Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
The Islamist group behind the 1981 assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat is planning a political wing to peacefully oppose normalization with Israel, an Islamist lawyer said in remarks published on August 20.
Date of source: Sunday, August 29, 1999
Muslims are in a difficult situation because of the inability of others to distinguish the difference between various Muslims groups. The world is full of struggles, clashes and disputes. These occur in countries where the majority are Hindu, Christian or Buddhist just as they do where Muslims are...
Date of source: Sunday, August 22, 1999
The discussion at the press conference of the New York Council of Churches on June 28 [transcript presented in last week’s RNSAW] was mainly with members of the American Coptic Union. Before the press conference Drs. Cornelis Hulsman interviewed Rafique Iscander, chairman and founder of the...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 1999
Truth has got one face. But every accident has hundreds of false faces. Egypt has become the target of malicious lie sellers who are praying every day in the temple of manipulation. One of them is the conspiracy of the truck against the Copts. Another attack comes through a highly selective way of...
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 1999
After having left Egypt ten years ago will the blind sheikh return to Egypt? This question is repeated several times after the declarations of the Minster of Internal Affairs. The Minister said, " There is no objection against the return of Sheikh Omar, but on one condition which is that he serve...
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
Egypt has said that it would not object to the return of a militant leader serving a life sentence in the United States on the condition that when he returns home he serves a sentence passed against him by Egypt some ten years ago.
Date of source: Monday, August 9, 1999
The Minister of Interior spoke about the combat against terrorism.
Date of source: Saturday, August 11, 2012
Some of the Press sources in Washington discovered that the American government is trying to get rid of Sheikh Omar Abd Al-Rahman and deliver him to the Egyptian government.
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
Infringement on personal freedom or sound educational policy? The ban on wearing the niqab, or full face-veil, in schools has stirred intense controversy and a lengthy legal battle ever since it was issued by Minister of Education Hussein Kamel Bahaaeddin in 1994. The legal wrangle came to an end...
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999 to Monday, August 2, 1999
Egypt has finally got what it wanted - almost. For years, the government has been calling on Britain to hand over Egyptian nationals wanted for terrorism-related activities. Now it appears that two London-based Egyptian fundamentalists may be extradited, but to the U.S. rather than Egypt.