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35. Critical issues in the discussions in Washington. An organized American campaign to spoil Mubarak’s visit
Date of source: الاثنين, حزيران (يونيو) 21, 1999
President Mubarak starts a "critical" visit to the United States next Saturday. The mutual relations between the two countries have priority in the agenda of the president. There are a number of reasons that have helped in raising the degree of tension in the Egyptian-American relations. On the top...
18. Truce masks Algeria’s real problems
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 17, 1999 to الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 23, 1999
Following seven years of unremitting bloodshed and tens of thousands of lives lost, Algeria’s bloody civil struggle may finally be drawing to a close as the president and the main Islamist opposition group agree to a peace. Whether President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the Islamic Salvation Front’s (...
22. A literature quiz for AUC
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 10, 1999 to الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 23, 1999
The column mentions a number of titles that have been banned by the censor because they have been identified as works being "dangerous to the morals of the Egyptian public.
9. Loose knots untied
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 13, 1999 to الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 26, 1999
Al-Azhar pronounces ’urfi marriages - legal but often temporary unions - criminal.
20. The Prophet
Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 10, 1999
The author argues against the findings of a religious panel formed to examine Jibran’s book "The Prophet" for any religious offence or transgression. The panel decided that there were not any religious offences or transgressions, yet they were opposed to the pictures drawn in the book by Jibran;...
32. Free ride for rapists could soon be over
Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 25, 1999
On April 3, President Hosni Mubarak issued a decree that would clip the wings of rapists and make it impossible for them to escape prosecution. The decree repealing Article 291 was approved by the cabinet the next day.
18. Jibran Khalil Jibran’s "The Prophet": Confiscation of a book which Egyptians have been reading for 70 years
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 27, 1999 to الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 2, 1999
Last week the Censorship Committee on material printed from outside Egypt banned the entry of the English version of the book "Al-Nabi" [The Prophet] written by Jibran Khalil Jibran. Authorities at the American University in Cairo told the French News Agency that it was the last in a series of 70...
20. Morality cops in the classroom: AUC’s censorship dilemma prompts hard-line state response
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 18, 1999 to الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 31, 1999
Last May [1998], students in an American University in Cairo (AUC) course on Muslim politics complained about Maxime Rodinson’s biography "Muhammad". In less than 24 hours after a columnist decried its teaching as blasphemous, Ministry of Higher Education Minister Mufeed Shehab ordered the...
20. Article written by Adel Kamel
Date of source:
Letter from Ms. Laurence Moftah, Coordinator of Reference Services, American University in Cairo Library, pointing out a couple of errors in the RNSAW edition of February 11-18, 1999, and our reply.
22. The Censor and the Press
Date of source: الأحد, شباط (فبراير) 28, 1999 to السبت, آذار (مارس) 6, 1999
Following the Rodinson case, the office of the censor vastly increased its review of AUC books, both in the library and in the bookstore. With some 300 books checked this year alone, AUC press head, Marc Linz, says it hasn’t been easy.

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