Date of source: Friday, June 6, 2008
The author states that local authorities and police should shoulder the blame for what happened in the Abū Fānā monastery in the Upper Egyptian city of Mallawī.
Date of source: Friday, May 23, 2008
The political situation in the Middle East is in constant flux. Muhammad Hamdī argues that the new Middle East is coming under siege from two non-Arab regional forces; Iran and Turkey.
Date of source: Sunday, February 3, 2008
Muhammad Hamdī sheds light on an episode of the talk-show ’Hālat Hiwār’ [Status of Dialogue] on Egyptian television, presented by the well-known journalist Dr. ‘Amr ‘Abd al-Samī‘, in which the great Egyptian geologist Dr. Rushdī Sa‘īd spoke about sectarian sedition in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, February 3, 2008
Sālih Shalabī reports on an interpolation submitted to the speaker of the People’s Assembly that calls for an investigation into the existence of books and texts in Egyptian markets that offend the Prophet Muhammad.
Date of source: Saturday, September 8, 2007
Security bodies, Muslim and Christian men of religion, and members of parliament have succeeded in containing a sectarian crisis in Niqādah in Qinā governorate.
Date of source: Friday, August 31, 2007
Muḥammad Ḥamdī responds to an article published on the official Web site of al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah and written by ‘Āsim ‘Abd al-Mājid, a member of al-Jamā‘ah’s Shūrá Council, about Evangelism in Egypt and the role of Islamic movements in confronting this phenomenon.
Date of source: Monday, April 2, 2007
The incident is another episode in the ongoing conflict between Bishop Kyrillos’ supporters and a number of priests who filed a complaint against him.
Date of source: Friday, August 12, 2005
Al-Sharq al-Awsat has surprised observers of the Islamic political movements by publishing a new book, written by al-Jamāca al-Islāmiyya and entitled Al-Hākimiyya: Nazra Sharciyya wa Ru’ya Wāqiciyya [Governorship: a legal look and a realistic vision]. This book has proved controversial in Egyptian...
Date of source: Sunday, July 17, 2005
The prominent Egyptian writer and scholar Dr. Sayyed al-Qimnī has suddenly declared that he renounces all his previous writings, which discussed Islamic tradition from historical and critical perspectives. He said that he had received an assassination threat from the Jihād Organization via an email...
Date of source: Saturday, June 24, 2000
[Translator’s note: We found it necessary for the reader to distinguish between Shura Council (Maglis Al-Shura), the Egyptian equivalent of the American Senate and the British House of Lords, compared to Majlis Al-Shura (Please note the spelling used), a part of the Gama’at al-Islamiya organization...