Date of source: Saturday, January 24, 2004
The article presents the views of some members of the National Council for Human Rights regarding the responsibilities of the newly-established council and the change it will bring to Egyptian political life.
Date of source: Saturday, January 24, 2004
The formation of the new Egyptian National Council for Human rights was declared recently. The article sheds light on the achievements of similar councils and committees in Bahrain, Morocco, Jordan and India.
Date of source: Saturday, January 24, 2004
The author explains that National Council for Human Rights should take into consideration all issues related to human rights not only the issue of torture. The new council has to give adequate attention to all types of human rights such as the right to have pure food, the right to a useful...
Date of source: Sunday, January 25, 2004
The article reports about a
decision by the US Senate to offer $1 million to the Ibn Khaldoun Center headed by Dr. Saad Eddin
Ibrahim on an annual basis.
Well-informed sources made it clear that the funds will not be
cut from the annual aid given to Egypt, as has been reiterated already.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 21, 2004
The article presents the views of Sameh Eid, who once belonged to
the Brotherhood’s younger generation. Eid criticized the ideologies and practices of the Muslim
Brotherhood in his book “Al-Ekhwan al-Muslimun…al-Hader wa al-Mustaqbal…Awraq fi al-Naqd al-Zati”
[The Muslim Brotherhood…The Present...
Date of source: Friday, January 16, 2004
Al-Wafd continues discussing the attitudes of Islamic movements towards the issue of democracy and renouncement of violence. The Gama’a Al-Islamiya has always played a tough, significant, role in the Egyptian social and political life since it joined the Jihad group in an alliance, which led to the...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 27, 2004
The article is about a research discussed during the second Saudi National dialogue
Conference held in Riyadh a few weeks ago. The research is on the role of curricula of Sharia
sciences in Saudi public schools in promoting religious extremism and the culture of violence
against non-Muslims and...
Date of source: Thursday, January 22, 2004
The author believes that there is worldwide attack on Islam--its
Sharia-based components, ideological approach and Jihad dynamics--by anti-Islamic media and
aggressive powers. This negatively influences the attitude of non-Muslims towards Islam and
Muslims The author stresses the need of Muslims...
Date of source: Monday, January 26, 2004
The article is a comment
on news reported by both the London-based newspaper of Al-Hayat and Al-Usboa about the offense
the Grand Imam directed to Mrs. Jihan Al-Husseini, a journalist at Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper,
while she was interviewing him.
Date of source: Monday, January 26, 2004
The article is a
story of a woman who contacted Sawt Al-Umma and explained that she was seduced by a well-known
preacher who had an illegal relation with her for two years.