Date of source: الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 12, 2000
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*Concerns over correspondence between the Center and a foreign organization and documents related to overseas banks accounts,
*A decision to renew the custody of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim today.
The Supreme State Security Prosecution will look today at the matter of renewing custody for Dr...
Date of source: السبت, نيسان (أبريل) 22, 2000 to الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 28, 2000
Reaching the main door of the mosque in Ezbat Al-Agouza is almost impossible. The number of girls is far greater than the number of boys. When we asked about the reason for the crowd, the answer was "Sheikh Amr Khaled". Hajja Yasmin - as they call the retired singer Yasmin Al-Khayam - refuses to...
Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 16, 2000
Last Wednesday, the AUC declared a beginning was made with the funding of a Coptic studies course. The dean of the AUC talked about the role of the University in establishing the value of culture and civilization in the spirits of the students.
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 19, 1999
It is time to do Dr. Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid justice and give him his credit back and remove the injustice done to him. We need his mind, his thinking and his personal interpretation in a phase in which Egypt suffers of the scarcity of intellectuals and lives a mixed and mingled reality that needs big...
Date of source: الأحد, آب (اغسطس) 22, 1999
The discussion at the press conference of the New York Council of Churches on June 28 [transcript presented in last week’s RNSAW] was mainly with members of the American Coptic Union. Before the press conference Drs. Cornelis Hulsman interviewed Rafique Iscander, chairman and founder of the...
Date of source: الخميس, آب (اغسطس) 5, 1999 to الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 11, 1999
Outraged Lebanese students held a sit-in in Beirut on July 20 to protest Egypt’s banning of the classic book "The Prophet" by the late Lebanese-American author Gibran Khalil Gibran. One week later, AFP reported (erroneously according to the Office of the Censor) that information Minister Safwat...
Date of source: الخميس, آب (اغسطس) 5, 1999 to السبت, آب (اغسطس) 21, 1999
In response to a spate of articles in the British media alleging that censorship has banned more than 90 books in Egypt, Minister of Information Safwat El-Sherif has dismissed such reports as "sheer fabrication with no basis of truth." British media charged that this included the book " The Prophet...
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 15, 1999 to الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 21, 1999
The Crusades are celebrating their 900 anniversary. The 900th anniversary of the First Crusade is important because of the enduring misconceptions about each other that have been foisted upon Muslims and Christians alike through the endless retelling of events which writers have emptied entirely...
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 8, 1999 to الأربعاء, تموز (يوليو) 14, 1999
Otto Meinardus, a leading authority on the Coptic Church, wrote a new book called ’Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity’. The present work is a compact hardback publication which, according to the cover, is "a new, definite, one-volume history for the Millennium, surveying the twenty centuries...
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 5, 1999
Comments given on the media coverage of the press conference of the New York Council of Churches. Coverage was inaccurate and biased.