Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
The column mentions a number of titles that have been banned by the censor because they have been identified as works being "dangerous to the morals of the Egyptian public.
Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 1999
Subtitle: Immigration groups call for including Persecution Claims on the Agenda of Mubarak’s Visit to Washington
Egyptian Coptic immigrant groups in the United States of America are re-launching their attacks on Egypt with claims of persecutions of Copts in Egypt. A suspicious report has also been...
Date of source: Monday, May 31, 1999
The Al-Usbua newspaper alleges that the foreign funding received by Egyptian NGOs is used by some of them to provide foreign media (under lobbying pressure from Jewish/Zionist groups) with information that can defame Egypt. Additionally, US sponsored projects and programs carried out with the...
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...
Date of source: Saturday, March 27, 1999 to Friday, April 2, 1999
Last week the Censorship Committee on material printed from outside Egypt banned the entry of the English version of the book "Al-Nabi" [The Prophet] written by Jibran Khalil Jibran. Authorities at the American University in Cairo told the French News Agency that it was the last in a series of 70...
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The US State Department released its annual report on the state of human rights in Egypt stating: "The government continued to commit numerous serious human rights abuses, although its record improved somewhat over the previous year."
Date of source: Sunday, February 28, 1999 to Saturday, March 6, 1999
Following the Rodinson case, the office of the censor vastly increased its review of AUC books, both in the library and in the bookstore. With some 300 books checked this year alone, AUC press head, Marc Linz, says it hasn’t been easy.
Date of source: Sunday, February 28, 1999 to Saturday, March 6, 1999
The December 17 summons of Professor Samia Mehrez by the American University in Cairo (AUC) administration to explain her choice of a book containing "obscene" passages has mushroomed into something far bigger than anyone originally involved expected. This issue follows the controversy over Maxine...
Date of source: Monday, February 15, 1999
An interview with Minister of Economy, Dr. Yousef Botros Ghali, on the relation between American aid and American political pressure on Egypt, including the Freedom from Religious Persecution Act.
Date of source: Monday, December 21, 1998
A TV station from Qatar organized a live debate on the American Freedom of Religious Persecution Law and el-Koshh between Mustafa Bakri, editor in chief of Al-Osboa newspaper, and Maurice Sadek, president of the Center for Human Rights and National Unity.
Sadek, who defended the recently accepted...