gujarat (and elsewhere) formed the basis for the expansion of the Indian community under the British. In contrast, there were very few people of Indian origin in South Africa before labour shortages in the sugar plantations of colonial Natal brought cheap indentured labourers under conditions of near-slavery. The first ship brought Tamil and Telugu speaking Hindus and Christians from Madras in 1860, and continued until 1911 with Hindi-speaking arrivals from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The majority stayed to form the foundation of the current community as dukawallahs and civil servants in the colonial government. Along with the discovery of gold and diamonds, this large Indian population proved attractive for 'free' or 'passenger' Indians (so called as they paid their own passage from India). The majority who arrived were Urdu, Gujarati and Marathi-speaking Muslim merchants from Kathiawar and United Province and along with a few Gujarati-speaking Hindus. Although the 'passenger' Indians initially formed only 10% of the Indian population, their descendents now comprise 30%. In Kenya, whilst cheap indentured labour was also required for the construction of the Uganda railway, the majority of the 32,000 labourers returned to India once their period of indenture was over. Instead, it was the non-indentured Indians from Goa, the Punjab, Gujarat and elsewhere attracted by the opportunities opened up by the railway that formed the majority basis of the East African Asian community.
Despite tremendous religious and cultural variations, Indians in both Kenya and South Africa were subject to the restrictions of a tripartite racial system that assigned different rights and privileges to each group. In both the Kenyan and South African three-tiered racial structure, Asians were used as 'middlemen', an intermediary buffer group between the white colonizers and the black Africans. Privileges in both countries included a higher standard of education, housing and healthcare, and access to middle management and clerical jobs. Although there were some restrictions on Kenyan Asian ownership of land, particularly in the White Highlands and in agricultural areas, compared to South Africa there were vastly fewer restrictions placed on movement. Kenyan Asians were able to circulate freely within and beyond Kenya and the strong trading links with India and elsewhere in East Africa were beneficial to the colonial economy and actively encouraged. In the aftermath of the exodus following post-independence Africanisation policies Kenyan Asians were able to maintain strong ties, and therefore cultural roots, to family in India, the UK, Canada and the USA. Moreover, the continued circulation of people between these countries has allowed the specific communities that make up the Kenyan Asian population to consolidate and recreate their ethnically exclusive cultures.
In contrast, the entrepreneurial skills exhibited by Gujarati traders and descendents of former indentured labourers worked against the Indian community in South Africa when it came to the triple racial system of Apartheid. The economic competition presented by the Indian community brought them into conflict with the white authorities. This became expressed in racially aggressive policies limiting land ownership, tenure, trading rights and migration. The restrictions of apartheid segregation policies culminated in the notorious Group Areas Act of 1950 which saw the city centre of Durban rezoned exclusively for whites. Indians were uprooted from their settled communities to townships on the outskirts of the city. Moreover, India and other countries severed travel, economic and diplomatic exchange with South Africa between 1946 and 1990. The result of this embargo period was the economic, cultural and political isolation of the South African Indians from India and other overseas Indian communities.
As specific ties to homes, families, businesses and villages faded during the Apartheid years, so did Indians' ability to speak an Indian language. In contrast to Kenya where language remains an important means of communication in homes and workplaces, in South Africa a recent piece of research revealed that only 5% of Indian people spoke an Indian language at home. Even amongst the Gujarati business community, business is done in English, Urdu and increasingly Arabic. The only exposure to Indian languages for younger people is the world of Bollywood, Tamil cinema and contemporary Indian dance music emanating from London, Toronto and New York. Even as Indian languages themselves have almost disappeared, languages continue to be used in South Africa to define people's identities. Unlike in Kenya where a specific region of origin in India is a more important marker of a Kenyan-Asian's identity than language, in South Africa language is important to the definition of specific Indian communities (Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi). Although people's identification with and ties to specific geographic areas in India may have eroded, the language of Indian South African's ancestors mark, in the main, religion, general geographical origin and by association socio-economic background.
