Date of source: السبت, تموز (يوليو) 11, 1998
Dr. Nasr Farid Wassel, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, caused an uproar when he said that smoking is haram [religiously forbidden.
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 9, 1998
Three Egyptian Muslim leaders will travel to the US to attend a conference on Islamic unity.
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 9, 1998
[and other papers] Published articles about Sheik Mohammed Metwali Al-Sha’rawi, whose death received the most extensive media coverage of a religious personality yet.
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 6, 1998
For the first time ever, the committee of suggestions and complaints in the People’s Assembly is preparing a study about the Khat Al-Hamayouni and the ten conditions organizing the building of churches in preparation for a law to regulate all places of worship.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 7, 1998
Since the beginning of 70s, there has been a rise in political Islam and the call for the establishment of a religious state. It was met with nervous reactions from the Copts.
It should make us think about the future of national unity.
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 2, 1998
Dr. Mohammed Sayed Tantawi said in a speech that all those who hold the Egyptian nationality are equal in rights and duties.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 7, 1998
The nationalist-Islamist mind starts with denying the existence of a problem in the first place. It then compares the problem to larger problems in order to make it seem less. Adel Hussein, the secretary general of the Labor Party, used all these methods in his debate with Saad Al-Din Ibrahim,...
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 2, 1998
Dr. Mohammed Sayed Tantawi said that all religions aim at the happiness of man. He also said that in Egypt all Egyptians are equal in rights and duties.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 7, 1998
The scholars meeting in the Tenth International Conference of the Higher Council For Islamic Affairs stated that the United States, now the only world power, considers Islam its biggest enemy, after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 2, 1998
Top on the agenda of problems that have to be solved in the Islamic world is the problem of illiteracy which reached 45% and terrorism which results in some countries in a wrong understanding of Islam.