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3. The Virgin, The Copts, And I
Date of source: Sunday, October 14, 2012
The French press has been speaking recently about a documentary by an Egyptian-descent French director about the apparition of the Virgin Mary.  
12. Who ignites sedition?
Date of source: Monday, July 30, 2012
A reputable newspaper splashed a headline that read “makwagī burns shirt, sparks fitnah that left 12 injured”. Any reader of this news story that took place in the village of Dahshūr, Giza, would understand that the Christian makwagī (man ironing clothes in a shop for a living in Egypt) was the one...
42. Why the Jews criticized Egypt in the Geneva fair?
Date of source: Thursday, May 8, 2008
Muhammad Salmāwī reports on the book fair in Geneva where Egypt was the guest of honor.
9. The Fatwás of the twenty-first century
Date of source: Friday, October 19, 2007
Clerics in Egypt and in Arab and Islamic countries spare no efforts to deliver innovative Fatwás that aim at modernizing religious thought and proving that Islam is the religion of progress and is in line with modernity.
12. ’Awlad Haritna’ in Egypt
Date of source: Thursday, December 28, 2006
Muhammad Salmāwī cites his conversation with Najīb Mahf?z regarding the publication of his novel ’ Awlād Hāratinā.’
2. A novel that glorifies “a terrorist” and condemns us
Date of source: Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Muhammad Salmāwī writes about the widely controversial novel ‘Terrorist.’ In this novel the author digs deep into the psyche of an American Muslim of Egyptian origins and his transformation into a potential terrorist.
11. Islamic terrorism is a Western phenomenon
Date of source: Monday, November 5, 2001
The West shares responsibility for reviving the religious trend in the Arabic region in the 1990s and for the religious groups’ resorting to violence as a means of expressing themselves. What is meant is not the indirect responsibility of the American policy, which is prejudiced towards Israel...
3. Fighting Islam even with words
Date of source: Saturday, October 13, 2001
The author refuted what V.S. Naipaul said about Islam being a disaster for Asia as it wiped out all the public cultures of the countries it conquered. He gave Egypt and Spain as examples of the fact that Islam did not wipe out the cultures of the countries it conquered but interacted with them. He...
12. The demonization of Muslims and Arabs
Date of source: Wednesday, September 19, 2001
The author is of the opinion that the reasons for the assaults on Muslims and Arabs after the attacks in the USA are to be found in the inability of Americans, whose views seem to be deeply effected by the American media, which tends to superficialize matters and look for excitement, to face the...
24. An account of the Islamic rage
Date of source: Wednesday, March 1, 2006
The author notes that the West saw both the power and the dark side of the Muslim reactions to the Danish cartoons. He pleas that Muslims check their reactions next time, lest their negative image in Westerners’ eyes become even more solidified.

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