Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 14, 2005
I have recently received a phone call from an intellectual woman, the wife of a rich businessman. Her voice was a mix of sadness and anger over the notion that extremists are influencing the young men and women of the poor class.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 3, 2005
AWR questioned LCHR about how they see their role in the defence of Egypt’s small farmers.
Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 5, 2003
Hossam Gawdat is a new AWR board member. He has been translating some articles for AWR and provided a comment on a MEMRI report on radical anti-Jewish and anti-Christian preaching of a sheikh in Gaza. He is qualified to comment on radical preachers since he was once closely associated to the Gama’...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, نيسان (أبريل) 6, 2004
The board of the Foreign Press Association in Egypt sent the following email titled “The Foreign Press Association in Egypt is independent and will remain independent” to all its members:
The articles published in Al-Usbua on March 15 and Sawt Al-Umma on March 22 included false claims made by Mr....
Date of source: الثلاثاء, حزيران (يونيو) 8, 2004
Maxime Rodinson died last week at the age of 89. Perhaps this is the opportunity to defend the French Orientalist from Arab accusations and the subsequent marginalization of his role and works. While Cairo protested his book about the Prophet Muhammad thirty years ago, the Beirut publishing house...
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 24, 2004
The American University in Cairo put a condition on its application that prospective female students should not wear the niqab or the face cover. Deputies in the Egyptian parliament, including the Muslim Brotherhood deputies, submitted a request of information to Dr. Moufid Shihab, the minister of...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 18, 2005
Mustafā Aḥmad Ḥasan Ḥasan Abāza is a very special person for Arab-West Report because he has encouraged our work from the first moment we started. The AWR Board of Advisors therefore agreed to ask Mustafā Abāza to join the AWR Board of Advisors, an invitation Abāza gladly accepted.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 21, 2003
Suggestions and changes to improve the AWR.
Announcement of fieldtrips organized by the AWR to help non-Egyptians better understand Egyptian society.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 18, 2004
Last week’s conference held by the Ibn Khaldoun Center
for Development Studies on "Islam and reform" has triggered a deep crisis between the Center and
Grand Imam of the Azhar Sheikh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi following his remarks hitting at the
conference.
Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 22, 2004
The Foreign Press Association is in an illegal status, as it did not register itself
under the Egyptian NGO law 84 of 2002. The organization organizes conferences and activities that
are suspicious. It suspended deputy secretary-general Ismail De Coursac illegally. The
association turned into a...