Date of source: Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Jābir ‘Asfour discusses the wide impact of what he calls ‘hegemonic regimes’ in the Arab world on the concept of freedom of expression.
Date of source: Monday, September 5, 2005
A group of Egyptian intellectuals of different political and religious hues, has met in Sharm al-Sheikh to discuss the subject: Terrorism: the phenomenon and the confrontation.
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 2004
The article was previously printed by Al-Hayat [See AWR week 37, art. 47].
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 2004
The main aim of the film is to destroy the fear barrier that takes hold of film makers when they deal with the Egyptian Coptic family that does not differ from the Muslim family. The film is the first of its kind to focus completely on the life of a Christian family from the lower middle class. The...
Date of source: Monday, July 12, 2004
What has happened to Egyptian society and led to the catastrophe of religious extremism, which has claimed the lived of many innocent people and tarnished the image of Islam and Muslims in the world? I believe there are three major factors that contributed to the spread of religious extremism in...
Date of source: Monday, September 6, 2004
The state might
look to media organizations that it owns - newspapers, radio, TV, etc.- as if they were its own
propaganda instruments to justifies what it does and defend its actions. It is then that these
organizations completely lose their independence and turn into pure ideological...
Date of source: Monday, May 17, 2004
MP Tala’at Al-Sadat submitted a request for information regarding the showing of “The Passion of the Christ” in Egyptian theaters. Al-Sadat considered the showing of the film in Egypt, with its portrayal of Jesus Christ, a prologue to the portrayal of prophet Muhammad. This, according to Al-Sadat,...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 3, 2004
Like many others, I felt sad and angry watching that repressive “melodrama” by some symbols of extremism in a clear attempt to harm screenwriter Usama Anwar Okasha, a man of enlightened creativity. Matters went even worse as some had filed a hisba [the right of a Muslim to defend public morality,...
Date of source: Monday, February 21, 2005
The spread of the ideology of banning and confiscation is a result of tyrannical, political, social, intellectual and religious factors. It is also the result of the absence of democracy and the spread of and religious bigotry.