Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 14, 2008
A study is published reviewing the legal status in Egypt and noting the deterioration in freedom of speech and democratic initiatives.
Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 15, 2008
Watani interviewed a Christian woman who received an MA in education from Ayn Shams university and is now a teaching fellow in the Arabic department at the university.
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 13, 2008
Poet Ahmad Fu’ād Najm was prevented from staging a sit-in for national unity.
Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 15, 2008
Al-Jumhūriyah reports about the interview of Yediot Ahronoth with Farūq Husnī, Egyptian Minister of Culture.
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 13, 2008
Rose al-Yūsuf reports about the Jehovah Witnesses movement in Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt.
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 11, 2008
The head of Jordan’s center for archaeological studies has announced that they have found the remains of the world’s oldest church.
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 12, 2008
Al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah has accused the church of promoting sectarian strife in Egypt.
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 14, 2008
The grand imām of the Azhar states that the Azhar is not able to ban books, but it can offer up its opinion.
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 28, 2008
The Shubra al-Khaima criminal court has sentenced Bahiya Nagy al-Sissi in absentia to three years in prison for forgery. Al-Sissi was born a Christian but, unbeknown to her, her father converted to Islam for a brief period when she was a child.
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 28, 2008
The Alexandria Court of Appeals has ruled that the Muslim father of two Christian boys should be given custody of his children.