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20. Morality cops in the classroom: AUC’s censorship dilemma prompts hard-line state response
Date of source: Thursday, March 18, 1999 to Wednesday, March 31, 1999
Last May [1998], students in an American University in Cairo (AUC) course on Muslim politics complained about Maxime Rodinson’s biography "Muhammad". In less than 24 hours after a columnist decried its teaching as blasphemous, Ministry of Higher Education Minister Mufeed Shehab ordered the...
2. So they may not believe themselves
Date of source: Tuesday, June 16, 1998
Montasir disagrees with the defense of the French teacher by his friends.
1. The price of development
Date of source: Monday, June 15, 1998
Montasir continues his critique of the French teacher who assigned Rodinson’s book for students at AUC.
9. Rodinson’s book should not have been banned
Date of source: Wednesday, June 3, 1998
Dr. Christian van Nispen criticized the ban of the Minister of Education to teach the book of Maxime Rodinson’s book Muhammad at the American University in Cairo after Salah Montassir criticized it in Al-Ahram of May 13, 1998. Salah Montassir believed the book constituted an attack on Islam but van...
1. The storm of the book "Mohammed"
Date of source: Monday, May 25, 1998
A defense of the teacher who presented the book to the students to criticize it and a stress on the fact that what happened was within the boundaries of legitimate academic research.
2. Insulting the prophet in the American university raises the anger of Muslims and Christians
Date of source: Saturday, May 16, 1998
Different scholars and men of religion give their opinions on the issue of teaching Maxim Rodinson.
1. A book that should be banned
Date of source: Wednesday, May 13, 1998
The author calls for the banning of a book on the prophet Mohammed by Maxim Rodinson that is taught in AUC.

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