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Long before the elections begin, various organizations are in a hectic race to win the dollars of foreign funding made available to monitor the forthcoming elections. Sa’cd al-Dīn Ibrāhīm has struck gold securing 10 million dollars in Canadian-European-US funding.
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 25, 2005
The committee supervising the presidential election - the first of its kind since the regime took over in Egypt on July 23, 1952 – has announced that they will start receiving applications for nominations for the presidential post on July 24.
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 26, 2006
The review deals with Minister of Culture Fārūq Husnī’s latest remarks in which he termed the Ḥijāb to be "a relapse backward," drawing public controversy and anger in parliament where the ruling party, the opposition and independents agreed on the need to have the minister tender his...
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 24, 2006
This review, in the context of ramifications from the culture minister’s controversial statements on the Ḥijāb, discusses various opinions on whether the Ḥijāb is a religious obligation and how such controversial discussions should be tackled by society, religious and political bodies...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 22, 2006
This review discusses political responses to Fārūq Husnī’s controversial statements on the Ḥijāb.
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 19, 2006
The review deals with Minister of Culture Fārūq Husnī’s latest
remarks in which he termed the H...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 18, 2006
This review deals with Minister of Culture Fārūq Husnī’s latest remarks in which he described the Ḥijāb as "a relapse backward," stimulating public controversy and anger in parliament. The ruling party, opposition and independents agreed on the need to have the minister tender his resignation...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 30, 2006
The review deals with the plans
by the Muslim Brotherhood group to dominate the trade unions through the elections as Brotherhood members threaten
to establish unions parallel with the government’s if elections were rigged, amidst statements by chief
Muhammad Mahdī ‘Ākif that the group is...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 18, 2006
The review discusses the 100th anniversary of the birth of Hasan al-Bannā, the founder and first guide of the Muslim Brotherhood organization, and counterarguments that al-Bannā was not angry about the 1940s assassination of Judge al- Khāzindār. It also describes the parliamentary battle between...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 11, 2006
This
press review deals with criticisms made by a number of
Coptic intellectuals against Archbishop
Bīshūy, whom Christians term "the iron archbishop." His strict
ways have resulted in the defrocking
of many priests and 50,000 Christians leaving their Orthodox beliefs.