Date of source: Wednesday, November 26, 2003
For the past ten days, Egyptian news media have been circulating wild and unfounded stories aimed to discredit the newly reopened Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies. Al-Usbua newspaper devoted three pages to attacks on the "Zionist-American settlement in Muqattam" and claims that Dr. Saad...
Date of source: Thursday, November 20, 2003
Egyptian opposition and independent newspapers published the news that the American administration cut $3 million of the annual aid given to Egypt and granted them to the Ibn Khaldoun Center run by Saad Eddin Ibrahim. The three million dollars are to be spent on promoting democracy and political...
Date of source: Monday, November 24, 2003
The owner of a specious center that depends on foreign aid stated that the Islamic Shari´a is a failed project and that its application harmed Islam and Muslims and contributed to the creation of terrorism. On the other hand, the American Senate allocated two million dollars cut from the...
Date of source: Thursday, November 20, 2003
The article is about a crisis in relations between Egypt and the US over the decision of the American administration to cut $2 millions of the annual aid given to Egypt and granting them to Ibn Khaldoun Center run by Saad Eddin Ibrahim. The authors elaborate on explaining the dimensions of the...
Date of source: Sunday, November 23, 2003
Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim confesses that President Bush´s speech on democracy in the Middle East earlier this month came as a pleasant surprise but he has strong misgivings about his unilateral intervention in Iraq and failure to maintain consistent standards toward Palestinians and Israelis. See...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 25, 2003
The article reports about a 15-year-old young Jewish woman who receives her education at a religious school affiliated to an organization called “Youth of Zion.” She declared herself a Muslim in public and wore the veil.
Date of source: Sunday, November 2, 2003
The board of the Journalists Syndicate issued a statement in which it expressed full condemnation of the provoking statements of the American ambassador on the Egyptian press. The ambassador recently accused the Egyptian press of aggressiveness, deception and breaking media conventions. He launched...
Date of source: Friday, November 7, 2003
Al-Midan placed on October 16 – see AWR, week 42, art. 28 – a story claiming US emigrant Copts recommended Nawal al-Sa´adawi to be vice-president of Egypt. We did not find such a claim on the website of the US Copts Association, nor in the Copts Daily Digest. Dr. Sa´adawi believes this is...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 22, 2003
Al-Liwa al-Islami criticized in its issue of July 3, 2003 the Minister of Culture. Part of its criticism was directed at Al-Qahera. It wrote that the Minister of Culture entrusted Al-Qahera to the hands of a group of secular people who write against the true religion. The author refutes that Al-...
Date of source: Thursday, May 18, 2006
Metropolitan Abba Seraphim’s critique of a paper by Bishop Munīr on the relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt, presented at the annual interfaith dialogue meeting of the Anglican communion and the Permanent Committee of the Azhar al-Sharif for Dialogue with the Monotheistic Religions.