Date of source: Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Al-Watan newspaper’s reporter Muná Madkūr in an interview with Hishām al-’Ashrī, founder of the Salafī Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Egypt; al-’Ashrī has got the American citizenship, his upbringing has Muslim Brotherhood backgrounds; however, he implements the...
Date of source: Monday, September 17, 2012
Counselor Najīb Jubrā'īl, President of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights and legal consultant for the Coptic Church, said that the expected visit of President Muhammad Mursī to the United States of America will include meeting with expatriate Copts in an attempt to clarify their patriotism and...
Date of source: Monday, May 9, 2011
Dr. Sa'd al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, a professor of political sociology and president of Ibn Khaldūn center for development studies, said in an interview with al-Sharq al-Awsat that Copts had legitimate fears from religious movements and hard-line Muslim preachers have to put their fears in consideration.
He...
Date of source: Thursday, June 1, 2006
The Islamic calls to prayers will be unified in Egypt through radio receivers’ which will
transfer a mu’adhin’s voice from the Azhar mosque to the loudspeakers of thousands of minarets in
Cairo
and some adjacent suburbs
Date of source: Monday, December 6, 2004
Grand Imam of the Azhar Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi said the circulation of that alleged book of The True Furqan [a variant name for the Qur’an] is prohibited from a shari’a [Islamic law] point of view specially after it turned out to be a corrupt version of the Qur’an.
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2005
Egypt’s Interior Minister Habīb al-‘Ādlī made the first official announcement that Iran handed over the fugitive Mustafa Hamza to Egypt, on the sidelines of the Arab interior ministers meeting recently held in Tunisia.