Date of source: السبت, نيسان (أبريل) 10, 1999 to الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 16, 1999
A group of families and youth, looking, amidst a huge mix of conflicting, contradicting and differing trends, for a pure cultural identity not copied from, nor tainted by anyone, neither left- nor right-wing. We are believe in enlightenment. We believe that dialogue and tolerance of differences...
Date of source: السبت, نيسان (أبريل) 3, 1999 to الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 9, 1999
The media no longer reports news of killing of tourists in Egypt. Terrorism has been finished. The media, however, reports from time to time news of killing of books and confiscation of thoughts of their writers. This is as bad. Physical elimination equals spiritual elimination.
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...
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...