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The tape concerns an interview with Dr. ʿAbd al-Muʿṭī Bayūmī, professor ʾUṣūl al-dīn (sources of Islam) and scholar at the Azhar University. He tackles the issue of enlightenment in Islam while criticizing the Islamist views of Shaykh Yūsuf al-Badrī’s. Bayūmī praises Azhar Shaykh Dr....
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Out of 60 million Egyptian people (statistics from 1995), there is not one person who could fulfil the position of vice-president, according to then-president Ḥusnī Mubārak, which has been the case for around 14 years. In 1995, Mubārak was the victim of an assassination attempt in Addis...
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In March 2007, a referendum changed several articles of the Egyptian Constitution.
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 4, 2011
Contents I. Jansen’s argument: Copts are killed when they violate the Shari’a II. My comment: Jansen should have mentioned the general lack of security in Egypt III. Jansen does not know about the construction of new churches in recent years IV. Does the Shari’a prohibit the building of churches...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 4, 2011
AWR's Diana Maher Ghali recaps the opinion pieces from Egyptian newspapers dealing with the New Year's terrorist attack on an Alexandria church...
Date of source: السبت, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 6, 2008
Great uproar was created following the publication and circulation of a photo of the Grand Imām of the Azhar Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī shaking hands with Shimon Peres in the Conference for inter religious dialogue that was held at the UN in New York.
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 17, 2008
The author criticizes the Islamic Research Academy’s statement regarding the movie entitled, ’al-Sādāt’.
Date of source: السبت, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 29, 2007 to الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 4, 2008
Lutfī responds to Fahmī Huwaydī’s allegations about veiled women being offended and targeted by Rose al-Yūsuf and by the government and civil workplaces. He also fiercely criticizes Huwaydī and his misleading approach toward the subject.
Date of source: الأحد, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 30, 2007
The author highlights incidents in Egypt in the last month that deal with religions and relations between Muslims and Christians, he believes that these incidents are representative of Egyptian attitude in general toward religions. He concludes by wondering if Egypt is going backwards.
Date of source: السبت, تموز (يوليو) 12, 2008
Fahmī Huwaydī reflects on the Dutch movie ’fitna’ and Arabic and international reactions to it.