Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
President Hosni Mubarak met on Sunday with US Senator Arlen Specter, who is currently on a regional tour which includes Palestinian self-rule areas and Israel. Senator Specter sponsored with Representative Frank Wolf the Freedom from Religious Persecution Act.
Date of source: Sunday, August 29, 1999
President Mubarak stated that he will not hesitate to further any changes that will strengthen the participation of civil society in developing the country. We should neither under-estimate this opportunity, nor should we look down cynically on ourselves, because we may think that we alone cannot...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 31, 1999
The author explains the Zionist plan to divide the Arab World politically.
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 1999 to Friday, September 3, 1999
Pope Shenouda says some Copts might go to Israel to celebrate the year 2000 but he doesn’t want normalization with Israel until they give up the land they usurped.
Date of source:
The question for the next century is ’who is the number one in the area, Egypt or Israel?’ In order to remain the strongest country in the region Israel stimulates tensions with different minorities in the region, including Copts.
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: Thursday, August 26, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Palestinian police have detained 90 Hamas activists in the last few days in response to attempts by the Islamic militant group to carry out attacks on Israelis, a Hamas leader and Palestinian officials said on Thursday.
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 1999
Wa’el Ibrashi got hold of the report the Azhar prepared about Abdel Sabour Shahin and discovered that the report can provide a new charter of freedom of speech, thought and " ijtihad " , bringing to a halt an approach of hunting down intellectuals, thinkers and artists as disparagingly tackling...
Date of source: Friday, August 27, 1999
After he was exonerated from accusations of blasphemy and apostasy, Muslim thinker-scholar professor Abdel Sabour Shahin, added fuel to the growing dispute over his latest book when he emphasized that he was abiding with every letter and every word published in his book.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 31, 1999
The Court of South Cairo is judging the a case of Dr. Abu Zeid and his wife Ebtihal Ahmadi Younis against the Minister of Justice, Farouq Seif Al-Nasr in order to continue the matrimonial relationship.