Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Controversy marred the constituent assembly’s meeting on Tuesday (July 24) after a decision to postpone the election of five substitutes for five main members of the panel who withdrew amidst the Azhar’s insistence on keeping Article II as stated in the 1971 constitution unchanged. [Muhammad Abū...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Controversy marred the constituent assembly’s meeting on Tuesday (July 24) after a decision to postpone the election of five substitutes for five main members of the panel who withdrew amidst the Azhar’s insistence on keeping Article II as stated in the 1971 constitution unchanged. [Muhammad Abū...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 13, 2012
"The Muslim Brotherhood obtained 20 seats – either lawmakers belonging to the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Irshād (Guidance) Office members or public figures affiliated to the group like Islamic thinker Dr. Muhammad 'Umārah," said Katātnī.
The Supreme Constitutional Court withdrew from the...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 13, 2012
"The Muslim Brotherhood obtained 20 seats – either lawmakers belonging to the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Irshād (Guidance) Office members or public figures affiliated to the group like Islamic thinker Dr. Muhammad 'Umārah," said Katātnī.
The Supreme Constitutional Court withdrew from the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Meanwhile, the government turned down the draft law forwarded by Coptic lawmaker ‘Ihāb ‘Ādil Ramzī on the enactment of a unified law for the construction of houses of worship.
Assistant Minister of Justice Counselor ‘Umar al-Sharīf and representative of the ministry of awqāf (endowments) Jamāl...
Date of source: Monday, September 3, 2012
Dr. Muhammad al-Biltājī, a Muslim Brotherhood member of the Constituent Assembly, said that the agreement is to keep Article II in the Constitution as it was in 1971 without any deletions or additions, avoid having the Azhar as a reference, and compelling the legislative branch not to issue laws...
Date of source: Monday, May 5, 2008
Egyptian Minister of Culture Fārūq Husnī denies circulated rumors about permitting three Israeli novels at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, stressing that he is not with the naturalization of the relationships with Israel before "just and general" peace is achieved.
Date of source: Thursday, June 14, 2007
Members of the People’s
Assembly’s Committee for Religious Affairs reject the project to unify the call to prayer and call to allocate its funds
to building houses for the poor and aid for street children.
Date of source: Sunday, August 1, 2004
In his latest book, “No Silence from Now On,” Paul Findley discusses the relationshipbetween Americans and Islam and the level of [American] understanding of [Islam]. He examines the false image young Americans have of Islam and how they keep this false image all their lives. No one tried to...
Date of source: Thursday, May 5, 2005
Writer Muhammad Abu al-Ghār has authored a book about Egyptian Jews, detecting their history from their very beginnings until their departure from Egypt. The book puts the number of Jews who lived in Egypt for several centuries at nearly 10,000 and most of them have lived in the Hāra al-Yahoud [...