In the contemporary period although most of the original class borders between indentured and passenger Indians' descendants have disappeared there remains a socio-economic hierarchy inside the South African Indian community. At the top is an elite group of business-orientated Indians, many of whom acquired large amounts of wealth and social standing during Apartheid based on exploitative relationships with other Indians as well as Africans. This was supported by the apartheid regime, which was keen to create a conservative Indian political elite as a buffer for the anxieties of the rest of the Indian community. As in Kenya, politically conservative and accommodating Indian business owners became the collective stereotype for Indians in general as responsible for the exploitation and domination of Africans.
Notwithstanding the activities of a small group of lawyers and trade unionists, the Kenyan-Asian community on the whole remained politically conservative and insular in the pre-independence struggle. This contrasts with South Africa, where the conservative politics of the South African Indian merchant class jarred with the emergence of a radical group of Indian intellectuals, businesspeople and manufacturers alongside disaffected working class Indians. There was a radical shift in Indian politics from the 1970s to a more aggressive and allied front with other non-Europeans. Many South African Indians actively participated in the ANC's antiapartheid movement, others in antigovernment uprisings and many industrialists helped set up African-run factories. The desire to cut across racial boundaries to form a united alliance against apartheid meant articulating an alternative identity for the community not as simply Indian but as black, Coloured, and above all, as African.
Although the historical presence of Asians in Kenya goes back further than in South Africa, the collective commitment of Kenyan-Asians to the post-colonial nation remains, in general, somewhat hesitant. In post-independence Kenya, as in post-apartheid South Africa, Asians were affected by various discriminatory employment, property and trading laws targeting the disproportionate concentration of wealth that resulted, in part, from their relatively privileged position in the colonial economy. Kenyan-Asians also continued to maintain close family ties with Indians from their respective communities in India and Britain throughout the colonial period. With a tempting offer of citizenship from Britain the majority of Kenyan Asians chose to leave for the UK and elsewhere in the Commonwealth. The influx of new Indian entrepreneurs from independent India and the rest of East Africa have also expanded the opportunities for the Kenyan Asian community to retain fluid and mobile connections to family in multiple places at once. As a lack of effective leadership, representation in the media and will to engage in politics continues to hamper political representation, Kenyan Asians will continue to be reluctant to stake their future fully in Kenya.
The Indian commitment to South Africa remains in post-apartheid times despite the legacy of mutual suspicion that also informs their dialogue with African nationalism. Although economic divides exist within the South African Indian community the visible economic wealth of Asians in South Africa, particularly in the exclusive gated residences in formerly white areas, has not dispelled the perception of their cushioned position in South Africa's economy. On the other hand, South African Indians face declining welfare grants, increasing crime rates, job losses and lack of university places from the restructuring of labour laws to empower the African majority. Despite these similarities in the realities of post-independence and post-apartheid citizenship, Indians have cultivated a permanent bond with South Africa, a country they helped –and continue to help- author. Though South African Indians are keen to assert their individual Indian identity and culture, India itself is mostly a dreamed-about place of ancestor's memories, Bollywood movies and nostalgic traditions: In the everyday realities of South African existence, Indians actively engage across racial divides in political, civic, economic and social life. As the boundaries of the diverse Indian culture and identity blur and a small but increasing number of especially young South-African Indians seek a life in the UK and Australasia, questions remain as to how national and community life will continue to balance.
Dr Jen Dickinson is a development geographer at the University of Leicester, who examines the spatial politics and historical transformation of social and economic life in post-colonial contexts.
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  #define TOCPP(cls) Py_XDECREF(GLUE(cls, _toCpp_py)); GLUE(cls, _toCpp_py) = NULL;
  #include "glue/classGlue.h"

