Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 4, 2006
The Arabs are unaware of the importance of forming one bloc. Their deteriorating economic conditions have formed obstacles that impeded their self-confidence and consequently this resulted in a feeling of inability to stand up to the others.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 4, 2006
Rev. ‘Azīz Murjān, the head of the synod of Pentecostal churches in Egypt, stated that South Korean Pastor Jaerock Lee’s faith is sound and genuine and he has never been a heretic. He added that Kamāl Farah, the pastor of the Evangelical Church in the Cairo district of Shubrā, has visited the...
Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 8, 2006
Egyptian authorities have detained hundreds of Sudanese refugees in several camps in preparation to deport those who have no UNHCR registry documents. About three million Sudanese are living in Egypt; most of them are crushed by abject poverty, including 50 million refugees and asylum seekers, with...
Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 8, 2006
A critique of the Egyptian government’s handling of the Sudanese refugees protesting in Cairo.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 21, 2005
In Fathī Ghānim’s famous novel Bint Min Shubrā [A girl from Shubrā], a Muslim man, Karīm Safwān, says, "Shubrā can never be Shubrā without Sainte Teresa." Asked by the Christian woman Maria Sandro whether he knows Saint Teresa, Safwān replies that: "My mother told me that her brother Bassyounī goes...
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 5, 2006
It is not acceptable to go along with the negative trends in a society under the pretext of maintaining stability, but what is needed is the modernization of society and a change in the way people think within the framework of citizenship.
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 7, 2006
The article affirms that Hamās, being one of the branches of the international organization of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, has followed in the footsteps of the latter by getting involved in politics and entering the legislative elections in an attempt to seek a new legitimacy and gain new ground.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 10, 2006
The Brotherhood participation in the democratic process, if genuine, constitutes a qualitative leap that entails the renunciation of violence, refraining from the takfīr [to rule that someone is infidel] ideology and accepting peaceful political activities as a means to reach power.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 4, 2006
The Muslim community in Britain is working on clarifying the true image of Islam, particularly for young Muslims who feel some anger which, it is suggested, could drive them to commit acts of violence.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 4, 2006
While the wave of anti-Islam keeps rising in the West and some associate Islam with terrorism, Karen Armstrong, a British writer who specialized in comparative theology, defends the Muslim faith. She is highly critical of Tony Blair’s decision to support the U.S. war on Iraq.