Date of source: Saturday, February 4, 2006 to Friday, February 10, 2006
Fou’ād ‘Alām states the reasons for the recent successes achieved by political Islam movements. Muslims’ aspirations for changing their current governments, whose policies have not met up to their hopes, is one of the reasons behind the successes of political Islam movements.
Date of source: Saturday, February 4, 2006 to Friday, February 10, 2006
Rose al-Yousuf esteems the great contributions in Islamic thinking of well-known Egyptian writer and professor of Arabic literature, Dr. Nasr Hāmid Abu Zayd, who recently left Egypt for The Netherlands after a court ordered him to separate from his wife.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2006
At the end of their 23rd conference in Tunis, Arab interior ministers issued yesterday a closing statement in which they condemned terrorism and announced recommendations on future cooperation in fighting terrorism.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2006
In the drama that followed the republishing of the Danish cartoons across several European nations, the Danish and Norwegian Embassies in Damascus, and also the Danish Consulate in Beirut, were all burnt down. These incidents prompted those foreign ministers to advise their people to leave Syria...
Date of source: Sunday, February 5, 2006
Certain parties have managed to dominate the minds of some Europeans and bring them into a state of genuine panic about losing their national identity at the hands of what they called the Islamic cultural invasion. This has been one effective result of the boycott against Denmark following the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2006
In his book Nothing’s Scared, playwright and stand-up comedian, Lewis Black refutes this argument and claims that the American people no longer care about religion. Black includes references to Mormonism and polygamy.
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2006
In his book Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking toward the Third Resurrection, Sherman A. Jackson offers a thorough examination of the career of Islam among black Americans.
Date of source: Sunday, January 29, 2006
A lecture was held in Royce Hall at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), wherein Coptic expert Dr. Heike Behlmer touched on aspects of Christianity in ancient and early Islamic Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Political analyst, researcher, author and executive editor of the Egyptian weekly Watanī International Majdī Khalīl, known for his books on citizenship rights, civil society and the position of minorities in the Middle East, speaks out many on Coptic grievances to al-Dustour.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Nawwāra Najm writes on the protest camp of Sudanese refugees where they lived for three months, demanding resettlement outside of Egypt, and lashes out at the government for resorting to violence and mishandling the situation.