  Py_XDECREF(glue); glue=NULL;

  qDebug() << "fin py...";
  Py_Finalize();
  qDebug() << "fin py ok";
}

//ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ//

void script_set_main_window(MainWindow *mwin)
{
  pycon("Adding Sproxel objects to script...");

  PyObject *mod=PyImport_AddModule("sproxel");
  PyObject *o;
  bool gotErrors=false;

  o=QMainWindow_toPy(mwin);
  if (!o) { gotErrors=true; PyErr_Print(); o=Py_None; Py_INCREF(o); }
  PyModule_AddObject(mod, "main_window", o);

  o=PyList_New(1);
  PyList_SetItem(o, 0, qstr_to_py(exe_dir.absoluteFilePath("plugins")));
  PyModule_AddObject(mod, "plugin_pathes", o);

  PyModule_AddObject(mod, "undo", undo_manager_to_py(mwin->undoManager()));

  //== TODO: add more components to script

  // init plugin pathes
  if (py_init_plugin_pathes)
  {
    PyObject *res=PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs(py_init_plugin_pathes, NULL);
    if (!res) PyErr_Print();
    else Py_DECREF(res);
  }

  pycon("Sproxel objects: %s", gotErrors ? "FAILED to add to script" : "all added");
}

//ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ//

void scan_plugins()
{
  if (py_scan_plugins)
  {
    PyObject *res=PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs(py_scan_plugins, NULL);
    if (!res) PyErr_Print();
    else Py_DECREF(res);
  }
}

void register_plugins()
{
  if (py_register_plugins)
  {
    PyObject *res=PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs(py_register_plugins, NULL);
    if (!res) PyErr_Print();
    else Py_DECREF(res);
  }
}

void unregister_plugins()
{
  if (py_unregister_plugins)
  {
    PyObject *res=PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs(py_unregister_plugins, NULL);
    if (!res) PyErr_Print();
    else Py_DECREF(res);
  }
}

//ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ//

bool run_script(const QString &fn)
{
  QString filename=exe_dir.filePath(fn);
  #ifdef _WIN32
    FILE *file=_wfopen(filename.utf16(), L"r");
  #else
    FILE *file=fopen(filename.toUtf8(), "r");
  #endif
  if (file)
  {
    pycon("Starting script %S", filename.unicode());

    PyObject *mod=PyImport_AddModule("__main__");
    PyObject *modDict=PyModule_GetDict(mod);

    PyObject *o=PyRun_File(file, qPrintable(filename), Py_file_input, modDict, modDict);
    fclose(file);
    Py_XDECREF(o);

    if (PyErr_Occurred())
    {
      PyErr_Print();
      return false;
    }

    return true;
  }
  else
  {
    pycon("Failed to open script file %S", filename.unicode());
    return false;
  }
}
#endif

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TropIQ receives 1 million USD from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop ground-breaking idea.
The Dutch biotech company TropIQ Health Sciences receives 1 million USD from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a method for identification of a novel type of malaria drug. TropIQ uses glowing parasites and barcoded mosquito meals to accelerate the discovery of novel medicines. This innovative approach is unique in the world. With this new method, the Dutch start-up responded to a call from the foundation for innovative research ideas.TropIQ Health Sciences exploits an industrial drug discovery platform for discovery of a novel type of malaria drug. CEO Koen Dechering: "we test whether compounds block development of parasites in the mosquito midgut. That will stop transmission of malaria through the mosquito. Such compounds are a prerequisite for elimination of malaria." Current methods for identification of such molecules are very labour intensive and impede the development of a novel medicine. TropIQ will solve this issue by implementing an innovative screening approach. Barcoded bloodmeals and quenched light TropIQ will accelerate the discovery of novel drugs by feeding mosquitoes on a blood meal that contains light-emitting malaria parasites. In addition, they will add a test compound and a unique molecular barcode to each bloodmeal. The barcode is carried by a bacterium that colonizes the mosquito midgut. A compound that blocks parasite development will shut off the light in the mosquito midgut. The barcode then allows a rapid identification of the active compound. This compound is a potential new drug. Dechering: "This innovation allows us to test larger sets of compounds. That increases the chance that we will find a novel transmission-blocking drug. The support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is instrumental in further development of this exciting technology."
TropIQ Health Sciences is a spin-off of the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. It offers a technology platform for research on novel malaria interventions and works with pharmaceutical industries and research institutes across the globe. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, based in Seattle, invests in innovative research to improve the health of people most in need.


