Date of source: Thursday, January 19, 2006
Tal‘at Jād Allāh discusses the recent parliamentary elections, stating that people’s choices were based on a either a religious element, not one of citizenship and efficiency, or on the highest pay offered by vote-buying candidates.
Date of source: Thursday, January 19, 2006
In Al-‘Ālam al-Ān (the world now), a program broadcast on the American Radio Sawa, General Coordinator of the Egyptian Movement for Change-otherwise known as Kifāya [enough], George Ishāq, has rejected the calls of leader of the Washington-based US Coptic Association (USCA), Michael Munīr, to hold...
Date of source: Thursday, January 19, 2006
The author reports that Copts are celebrating Holy Epiphany, the baptism of Jesus.
Date of source: Monday, January 23, 2006
There are calls for an investigation into the detention of some Sudanese children, including 14-year-old Kashan Adnan, Leila, 6, Adele, 5, Amal, 3, Ibrāhīm, 2, and many others, after the sit-in in downtown Cairo was broken up by Egyptian security forces.
Date of source: Thursday, January 19, 2006
Nearly 400 Sudanese refugees protested yesterday in front of the headquarters of the U.N. High Commission for Refugees in al-Muhandisīn, Cairo, demanding the commission to resume its aid program for them.
Date of source: Thursday, January 19, 2006
Egyptian authorities released 1550 Sudanese refugees after security forces cleared a protest camp in Cairo, an official source at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told al-Ahrām.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 18, 2006
The sit in of a group of Sudanese in Cairo ended in bloodshed with around 600 people being taken to Shibīn al-Kum prison.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2006
The author argues that religion can never be completely absent from life for man can never be divided into two material and moral beings or religious and secularist entities.
Date of source: Sunday, January 22, 2006
Reviewer: ‘Amr al-Misrī
The newspapers report that some extremist Israelis have been celebrating the mawlid of Abu Hasīra in Egypt with strange rituals which have caused much anger among Egyptian locals.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the People’s Assembly, Dr. Mustafa al-Fiqī, argues that it would be better for Muslims and Arabs to admit the Holocaust, arguing that denying Nazi crimes causes offense and plays into the hands of the Jews.