Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 1999
The writer, a native of Al-Koshh village, responds to an article which suggested the village’s inhabitants were drunken, noisy arms dealers and gangsters. [The village of Al-Koshh in the governorate of Sohag in Upper Egypt hit international headlines last year when a British paper "The Sunday...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 1999
The Discussion of Cultures Convention that was organized by the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services became a demonstration of love and tolerance between the Muslims and Christians in Egypt. The Islamic scholars together with the priests agreed that Egypt is now living a period of...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 1999 to Friday, June 25, 1999
The writer lists a series of incidents at the Cairo University faculty supposedly carried out by Islamic groups at the university and insists that they are a cancer that may spread and destroy many good young people, and must therefore be gotten rid of.
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
The military courtrooms in Hike Step have seen a lot of strange things. One of the more bizarre spectacles, however, occurred on 17 June when the verdicts in the latest case against the Gamaa Islamiya - the Montaza Palace trial - came down. Leading defendant Ahmed Al Sheikh, who’d just been...
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 1999
The Supreme Military Court handed down its verdicts in lawsuit number 3 for 1999, dubbed as the Revival of Gamaa Al-Islamiyya Organization case in Alexandria. The Court passed life imprisonment sentences with hard labor against 4 defendants, 15 years imprisonment with hard labor against 8, ten...
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
Mahmoud Sayed Gaballah, an Egyptian militant Islamist suspect confined in a
Toronto prison, spurned a Canadian court offer, made last Thursday, to be handed
over to a third country, fearing this could lead to his extradition to Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
"The West, its politicians and missionaries regard the Islamic world as one entity and, in dealing with Muslims, do not forget that they make up one social unit. But in the meantime, the West does not want us to feel united." Thus wrote Islamic scholar Tarek El-Bishri in the introduction to Ummati...
Date of source: Saturday, June 19, 1999 to Friday, June 25, 1999
A symposium was held in Rose El-Youssef discussing Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim and his Center. Dr Ibrahim responded to what he saw as misunderstandings held by the editors and journalists concerning his Center.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 1999
Our campaign against Ibn Khaldoun Center concerning its conspiracy against the system of education was exposed on the satellite channels. The "Orbit" satellite channel set a debate between the Islamic thinker, Dr. Abd Al-Azim Al-Mata’ni and Dr. Ahmed Sobhy Mansour, the writer of the new religious...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 1999
Throughout the years of my studying, I have been appealing to the Qur’an as the most honest source that one can depend on. Lately, I have been attacked and imprisoned for this call of mine that to depend on the Holy Qur’an rather than the Sunna. I do not mean that I deny the truthfulness of the...