Discussion in 'Archived Threads 2001-2004' started by scott trigg, Nov 11, 2001.
380wpc into how many channels and at 8 or 4 ohms? How old is this amp?
that is in to 8 ohms the amp is from 89-90 it is in mint condition it is like it just came out of carver's factory it is that new.
sorry it is a 2 channel amp.


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Celebrities · August 11, 2021
Actress Liteboho Molise, who plays Teboho on Muvhango, is leaving the show.
Teboho, the wife of Mulalo Mukwevho, played by Sydney Ramakuwela on the SABC2 soap opera, is leaving the show for greener pastures on Mzansi Magic. Her character on Muvhango is probably one of the most-loved villains on the show.
The 31-year-old actress, who studied political science at the National University of Lesotho, was born and raised in the Mountain Kingdom's Butha-buthe district. She was scouted by Dingaan Khumalo, who plays James Motsamai on the show.
The show has opened many doors for the actress, and according to sources close to the situation, Mzansi Magic has been following the actress and finally made her an offer she could not refuse.
"We don't know whether she is joining The River or The Queen.
All we know is that she is going to be part of the Mzansi Magic family, that's what she told us," said another source.
Molise, who has bagged several cosmetics endorsements including one with Black Like Me, was coy when asked about the latest developments. "Please wait forget formalities to take place. It is too early to talk at this stage."
Molise has been with the soapie for almost a decade and her character has grown to be one of the most recognisable on the show.
The beauty also does voiceovers for Lesedi FM.
When called for comment, Muvhango's publicist Thanduxolo Jindela would neither confirm nor deny that Molise is leaving.
"All I can say is that people must watch Muvhango, there is going to be a lot of interesting and exciting developments," Jindela said.
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/**
 * BjyAuthorize Module (https://github.com/bjyoungblood/BjyAuthorize)
 *
 * @link https://github.com/bjyoungblood/BjyAuthorize for the canonical source repository
 * @license http://framework.zend.com/license/new-bsd New BSD License
 */

namespace BjyAuthorize\Guard;

use BjyAuthorize\Provider\Rule\ProviderInterface as RuleProviderInterface;
use BjyAuthorize\Provider\Resource\ProviderInterface as ResourceProviderInterface;

use Zend\EventManager\EventManagerInterface;
use Zend\Mvc\MvcEvent;
use Zend\ServiceManager\ServiceLocatorInterface;
use Zend\Mvc\ApplicationInterface;
use BjyAuthorize\Service\Authorize;
use Zend\Http\Request as HttpRequest;

/**
 * Controller Guard listener, allows checking of permissions
 * during {@see \Zend\Mvc\MvcEvent::EVENT_DISPATCH}
 *
 * @author Ben Youngblood <bx.youngblood@gmail.com>
 */
class Controller implements GuardInterface, RuleProviderInterface, ResourceProviderInterface
{
    /**
     * @var ServiceLocatorInterface
     */
    protected $serviceLocator;

    /**
     * @var array[]
     */
    protected $rules = array();

    /**
     * @var \Zend\Stdlib\CallbackHandler[]
     */
    protected $listeners = array();

    /**
     * @param array                   $rules
     * @param ServiceLocatorInterface $serviceLocator
     */
    public function __construct(array $rules, ServiceLocatorInterface $serviceLocator)
    {
        $this->serviceLocator = $serviceLocator;

        foreach ($rules as $rule) {
            if (!is_array($rule['roles'])) {
                $rule['roles'] = array($rule['roles']);
            }

