Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 18, 2006
The sit in of a group of Sudanese in Cairo ended in bloodshed with around 600 people being taken to Shibīn al-Kum prison.
Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 22, 2006
Reviewer: ‘Amr al-Misrī
The newspapers report that some extremist Israelis have been celebrating the mawlid of Abu Hasīra in Egypt with strange rituals which have caused much anger among Egyptian locals.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 18, 2006
Chairman of the Proposals and Complaints’ Committee at the People’s Assembly, Muhammad Juwīlī, has recently proposed a draft law on a unified code for houses of worship in Egypt.
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 23, 2006
Reviewer: ‘Amr al-Misrī
One person has been killed and around 17 injured in Muslim-Christian clashes in the village of al-‘Udaysāt, Luxor, after Muslims allegedly attacked a church, which had been built without a license. A local priest accused the security forces of being slow to intervene.
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 20, 2006
Former imām of Finsbury Park Mosque, north London, Abu Hamza al-Misrī, has denied in court in the U.K. 16 charges including soliciting murder and stirring up racial hatred, arguing that fomenting hatred is a cardinal sin in Islam.
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 13, 2006
Bibliotheca Alexandrina is organizing a conference to discuss Islam and the civil state. Arab intellectuals who have conducted research on the topic will be invited.
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 16, 2006
Having suddenly become the focus of the media on different occasions, Hanī ‘Azīz’s precise position is debatable.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 17, 2006
A copy of the Group for Democratic Development and Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-Violence Studies’ report on the Alexandria sectarian riots in October 2005.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 12, 2006
Imām of the Finsbury Park mosque in north London, Abu Hamza al-Misrī, is on trial on charges of preaching hatred and inciting his followers to kill Jews, unbelievers and apostate Muslims.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 17, 2006
The celebrity magazine al-Kawākib devoted a cover story to Muslim preacher ‘Amr Khālid and his contributions to the renaissance of Egypt.