Date of source: Saturday, March 13, 2004
The newspaper of Al-Liwaa’ Al-Islami, affiliated with the National Democratic Party launched an extremist attack on Egyptian intellectuals, describing them of being unbelievers and apostates.
Mamdouh Al-Beltagi, secretary general of the media [secretariat] at the National Democratic Party...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
Has President
Mubarak’s call to renew religious thought been seriously tackled on all levels of the ruling
party and the government-owned media or not? Al-Liwaa’ Al-Islami, owned by the ruling National
Democratic Party, continued its attack on secularists on the pretext that secularists are...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
A memorandum submitted to the US
Department of State by 30 congressmen stated that the Arab states should be given a six-month
grace period during which the Arab states would formulate new constitutions under the banner of
reform.
According to the Congressional memorandum, Islam should not be...
Date of source: Saturday, March 13, 2004
We support reform that emerges from our need for it and that
is carried out by our hands, our minds and our will. We know our needs and we realize our
reality, and we aspire to reform. There is no alternative to this kind of reform, but it requires
crisis management skills, a will and a belief...
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 2004
Some
newspapers act as mouthpieces of extremism, following an approach that totally contradicts with
the approach of the [political] parties [with which these papers affiliate]. These newspapers
turned their back on the country as well as on the values of citizenship. They distribute...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
The Foreign Press Association in Cairo (FPA) is witnessing a serious crisis due to the
increasing accusations directed to the association from inside, that it turned into a propaganda
tool for the American policy in Egypt, which contradicts with its [the FPA’s] independence.
Date of source: Monday, March 22, 2004
The Foreign Press Association is in an illegal status, as it did not register itself
under the Egyptian NGO law 84 of 2002. The organization organizes conferences and activities that
are suspicious. It suspended deputy secretary-general Ismail De Coursac illegally. The
association turned into a...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Saudi intellectuals preceded their Arab counterparts in submitting a number of collective demands to their government to effect political reform. The Saudi culture faces two main streams of thought: the reformist stream and the conservative stream, both cutting across the intellectuals and the...
Date of source: Sunday, March 28, 2004
There has been a wide political debate about a
judicial complaint calling for the confiscation of the book “Al-Hijab: Ro’ya ‘Assriya” [The
Headscarf: A Contemporary Perspective] by and the dismissal of the author and editor-in-chief of
Hawa [Eve] magazine Iqbal Baraka from her job.
The...
Date of source: Monday, March 22, 2004
In an interview with Al-Musawwar
magazine, the Brotherhood’s supreme guide, Muhammad Mahdi Akef presented a contract between the
Brotherhood and the Journalists’ Syndicate in which it was written that the Brotherhood would
rent the hall for a couple of hours to present its statement concerning...