Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 5, 2000 to الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 7, 2000
[Also Al-Wafd, September 7, 2000]
The American Department of State introduced its second annual report concerning religious freedom in many countries, including Egypt, China, Russia and the Arabic and Islamic countries. The first annual report included many claims regarding the persecution of...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 29, 2000
In its previous issue, Al-Midan warned that there are private offices which started entering the Fatwa business [a religious decree given by a Muslim scholar or a Mufti] and assuring others that their Fatwas are recognized by the official agencies. It is evident now that the Azhar’s negligence...
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 1, 2000
Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi affirmed that borrowing from banks with interest and taking interest on deposits are both Halal. The conditions which must be met are that it should benefited the individual and the nation, the individual should be ignorant of matters relating to investing his own money or...
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 6, 2000
This article gives an overview of the Egyptian/Arab Press, including English language media, about Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim and the Ibn Khaldoun Institute.
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 3, 2000
Ahmed Younes, the head of the of the Egyptian Organization for the Liberation of the Handicapped, responded to Abu Sa’ada regarding his article which was published last week in Al-Arabi. He considered that this problem should not affect the 7 million disabled people in Egypt, whose files are inside...
Date of source: الخميس, آب (اغسطس) 31, 2000
This article exposes the opinion of Dr. Nasr Farid Wasal, the Mufti of Egypt, concerning the rights of the non-Muslim wife, who is married to a Muslim and whether she has the right to practice the rites of her religion and to inherit from her husband or not.
Date of source: الاثنين, آب (اغسطس) 21, 2000
The first Arabic Seminar against normalization (of relations with Israel), entitled "the resistance to normalization is a religious and national duty", will start in Amman today and will continue until next Tuesday. Both Pope Shenouda and the French intellectual, Roger Garoudy will give speeches.
Date of source: الاثنين, آب (اغسطس) 21, 2000
The inter-religious dialogue, which was agreed upon during the visit of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Egypt last February, has been postponed, awaiting the reply of the Vatican to a memo from Al Azhar. The memo asked the pope to apologize about the crusader wars, exactly as he did regarding...
Date of source: الخميس, آب (اغسطس) 10, 2000
The Egyptian press remained quiet for a short period until the burst of controversy was generated as a result of the Thomas Friedman article in the New York Times on August 1st, article attacking Hosni Mubarak’s policies on the Camp David-II Summit, the corruption of the Egyptian government and its...
Date of source: الأحد, آب (اغسطس) 6, 2000
An Israeli source disclosed that the government of Tel Aviv wants to built a synagogue in the Holy Haram in Jerusalem and to built a church beside the mosque of Blal Ibn Rabah in Bethlehem. This source confirmed that the Supreme Council of Rabbis is trying to force the Government of Barak to...