Date of source: Thursday, February 4, 1999 to Wednesday, February 17, 1999
The story of a Coptic politician from the younger generation.
Date of source: Thursday, February 4, 1999 to Wednesday, February 17, 1999
A list of those championing Coptic rights reads like a veritable "who’s who" of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim causes.
Date of source: Thursday, February 4, 1999 to Wednesday, February 17, 1999
An overview of the position of Copts in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, February 4, 1999 to Wednesday, February 17, 1999
The only remedy is honest, responsible and indigenous dialogue.
Date of source: Thursday, February 4, 1999 to Wednesday, February 17, 1999
Expatriates and the Western media scream of "persecution." The government says there’s no problem at all. The Cairo Times believes the truth is somewhere in between -- in general, interfaith relations are relatively harmonious.
Date of source: Thursday, January 28, 1999 to Wednesday, February 3, 1999
The Arab Strategic Report issued last week by the Al-Ahram Centre for Political and
Strategic Studies argues that religion has little to do with the problems faced by Copts. Weak democratic institutions and human rights violations are the main reasons behind the problems faced by all Egyptians, be...
Date of source: Friday, February 5, 1999
Muntasir Al- Zayat confirmed that the visit of Ramsey Clark, the lawyer of Sheikh
Omar Abd Al- Rahman, was to revive his case. He also came to make sure that his
family was all right as the sheikh has avoided calling them.
Date of source: Thursday, February 4, 1999 to Wednesday, February 10, 1999
Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney-General and lawyer for Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, was in Cairo this week to bring attention to the case of the imprisoned cleric.
Date of source: Thursday, February 4, 1999 to Wednesday, February 10, 1999
Only 43 suspected militants out of 107 defendants listed on the indictment bill were present at the opening of the military trial on Monday of leading figures in Egypt’s second largest, but more violent, militant organization -- Islamic Jihad.
Date of source: Thursday, February 4, 1999 to Wednesday, February 10, 1999
Interior Minister Habib El-Adli said, "Terrorism is now denounced by people who had previously sympathized with underground groups, believing them to be Islamists preaching religion."