Date of source: Saturday, May 10, 2014
Salafīs have refused to implement the decision of the Ministry of Endowments which prohibits preaching of those who are not imāms.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Journalists, intellectuals, and public figures called to change part of Article 98 in the press law, during a conference entitled “No To Inquisition” in the Press Syndicate on Tuesday.
Date of source: Sunday, May 29, 2011
No sooner did the authorities issue a decision to reopen a number of churches which had been closed by the former security apparatus than a crisis erupted—one in a long line of attempts to hijack the 25 January Revolution by forces opposed to democracy, freedom, and citizenship rights. Among the...
Date of source: Sunday, May 16, 2010
Should the One Thousand and One Nights be banned? A Cairo conference debates the issue. A number of Lawyers submitted a request to have the latest edition of the Thousand and One Nights banned because they viewed it as immoral. Intellectuals and cultural figures rally against this ban, upset by the...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Al-Yawm al-Sābi‘ interviews Lt. Muhammad Sha‘rāwī, Governor of Beheira
Date of source: Thursday, February 11, 2010
The author reports on the banned book, ‘Al-I‘jāz al-‘Ilmī fī al-Kītāb al-Muqaddas’ [Scientific Miracles of the Bible], which explains the scientific facts and discoveries in the Bible.
Date of source: Sunday, January 17, 2010
The Azhar women students were obliged to remove their niqāb inside exams halls. Men were duly not allowed in the halls regardless of their positions.
Date of source: Friday, August 28, 2009
This article sheds light upon some legal experts’ denunciation of two legal organizations’; the United Group and the Andalus Centre, which appealed to the attorney-general to confiscate some Islam-disdaining, superstitions and spurious hadīths-replete books.
Date of source: Sunday, August 30, 2009
At a gathering at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Arab writers denounce censorship and restriction of freedom of expression.