Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 15, 2006
In response to the angry Muslim reaction to the 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published by the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, the Danish ambassador to Egypt, Bjarne Sorensen has declared that Denmark has the greatest respect for Islam and offers his apologies.
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 14, 2006
Muslim scholar ‘Abd al-Sabour Shāhīn blames the Azhar and the Islamic Research Academy for not taking proper action against the recent Danish attack on the Prophet Muhammad. He also praises the position of secretary-general of the Arab League, ‘Amr Mousa, who led a diplomatic delegation, demanding...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 10, 2006
Listing of articles published on the occasion of Eastern Christmas.
Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 8, 2006
Youssef Sidhom wishes Egyptians a happy feast, and calls for 2006 to be a year of national coalition, with better Muslim-Christian relations, and full citizenship rights for all Egyptians.
Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 8, 2006
The scenes of the national unity iftār [fast-breaking meal during the holy Muslim month of Ramadān] and the shaykh of the Azhar sitting next to the pope on official occasions no longer reflect the new reality.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 4, 2006
Ahmad Shawqī al-Fanjarī blames the backwardness of Muslims on three persons, namely "the extremist Indian writer Abu al-‘Ala al-Mawdudī, the illiterate Bedouin Mufti who spearheads the Wahābī call ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Bin Bāz and Mullah Muhammad ‘Umar who applies his fatwas with whips and guns in...
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 5, 2006
Abu Zayd, the Egyptian intellectual who was declared an apostate, claims that Egyptian universities are intellectually stagnant and that modern ways of thought must be introduced.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 5, 2006
Inspections on bookshops or publishing houses is the responsibility of the authorities concerned, including the judiciary and the police, the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy said.
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 2, 2006
The author argues that globalization has opened Egypt’s borders to international interference in her domestic affairs.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 22, 2005
A number of Coptic organizations in the West have urged Egypt’s Copts to withdraw from the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), in protest at the party’s recent stance against Copts during the parliamentary elections.