            $action                     = isset($rule['action']) ? $rule['action'] : null;
            $resourceName               = $this->getResourceName($rule['controller'], $action);
            $this->rules[$resourceName] = $rule['roles'];
        }
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    public function attach(EventManagerInterface $events)
    {
        $this->listeners[] = $events->attach(MvcEvent::EVENT_ROUTE, array($this, 'onDispatch'), -1000);
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    public function detach(EventManagerInterface $events)
    {
        foreach ($this->listeners as $index => $listener) {
            if ($events->detach($listener)) {
                unset($this->listeners[$index]);
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    public function getResources()
    {
        $resources = array();

        foreach (array_keys($this->rules) as $resource) {
            $resources[] = $resource;
        }

        return $resources;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    public function getRules()
    {
        $rules = array();
        foreach ($this->rules as $resource => $roles) {
            $rules[] = array($roles, $resource);
        }

        return array('allow' => $rules);
    }

    /**
     * Retrieves the resource name for a given controller
     *
     * @param string $controller
     * @param string $action
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getResourceName($controller, $action = null)
    {
        if (isset($action)) {
            return sprintf('controller/%s:%s', $controller, $action);
        }

        return sprintf('controller/%s', $controller);
    }

    /**
     * Event callback to be triggered on dispatch, causes application error triggering
     * in case of failed authorization check
     *
     * @param MvcEvent $event
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function onDispatch(MvcEvent $event)
    {
        /* @var $service \BjyAuthorize\Service\Authorize */
        $service    = $this->serviceLocator->get('BjyAuthorize\Service\Authorize');
        $match      = $event->getRouteMatch();
        $controller = $match->getParam('controller');
        $action     = $match->getParam('action');
        $request    = $event->getRequest();
        $method     = $request instanceof HttpRequest ? strtolower($request->getMethod()) : null;

        $authorized = $service->isAllowed($this->getResourceName($controller))
            || $service->isAllowed($this->getResourceName($controller, $action))
            || ($method && $service->isAllowed($this->getResourceName($controller, $method)));

        if ($authorized) {
            return;
        }

        $event->setError('error-unauthorized-controller');
        $event->setParam('identity', $service->getIdentity());
        $event->setParam('controller', $controller);
        $event->setParam('action', $action);

        /* @var $app \Zend\Mvc\ApplicationInterface */
        $app = $event->getTarget();
        $app->getEventManager()->trigger(MvcEvent::EVENT_DISPATCH_ERROR, $event);
    }
}


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Q: Trouble with VBA Range.PasteSpecial xlPasteValues thanks for any support in advance!
I'm having an issue copying and pasting data from a CSV file to a table in excel.
I have a macro that opens a CSV file, reads all the ID's in the first column and compares it with ID's a table in the main workbook. The macro then identifies new ID's and copies the relevant data to the main workbook adding rows to the bottom of a table.
My problem is that in the CSV file the date column is pre-formatted to read as 29/03/2020 (UK format) however when the data is pasted into the table in the main workbook the dates are pasted in US format where possible.
Is there a way I can force the paste operation to treat all the data as text which I can then format after?
Sub LookupIDandPaste(rg As Range, rgCompare As Range, dict As Dictionary, resultType As eResultType, OpenBook As Workbook)
'lookup row number in rgCompare of transaction ID's not already listed in rgBase (identified in sub MainCompare)

    Dim key As Variant
    Dim rowNum As Long
    Dim newRow As Range
    Dim newTableRowNum As Long
    Dim newTableCellRange As Range
    'Dim monzoTransFirstCol As String
    'Set monzoTransFirstCol

        For Each key In dict

        rowNum = Application.Match(key, rgCompare, 0) + 1 'row number in rgCompare of new item (plus 1 to account for header row)
        Set newRow = OpenBook.Sheets(1).Range("A" & rowNum & ":P" & rowNum)

        ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Transactions (Monzo)").ListObjects("MonzoTransactions").ListRows.Add AlwaysInsert:=True

        newTableRowNum = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Transactions (Monzo)").ListObjects("MonzoTransactions").ListRows.Count + 2
        Set newTableCellRange = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Transactions (Monzo)").Range("Q" & newTableRowNum) 'cell in table

        newRow.Copy
        newTableCellRange.PasteSpecial xlPasteValues 'paste operation

