Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
The tempo of attack on Egyptian actors and actresses has sharply increased in recent years. The number of cassette tapes released by unknown sheikhs who demonize the film industry outnumber the scores of kitsch albums launched every day into the market.
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
"Since you cannot convey reality precisely, since in the last resort there is no precise reality to convey, why worry? All that is expected of you is a good story, so let them have it. Truth? What is truth?" writes Edward Mortimer in "Islam and the Western journalist." And thus the Western press...
Date of source: Monday, October 25, 1999
The Russian Orthodox Patriarchate decided to send Archpriest Dimitry Netsvetaev to Egypt. He obtained a church-building from the Greek Orthodox Church in Cairo but has no funds to restore the building which had been neglected for decades.
Date of source: Saturday, October 23, 1999
A senior Iranian cleric yesterday lashed out at US Secretary of State Madeline Albright for "interfering" in the trial of 13 Iranian Jews charged with spying for Israel.
Date of source: Thursday, October 21, 1999
A Catholic bishop warned in a speech before the College of Cardinals and in the presence of Pope John Paul II, against what he called the threats of an new Islamic invasion of Europe. At the same time, he expressed his confidence that the ultimate victory will be achieved by Christians.
Date of source: Friday, October 22, 1999
Exploitation of religion in international relations is not new in human history. Whether created by man or inspired by God [the so-called "heavenly religions" considered by Muslims to be Judaism, Christianity and Islam], religions have been the basis of many of the world’s alliances, wars and...
Date of source: Thursday, October 21, 1999
The United States made beyond doubt a strange effort to intervene in the internal affairs of other countries, especially countries of the third world and the Islamic world in particular when it issued last month its report on religious freedom in the world in the frame of the religious freedom law...
Date of source: Thursday, October 21, 1999
Jordan’s King Abdallah said on October 17 that a rift with the Palestinian militant group Hamas should be resolved soon, as two detained Hamas leaders began a hunger strike in a Jordanian jail.
Date of source: Thursday, October 21, 1999
Hamas, the main Palestinian opposition movement, recently reaffirmed its opposition to the Middle East peace process on the grounds that it would neither enable the Palestinian people to recover their minimum legitimate rights nor realize their national aspirations.
Date of source: Monday, October 18, 1999
After a verdict was made to close Al-Haq newspaper. The Committee to Protect Journalists urged the President in writing to stop the closure orders of Al-Haq as well as Al-Shoura newspapers.