Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 1999 to Wednesday, June 2, 1999
Shortly after Ali Abul-Saoud Mustafa, a fugitive Egyptian Islamist, was arrested in the United States last month, he was accused by American prosecution authorities of cooperating with Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden in a worldwide anti-American conspiracy. The Egyptian government had requested...
Date of source: Monday, May 31, 1999
In response to angry letters to the Al-Azhar demanding an apology for the remarks made by Al-Azhar professor Dr. Ahmed Taha Rayan on an Arab satellite TV show about the Alawis [a sect in Islam], the Sheikh of Al-Azhar formed a committee to evaluate the situation and give a final opinion.
Date of source: Sunday, May 23, 1999
Names are surely of little real political consequence but in the Middle East, they do play a significant role.
Date of source: Thursday, May 20, 1999 to Wednesday, May 26, 1999
Canadian police have confirmed that an Egyptian man with suspected ties to violent Islamic fundamentalists in the Middle East has been detained as a security risk. His insistence that he was a "devout Muslim" persecuted by the Egyptian government was also found to lack credibility.
Date of source: Thursday, May 20, 1999 to Wednesday, May 26, 1999
Switzerland’s federal police chief said on May 13 that Egypt believed Saudi-born Osama Bin Laden financed the 1997 attack by militants in Luxor in which 58 foreigners, most of them Swiss, were killed.
Date of source: Saturday, May 22, 1999
Minister of Waqfs, Dr. Mahmoud Hamdy Zaqzouk announced that the Islamic world would reassess its position during the Islamic conference to be held on June 22, 1999 in Cairo.
The Al-Azhar and the Ministry of Waqfs has contributed one million pounds to Kosovo refugees.
A new Islamic center costing...
Date of source: Saturday, May 15, 1999 to Friday, May 21, 1999
The governor of Al-Minya governorate talks to Rose El-Youssef magazine about the current state of communal relations between Muslims and Copts, as well as fundamentalism and fanaticism in the governorate.
Date of source: Thursday, May 13, 1999 to Wednesday, May 19, 1999
Canadian authorities recently arrested an Egyptian Islamist accused of involvement in the 1981 assassination of President Anwar El-Sadat and confined him in a prison near Toronto airport. Islamist sources identified the militant as Mahmoud Sayyed Gaballah, who left Egypt in 1991.
Date of source: Thursday, May 13, 1999 to Wednesday, May 19, 1999
Interior Minister Habib El-Adli denied that there is a truce between the security forces and the Gama’a Islamiyya. He said his department acts to reintegrate jailed militants into society once they "repent" and are released. El-Adli also announced that an official probe into allegations of police...
Date of source: Saturday, May 15, 1999 to Friday, May 21, 1999
Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, Sheikh of Al-Azhar, met with Daniel Kurtzer, the US Ambassador to Egypt. They discussed the Kosovo crisis and Tantawi thanked the ambassador for the US efforts for the rights of the Kosovars. They also discussed the Palestinian issue. During the meeting the ambassador...