    Next key

End Sub

A: Try, please replacing of:
newRow.Copy
newTableCellRange.PasteSpecial xlPasteValues

with
With newTableCellRange.Resize(newRow.Rows.Count, newRow.Columns.Count)
      .NumberFormat = "@"
      .value = newRow.value
End With


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Isabelle (ou Elizabeth) de Vermandois (vers 1085 – , Lewes, Sussex), fut l'épouse de deux influents barons anglo-normands, et eut de nombreux enfants, comptant parmi ses descendants de nombreux rois et reines d'Angleterre et d'Écosse. Ses origines capétienne et carolingienne furent une source de fierté pour beaucoup d'entre eux. Toutefois, elle mena une vie très controversée pour l'époque.

Biographie

Elle était la fille de  — ou Hugues "Le Grand" de France — et d'Adélaïde de Vermandois et de Valois.

En 1096, elle fut mariée à , comte de Meulan, d'au moins 35 ans son aîné, bien que n'ayant pas l'âge légal de 12 ans. Néanmoins le mariage ne fut probablement pas consommé avant qu'elle ait 14 ans (selon la coutume de l'époque). Emma, son premier enfant de ce mariage naît en 1102.

Depuis 1115, la comtesse Élisabeth avait été enlevée ou détournée par , cet enlèvement concluant apparemment une liaison qui durait depuis très longtemps. Il y avait eu ce qui ressemble à une séparation ou à un divorce entre le comte de Meulan et sa femme. Il ne leur avait d'ailleurs pas permis de se remarier. Peu de temps après le décès du vieux comte (1118), qui fut dit mort de chagrin et d'humiliation après cet affront public, les deux amants se marièrent. Elle aurait déjà eu plusieurs enfants de lui durant son mariage avec Meulan – qui était âgé et rarement présent auprès de sa femme. Elle aurait eu en plus, au moins une fille née pendant qu'elle vivait avec Warenne du vivant de Robert de Meulan (1115-1118).

Mariages et descendance

En 1096, elle épousa , comte de Meulan. Ils eurent pour descendance connue :

 Emma de Beaumont (1102) ;
  (1104 - 1168),  comte de Leicester, jumeau de Galéran ;
  (1104 – 1166), comte de Meulan, jumeau de Robert ;
 Hugues de Beaumont (né vers 1106),  comte de Bedford ;
 Adeline de Beaumont,  mariée à  de Montfort-sur-Risle, puis à Richard de Granville de Bideford ;
 Aubrée de Beaumont, mariée à , seigneur de Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais ;
 Mathilde de Beaumont, mariée à Guillaume Lovel ;
 Isabelle de Beaumont, maîtresse de , ensuite mariée à Gilbert de Clare,  comte de Pembroke, puis à Hervé de Montmorency, connétable d'Irlande ;
 Agnès de Beaumont, mariée à Guillaume, sire de Say.

En secondes noces, elle épousa en 1118, ,  comte de Surrey dont elle eut :
 , né vers 1119,  mort au cours de la deuxième croisade en Anatolie en 1148 ;
 Gundred de Warenne, épousa Roger de Beaumont,  comte de Warwick, puis Guillaume "Taillebois" de Lancastre, lord de Kendal et Lonsdale dans le Westmoreland ;
 Ada de Warenne (Adélaïde ou Adeline), épousa Henri de Northumberland, comte d'Huntingdon et de Northumberland, fils du roi . Elle est mère de deux rois écossais ;
 Reginald de Warenne, épousa Adeline, fille et héritière de Guillaume, lord de Wormgay dans le Norfolk ;
 Ralph de Warenne.

Princesse du Moyen Âge
Naissance en 1085
Décès en 1131
Comtesse de Leicester
Maison capétienne de Vermandois
Princesse du XIIe siècle


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