Date of source: Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Despite being Syrian, Muhammad Rashīd Ridā’s intellectual and political activities have reached their zenith
during his stay in Egypt in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Groups adopting declared political objectives standing on
Ridā’s ideas like the Fascist Misr al-Fatāh [Young Egypt] and...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 5, 2005
The Egyptian authorities barred two Muslim Brotherhood leaders from traveling overseas although their names
were not blacklisted as banned from traveling by a judicial order. The students of the AUC protested yesterday in downtown
Cairo urging the actions of political reforms, repeating the same...
Date of source: Sunday, April 3, 2005
Copts in Egypt must arise and shed the apathy that plagues so many of them and become part of political reform process that will eventually improve their lives. A Copt should run for presidency. Winning or losing the early elections is not the issue. Meeting the challenge to become active...
Date of source: Sunday, April 3, 2005
There is need to search for a suitable Coptic candidate to compete with the incumbent Egyptian president, not because it was a right for the Copts guaranteed by the constitution, but because the key objective of the competition is to expand the democratic practices to be genuine in the future.
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2005
The constitution, which provides that there is no discrimination among citizens on basis of religion, sex or color, holds that Islamic sharī‘a is the only source of legislation; while the fiqh [Muslim jurisprudence] rule goes that no non-Muslim would be allowed to rule Muslims.
Date of source: Sunday, April 3, 2005
The U.S. Department of State human rights report on Egypt slammed human rights abuses and security officials’ transgressions against journalists and anti-Mubārak protestors.
Date of source: Thursday, June 23, 2005
Rose al-Yousuf writes that Egyptian grassroots are not interested in demonstrations of the Kifāya movement.
Critique on an article about a Christian family alleging that the Grand Shaykh of the Azhar was involved in luring their daughter to Islam.
Date of source: Monday, March 28, 2005
The Coptic Orthodox Church defrocked
Father Yu’annis Zakī Sidrāk after a number of Copts lodged complaints that he had collected money from them for
personal business.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 29, 2005
The Church’s non-recognition of civil divorce and its subsequent refusal to authorize marriage for a second time
is in fact a very sensitive issue and must be settled once and for all.
The problem facing Christians is due to an
absence of dialogue and intellectual liaison between the Church and...
Date of source: Saturday, March 26, 2005
Words are mightier than the sword. They are the
weapons that the enemies use to spread rumors and undermine the stability of an unruffled country. This is the explanation
for what has been happening for the last few days when rumors spread about a bomb in the campus of cAyn Shams University.