Date of source: Monday, September 13, 2004
We were saddened by the news that Patriarch Petros V11 of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria and all Africa. The Patriarch died in an air crash as he was traveling within Greece. The sad news came during the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams visit to Cairo. Arch. bishop Williams...
Date of source: Saturday, September 18, 2004
The Turkish government pulled back the draft law criminalizing adultery and penalizing adulterers with prison. Turkish media outlets, feminine organizations and a number of government officials launched a fierce campaign to drop the proposal. It seems that political and media pressures managed to...
Date of source: Friday, September 24, 2004
I practiced my natural right in examining a historical issue that is open to doubt. This issue [the Holocaust] was disproved by the Minister of Information himself when he was the head of the information authority which published in the 1992 an outstanding translation of the well-known book "The...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 14, 2004
If anyone would like to see an example of the media of strife, he may take a look at the distorted, fabricated news published by Arabic papers last week. This news is about the statement Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi made at the Egyptian Journalists' Syndicate about the resistance against the Americans...
Date of source: Monday, September 20, 2004
Dear Abdel Naguib Rizq,
With reference to your article published in Sawt Al-Umma on August 23, 2004 under the title "The enemy of Metropolitan Bishoi defends him," I would like to make a number of comments.
Date of source: Monday, September 20, 2004
Dear Mansour Sawiris,
In your response to my first article you wondered why I did not inform Pope Shenouda about my complaints before publishing them in a national newspaper. I believe that my second article published in Sawt Al-Umma on August 30, carries answers to all, or most of, your questions...
Date of source: Monday, September 20, 2004
Dear Archpriest Botros Bastawrous,
I would like to thank you for responding to my first article about Metropolitan Bishoi, who is, according to the organizational hierarchy, your direct chief. I did not intend to respond to your article as it does not add any valuable information to the reader,...
Date of source: Monday, September 20, 2004
What Sa'id Sombul says about me in his article titled "Ask Ammar Al-Sherie and the widow of Wagieh Abu Zekri about Father Antonius" is in conflict with journalistic ethics. Sombul can either offer a written, official apology for what he wrote against me or take the professional and legal...
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 2004
American reports stressed that leading figures of the Egyptian National Democratic Party, including Gamal Mubarak, head of the party's Policies Secretariat, succumbed to the pressures of Washington and Tel Aviv to publish an apology in Al-Liwaa' Al-Islami [AWR, 2004, week 35, art. 35] for the...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 15, 2004
On September 7, Israeli newspapers published the text of a letter of senior Israeli rabbis directed to the head of the Israeli cabinet, Ariel Sharon. The letter urges Sharon not to hesitate to harm Palestinian civilians in the ongoing confrontations in the occupied territories.