Date of source: Thursday, July 15, 1999
Much dispute has been raised by the "Washington Post" report concerning 92 books forbidden from entering and being distributed in Egypt. The list includes the books of several foreign, Arab and Egyptian writers. The list is unbelievable because most of these books are published and read freely in...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 6, 1999
An ad hoc committee formed last week to review the banned Egyptian film "State Security."
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 1999
The director of the Press and Publications Department (PPD) in Jordan decided to form a committee of media personnel, deputies, clerics and members of PPD’s audio/visual censorship department to review its decision to ban the Egyptian film "State Security," from cinemas and video houses because it...
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: Tuesday, May 4, 1999
The court looks today in the request of lawyer Jābr Ibrāhīm Jābr to stop printing, publishing and using the book of ’The father of Adam’, the story between magic and reality, of author ʿAbd al-Ṣabūr Shāhīn under the Ḥisba law.
Date of source: Saturday, April 17, 1999
The official banning of books in Egypt has escalated in recent years, thereby making Egypt a main source of material for the Index on Censorship which monitors mechanisms and styles of censoring the mind throughout the world.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 20, 1999
The Cairo Court for Urgent Cases will hold a hearing on May 4 on the lawsuit filed against Dr. Abd Al-Sabbour Shahin to stop the publication of his book "My Father Adam. Al-Azhar authorities called for the banning of a book by a Saudi author.
Date of source: Thursday, April 15, 1999 to Wednesday, April 21, 1999
Less than one week after her eviction from Egypt, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior announced on April 9, that it was lifting the travel ban it had imposed on Lebanese singer Najwa Karam.
Date of source: Saturday, April 10, 1999 to Friday, April 16, 1999
A group of families and youth, looking, amidst a huge mix of conflicting, contradicting and differing trends, for a pure cultural identity not copied from, nor tainted by anyone, neither left- nor right-wing. We are believe in enlightenment. We believe that dialogue and tolerance of differences...
Date of source: Thursday, April 8, 1999 to Wednesday, April 14, 1999
The Prince of Egypt is a Biblical epic about the Exodus in which God casts his wrath on Egypt, and Moses takes his Israelite people out of bondage to the Promised Land. The producers claim they consulted 700 Biblical scholars, Egyptologists, and religious leaders to ensure that the story would not...