Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2005
Fahmī Huwaydī addressed a case of sectarian strife [the issue of Wafā’ Costantine] in his article in al-Ahrām. The article is significant because Huwaydī is a prominent political Islamist and al-Ahrām is a widely circulated newspaper. The purpose of this article is not to correct the misinformation...
Date of source: Saturday, January 15, 2005
The thing I liked most about Anbā Bisantī’s interview was that immense amount of candor, clarity and free expression of ideas but I was uneasy about some ideas he mentioned.
Date of source: Saturday, January 15, 2005
I reckon that the church administration has mishandled the Wafā’ Costantine issue and that its very policies have reflected on the Egyptian Copts themselves, said Judge Tāriq al-Bishrī, a veteran judge and a specialist researcher in minorities affairs, in an interview.
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2005
Dr. ‘Alī Jumca, Muftī of Egypt, allowed the cremating the bodies of the victims of the Tsunami that hit Asia, in order to prevent the spread of epidemics. This opinion raised arguments in Egypt and the Azhar.
Date of source: Friday, January 14, 2005
The Qur’ān has never used the language of intimidation or terrorism to impose the Muslim point of view. On the contrary, the Qur’ān clearly states that “There is no compulsion in religion” [Chapter of al-Baqara (the Cow) 2: 256], giving people the freedom to believe whatever they choose to believe...
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2005
Egypt’s Interior Minister Habīb al-‘Ādlī made the first official announcement that Iran handed over the fugitive Mustafa Hamza to Egypt, on the sidelines of the Arab interior ministers meeting recently held in Tunisia.
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2005
Muntasir al-Zayyāt, lawyer of al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya said in an interview with Sawt al-Umma that he might be put in jail soon by the security apparatuses or killed by al-Jamāca which has accused him of working for the security authorities.
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2005
About the same time as his predecessor last year, the sixth leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Ma’moun al-Hudaybī passed away, leaving behind a controversy around the nomination of the new leader.
Date of source: Monday, January 10, 2005
Muntasir al-Zayyāt has always been a reference constantly sought by the mass media for information or memories to ruminate about ‘prisoners,’ ‘detainees,’ ‘returnees’ or ‘fugitives.’ He knows almost all hawkish or dovish Islamists and was always there as part of the saga that gripped a whole...
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2005
The U.S. State Department, together with the C.I.A., has finished the 2005-2006 report on the U.S. policy towards the Middle East. According to the report, the U.S. government will demand that Egypt remove all the barriers hindering the role of civil organizations.