Date of source: Wednesday, April 25, 2001
The Aqsa committee submitted a request to the president of the Bar Association to hold a ceremony to show solidarity with the Palestinian intafada. The ceremony was to include an artistic show by a Palestinian choral team and start with Fayrouz’s famous song "Ya Qods". The secretary general of the...
Date of source: Monday, April 30, 2001
The Egyptian security forces arrested 11 Muslim Brotherhood members in Alexandria. The group claimed that the measure had been taken in order to prevent them from running in the upcoming election of the Shura Council.
Date of source: Friday, April 27, 2001
The General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood stated that the group is not seeking power but only wants the Islamic Shari’a [law] to be enforced. He added that the aim of their activities in professional syndicates is not a matter of control. It is a democratic thing to have if the Brotherhood...
Date of source: Sunday, April 22, 2001
The American University in Cairo (AUC) has secured the sum of $ 1,000,000 for the endowment of a chair in Coptic studies. The income from the new endowment will fund visiting professors, who will offer courses as well as carry out research in Coptic studies.
Date of source: Friday, April 20, 2001
Pope Shenouda apologized that he would not be visiting Iraq, at the invitation of the Catholic Chaldean Patriarchate, to attend a conference on Christian peace.
Date of source: Friday, April 20, 2001
Two challenges were filed against the Minister of Interior and against Pope Shenouda in his capacity as the Head of the Maglis El-Milli. The two challenges regarded the elections of the Maglis El-Milli having serious legal contraventions that would lead to the invalidity of the election results.
Date of source: Friday, April 20, 2001
The author believes that most of what Kamal Zakher Musa wrote in his article "The Pope and the apology" was incorrect and lacked credibility. It was prejudiced against the Pope who was the first to give Orthodoxy a name and a position in the whole world. She criticized his referring to the...
Date of source: Monday, April 2, 2001
Kamal Zakher Musa said that Pope Shenouda’s lecture, to a group of , was disjointed and lacked brightness and passion. He said he did not understand the need for lectures and thought the written word was more powerful. A student gave him two tapes of an earlier lecture one of which had incomplete...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 18, 2001
The administration of a French school in Egypt refused to implement an Egyptian court ruling not to force a veiled student to remove her veil. This threatens to force the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to intervene to solve the problem of this student. The student’s father said that fifty...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 18, 2001
Lawyer Mamdouh Nakhla filed a lawsuit against the Minister of Education, appealing against the minister not taking a decision concerning teaching Coptic History in schools.