Date of source: الأحد, شباط (فبراير) 10, 2008
The article reports on recent verdict of the Supreme Administrative Court that obliges the Ministry of Interior to officially acknowledge the conversion to Christianity on the identity cards of Christian-born converts to Islam.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 3, 2008
The article reports on the objection of 11 members of the Egyptian Parliament to a draft law prohibiting demonstrations in houses of worship.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 12, 2007
The Shūrá Council has agreed to acknowledge a four-article bill prohibiting demonstrations in houses of worship. Opposition, as well as religious figures, accuse the draft law of stifling freedom.
Date of source: الأحد, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 16, 2007
The author discusses the cases of two Coptic girls who have gone missing, while one has been reunited with her family the other is still missing.
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 10, 2007
TV presenter Basmah Wahbá stated that the car accident she was involved in a few months ago has nothing to do with her decision to stop wearing the Ḥijāb or her controversial religious programs on the Islamic Iqra’ TV satellite channel.
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 7, 2007
A former deputy of the secretary-general of the dissolved Azhar Scholars Front, Dr. Yahyá Hablūsh, has launched a Web site from Kuwait, claiming that it is a step toward reviving the front.
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 10, 2007
Yusrā Zahrān, reviews an article published in the U.S.-based McClatchy on November 28, 2007, that was entitled, ‘Self-appointed enforcers of Islamic law spread influence in Egypt,’ which discussed the eye-catching phenomenon of ’morality squads’ or the groups of Muslims seeking to enjoin the right...
Date of source: الأحد, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 9, 2007
The article is an interview with Sir Derek Plumbly, the British ambassador in Cairo who is about to leave Cairo and return to Britain. At the end of his tenure, Plumbly reflects on his feelings toward Egypt and how the country has changed.
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 29, 2007
The Azhar Scholars Front has declared a trend of responding to Shaykh of the Azhar’s most controversial Fatwás.
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 7, 2008
AWR obtained NGO status, after a long process starting in 2003.
Comment on Rafīq Ḥabīb who argues that the civil state is not by necessity opposed to the religious state.