Date of source: Monday, September 20, 1999
According to the contract which was signed between Yemen and Britain, the accused British will be released. There are indications that some British Ministers want to return British companies to implement the projects in the Aden port and airport, which stopped since the arresting of the accused...
Date of source: Monday, September 20, 1999
It is rumored that the Yemeni Government is receiving pressure from America to close down the Hamas office in Sana’a as well as preventing Hamas leaders from visiting Yemen.
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 1999
Al-Arabi has learned that Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman amir [commander] and mufti of Islamic groups has agreed to issue a request to the Egyptian authorities declaring his wish to return to his homeland.
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 1999
It is time to do Dr. Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid justice and give him his credit back and remove the injustice done to him. We need his mind, his thinking and his personal interpretation in a phase in which Egypt suffers of the scarcity of intellectuals and lives a mixed and mingled reality that needs big...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
It is not easy to defy the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, His Holiness Pope Shenouda III - and get away with it - as the family of one dead clergyman has learned. No one - including some of the pope’s most reliable allies - had anticipated the kind of revenge Pope Shenouda had arranged for...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 14, 1999
Cairo has criticized a report recently published by the American Foreign Ministry which accuses Egypt of religious persecution against Copts.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 14, 1999
I cannot figure out until when Americans will continue to try to blackmail Islamic governments and people interfering in an unacceptable way in local affairs. A few days ago, the American Foreign Ministry issued a weird report speaking about the status of the religious minorities in some Islamic...
Date of source: Sunday, September 12, 1999
The United States released its first annual report on religious freedom worldwide on Thursday (September 9, 1999)... Regarding Egypt, the report admitted that the non-Muslim Christian minority generally practice[s its] rituals without any interference, but it claimed that there [is] some societal...
Date of source: Saturday, September 11, 1999
The United States produced the first annual report about religious freedom in the world. The report claimed that there is some discrimination in society and government against the Copts in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, September 11, 1999
The report of the American Foreign Ministry concerning religious freedom in the world spoke about the climate of religious tolerance in Egypt, and it said that the [Egyptian] government had decided to support the teaching of both Coptic and Byzantine history in the schools, just as [also] the...