Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2000
The State Security Prosecutor held investigations with the a leading person working with the Ministry of Culture. This person is said to be responsible for the release of the novel "Banquet for the Seaweed".
Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2000
The Minister of Culture, Farouq Hosni, reiterated his previous statement on the controversial novel and asserted that the allegation that the Ministry could approve such publications is outrageous and may be a sort of political profiteering.
Similar articles appeared in Al-Ahram (p.1), Al-Akhbar (...
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2000 to Thursday, May 11, 2000
It is neither Poetry nor creativity, it is only vulgarity that humiliates God and the prophets using sexual conversation and expressions. This is how the writer described the anthology of "Woman who likes the sea" and the novel of "The mint aroma" which the Ministry of Culture issued in the series...
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2000 to Thursday, May 11, 2000
The news paper asked the Minister of Culture to resign as a way to apologize for printing and financing tens of books that are against morality, including "Banquette for Seaweed", and for giving many contradictory declarations.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2000 to Thursday, May 11, 2000
Mohammed Al-Qudusi asked the intellectuals, in a long article, to sign a statement which condemns the officials of the Ministry of Culture whom he described as "Freedom enemies and creation falsifiers", after their intervention in the poetry anthology of Abdel Wahab Dawoud. They add and eliminate...
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2000 to Thursday, May 11, 2000
Hundreds of people gathered at the conference of the Labor Party to protest and condemn the controversial novel "Banquet for the Seaweed". They urged the state to destitute the Minister of Culture. Adel Hussein, the secretary-general of the Labor Party, claimed that there is a Zionist plan and...
Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2000
Afaq Arabia ran an article by Abdullah Al-Tahawy saying that some weak and uncreative writers find insulting Islamic values the shortest way to be famous. Some writers want their books to be banned, then they can run to Human Rights Groups and the Leftists and start wailing about the lack of...
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2000
Al-Shaab carried out a fierce campaign against the novel "Banquet for the Seaweed". It opened with an article which stated that the people’s outrage against the Minister of Culture has transferred from the Azhar University to the Faculty of Islamic Studies. Page 3 showed the opinion of some...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 3, 2000
On the 15th of May, Mr. Farouq Hosni, the Minister of Culture, will inaugurate the first exhibition of the Egyptian Coptic monuments under the name of "the Coptic Art in Egypt" in the biggest halls of the Arab World Institute in the heart of the French capital, Paris.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2000 to Sunday, May 14, 2000
More than 1500 persons applauded and shouted urging the destitution of the Culture Minister, Farouk Hosni, during last Friday’s conference of the Amal [Labor] party. The publishers of Al-Shaab Newspaper launched a severe campaign against the writer of the novel "Banquet for the seaweed" and accused...