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20. Morality cops in the classroom: AUC’s censorship dilemma prompts hard-line state response
Date of source: Thursday, March 18, 1999 to Wednesday, March 31, 1999
Last May [1998], students in an American University in Cairo (AUC) course on Muslim politics complained about Maxime Rodinson’s biography "Muhammad". In less than 24 hours after a columnist decried its teaching as blasphemous, Ministry of Higher Education Minister Mufeed Shehab ordered the...
11. Rights report gives Egypt mixed marks
Date of source:
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."
7. Islam and the Christian West: The Inevitability of Co-existence and Progress
Date of source: Monday, March 8, 1999
Illusive Religious Wars In his "The Mediterranean Sea" book published in Paris in 1985, the French historian Brodil likens the relationship between Islam and Christianity with the relationship between the dog and the cat: If the dog and the cat find themselves in one place, it requires the decision...
22. The Censor and the Press
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.
21. Book controversy strikes at AUC
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...
3. A memorandum protesting the sheikhs of apostasy unveils an organization of Muslim Brotherhood at the Azhar
Date of source: Monday, February 15, 1999
Sheikh Abloush, the former secretary-general of the Azhar Front of Scholars, has been accused of founding a secret party of Muslim Brothers inciting religious strife and defaming the Azhar. Other Azhari’s want him to be removed from this prestigious university.
5. General Habib El-Adly: It is true, there is a branch of the F.B.I [in Egypt] but it is not allowed to interfere in any interrogations.
Date of source: Friday, January 15, 1999
An interview with the Minister of Interior about the security situation; releasing fundamentalist detainees, fighting terrorism, the minister’s refusal to meet with the Muslims Brothers, the branch of the F. B. I. in Cairo, Egypt’s attitude to Britain’s refusal to extradite terrorists.
3. Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid: I feel unhappy for declaring Abd el-Sabour Shahin an apostate
Date of source: Monday, January 18, 1999
Nasr Abu Zaid didn’t feel vengeance despite the fact that Abd el-Sabour Shahin apostatized him from the pulpit of a mosque. He defends Shahin’s freedom of thought." He who asks a person to repent is the one who should repent because he places himself in the position of God and the prophet." Abu...
2. Hezba sheikh returns with vengeance
Date of source: Sunday, January 17, 1999 to Saturday, January 23, 1999
After several months of silence sheikh Yousef el-Badri resumed his hobby of scanning the society for profane concepts. This time Badri turned against Abdel Sabour Shahin for his book "My father Adam". The MET spoke with Badri.
12. Maurice Sadek: I call for sanctions to be imposed on the Egyptian Government, because it is racist and persecutes Copts
Date of source: Thursday, August 13, 1998
In the previous articles in Usbua reference was made to this article. The RNSAW found the text and translated it for its readers. Maurice Sadek is accused of demanding foreign intervention to protect the Copts of Egypt. Sadek explains his views.

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