Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 11, 1999
Dr. Hussein Kamel Bahaa’ Eddine, Minister of Education is to be questioned concerning the suggested religious and national curriculum made by the Ibn Khaldoun Center. The question session is expected to be held on May 15-16, 1999.
Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 17, 1999
The Administrative Judiciary Court of the State Council issued a ruling to stop the execution of and cancel the decision of the Supreme Council of Judges to ban the entry of veiled wives and daughters of judges to the premises and branches of the Judges’ Club, ruling that such a ban was a violation...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 16, 1999
The celebration of the entry of Islam into Egypt has been postponed to the second half of next July.
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 16, 1999
A look at the Islamic Museum and the possible changes in venue for the treasures it houses.
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.
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 8, 1999 to الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 14, 1999
An anonymous Coptic Christian writes on the problem of divorced Copts. He cites statements by two legal counselors who say that the courts should decide the matter of permissions to remarry for divorced Coptic Orthodox Christians, and says that prohibition of permission of their remarriage is a...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 6, 1999 to الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 12, 1999
A Cairo court sentenced two Islamic militants to life in prison on charges of trying to kill former ministers and belonging to an illegal Islamic group.
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 7, 1999
The article claims that the educational curricula being developed at the Ibn Khaldoun Centre is part of a Zionist plot to destroy faith and Islam. It attacks Ahmed Mansour, an academic who was sacked from his job at Al-Azhar University for claiming that the prophets, including the prophet Mohammed...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 5, 1999
The author states that the Ibn Khaldoun Center which is a centre for [social] development has recently arrogated to itself more powers to the point of intervening to change the curriculum for the religious subjects taught in the primary and preparatory schools. He also talks about Dr Ahmed Sobhi...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 4, 1999
More protest against the curricula development project at the Ibn Khaldoun Centre. The anonymous author lists that he regards as the three focal points of the Center’s policies.