Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 6, 1999
The Ministry of Education confirms the participation of Minister of Education Bahaa Eddin in the Ibn Khaldoun Center’s recent symposium on developing new curricula for use in pre-university education, but denies that he said that the curriculum of the Center was insulting to the Prophet [Mohammed}...
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 3, 1999 to الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 9, 1999
A dozen Moroccan and Algerian Muslim fundamentalist prisoners called on May 27 on the Socialist-led government of Morocco for an amnesty. Among them are three members of Algeria’s banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), spending up to 14 years in jail for their involvement in arms trafficking to...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 25, 1999
Members of parliament asked for more clarification concerning the issue of the curriculum produced by the Ibn Khaldoun Centre that was supposedly accepted and approved by the Minister of Education Dr. Hussein Kamal Bahaa’ Eddin.
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 20, 1999 to الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 26, 1999
Canadian police have confirmed that an Egyptian man with suspected ties to violent Islamic fundamentalists in the Middle East has been detained as a security risk. His insistence that he was a "devout Muslim" persecuted by the Egyptian government was also found to lack credibility.
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 21, 1999
The Ibn Khaldoun Center is accused of attempting to stir up strife between Egyptians, both Muslims and Christians through its publication of a project for Islamic religious studies at pre-university level entitled "History and Social Studies."
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 22, 1999 to الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 28, 1999
Fundamentalists are now spreading the slogan "The veil is a duty equal to prayers" by stamping it in red on 50-piaster notes.
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 21, 1999
A joint committee has been set up by the Ministry of Information and the Ministry of Waqfs [Endowments] to start a program that will celebrate the occasion of the fourteen hundredth anniversary of the entry of Islam into Egypt.
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 8, 1999 to السبت, آيار (مايو) 15, 1999
Excerpts from the newly published book entitled The Coptic Church: Its History, Traditions, Theology and Structure.
Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 17, 1999
Through their special coordination offices, 450 Islamic societies extended their congratulations to the president of Al-Azhar Permanent Committee for Dialogue between the Heavenly Religions, Sheikh Fawzy Al-Zafzaf, for the decisive and frank position expressed by the "Al-Azhar"-Vatican Committee...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 12, 1999
Learned sources within the Muslim Brotherhood organization unveiled that currently a fierce struggle is taking place within the circles of leadership of the organization over their position regarding the issue of nomination of President Hosni Mubarak for the fourth presidential term.