Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 1, 2007
Ṭāriq Saʿīd Ramaḍān was born in 1962 in Geneva, Switzerland and is the grandson of Ḥasan al-Bannā, the founder of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood organization. In Egypt, Ramadān has become a persona non grata, due to the country's fear of his supposed links to the Islamist wing. He has allegedly...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 1, 2006
Samuel P. Huntington was born in 1927, in New York, USA. Huntington had his breakthrough as a scholar in the 1960's. A Google search on the exact phrase "Clash of Civilizations" results in over 1.7 million hits, which implies the influence of Huntington's work. Furthermore, The al-Qāʿidah attacks...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 1, 2007
Rifʿat al-Saʿīd was born in al-Mansūrah, al-Daqahlīyah governorate on 11 October, 1932. al-Saʿīd is considered as one of the most prominent leftist figures in Egypt. In 2005, al-Saʿīd criticized the amendment proposed by President Ḥusnī Mubārak to article 67 of the Egyptian constitution. The...
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 1, 2007
Muṣṭafā al-Fiqī was born in al-Beḥīrah governorate in November 1944. In 2005, al-Fiqī defended the amendment that was proposed by President Ḥusnā Mubārak to article 67 of the Egyptian constitution. The amendment, which was approved in a public referendum, allows multi-candidate presidential...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 19, 2015
A Coptic family which converted to Islam demonstrated near the office of the Public Prosecutor. They claim that they were attacked by the police after revealing their conversion and then detained for refusing to return to Christianity. The family showed onlookers bruises and cuts left by the...
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 1, 2007
Muḥammad Ḥabīb was born in 1943 and holds the position of First Deputy for the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Ḥabīb is part of the older generation of the Muslim Brotherhood. This older generation is usually considered to be very cautious about cooperating with the state. They...
Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 1, 2006
Coptic activist Mīlād Ḥannā was born in June 1924 and is the co-founder of the left-wing opposition party al-Tajammuʿ Party. Ḥannā said that he could have easily been a minister if he had chosen to do some lip-service to President Mubārak; however, the fact that he has criticized the government on...
Date of source: السبت, تموز (يوليو) 1, 2006
Bishop Michael was born in 1949 in Karachi, Pakistan. He had both a Christian and Muslim family background. Bishop Michael was the first non-white senior bishop in the Church of England on his appointment. There were issues raised about him having a leading role in the church and worries over the...
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 1, 2007
Reverend Jerry Lamon Falwell was born on August 11, 1933 in Lynchburg, Virginia and deceased in May 2007. In 1967, Falwell created an evangelical educational institution called the Lynchburg Christian Academy. The most echoing case of insult caused by Falwell was September 2002, when he gave an...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 1, 2006
Jamāl al-Bannā was born in 1920 in al-Mahmūdiyyah in al-Bihīrah governorate, Egypt. His elder brother was al-Imām Ḥasan al-Bannā, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Despite being the brother of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Bannā pursued quite different interests. al-Bannā...