Date of source: Thursday, October 14, 1999
After being booted out of Al Azhar Medical College 11 years ago due to undergoing a sex change operation, Sally Mohammed Abdallah might be returning to classes there despite the prestigious university’s condemnation of her operation.
Date of source: Thursday, October 14, 1999
While Egyptian women can be ministers, lawyers, doctors, and hold many other prestigious jobs, they are still shut out of the upper levels of the religious hierarchy. Now one female religious scholar wants to become a mufti which is a high level cleric charged with giving out religious opinions on...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 20, 1999
An article about a new weekly publication, Al-Shorouq: Sawt Al-Azhar (Sunrise: the Voice of Al-Azhar), an Islamic newspaper which deals with life and religious affairs moderately, without extremism. The newspaper is the brainchild of Sheikh Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar and...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 13, 1999
A reader protests in a letter to the editor about a lady researcher who "ventures to speak of prophets disparagingly by denying their miracles which are mentioned in the Holy Qur’an as ungrounded."
Date of source: Tuesday, October 19, 1999
Is it true that if a young man obtained a loan from a bank to buy a flat and he paid off the loan and its profits, he would be considered an apostate? This is a fatwa [Islamic ruling] attributed to the Grand Sheik of the Azhar Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi. It was published in the newspaper "Al-Alam...
Date of source: Friday, October 22, 1999
The article discusses to what extent the civil court is affected by the judgment of the Mufti concerning death penalties. The Mufti responds to questions.
Date of source: Thursday, September 30, 1999
Rumor has it that Cairo graveyards have turned into a lair for the city’s most wanted criminals. The serenity and sanctity of these places are disturbed by various instances of kidnapped women taken there to be raped or killed.
Date of source: Sunday, October 10, 1999
The efforts to revive the path of the Holy Family and restore all historical sites along the path didn’t stop at traditionally recognized sites only. Also the monastery of Saint Dimyana says it is located on the path of the Holy Family.
Date of source: Friday, October 8, 1999
Some youth feel they are strangers to the church. This feeling is quite dangerous. The church should do its best to eliminate this feeling. The youth’s separation from the church means separation from the kingdom of God and getting close to the kingdom of the devil.
Date of source: Sunday, October 10, 1999
Book review of a book which was published in 1988! The book is focused on the role of the Copts in Egyptian politics in the period 1900 - 1952 and especially the role of the Coptic politician Makram Ebeid (1889-1961) in that period. The author of the book, Dr. Mustafa el-Fiqi, was advisor of...