Date of source: Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Sāmiḥ Fawzī comments on the media promoting sectarian strife.
Date of source: Monday, January 8, 2007
Wā’il ‘Abd al-Fattāh traces the history of Najīb Maḥfūz’s novel ‘Awlād Ḥaritnā’ [Children of Gebelawi].
Date of source: Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Several human rights activists accused
the second
article of the Egyptian Constitution of flouting the non-Muslims rights at a symposium held by Cairo
Institute for Human Rights Studies on ’ the plight of the freedom of belief in Egypt.’
Date of source: Saturday, December 23, 2006
Pope Benedict XVI urged the
Islamic world, at his
end-of-year speech to the Roman Curia, to respect human rights and the freedom of
faith as the Catholic Church had
done in the past.
Date of source: Monday, December 25, 2006
A Supreme Administrative Court ruling denying Egyptian
Bahā’īs the right to have their religion recognized on official documents has
sparked
heated controversy in human rights circles. The ruling stated that the
Bahā’ī faith is
not a religion, hence it should not be listed on identification...
Date of source: Saturday, December 23, 2006
Denmark, which provoked an outcry in Egypt due to the
offensive cartoons of the Prophet
Muhammad, permitted the appearance of a veiled Muslim presenter on its
television contrary to Egypt which considers
veiled presenters a diabolical thing.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 13, 2006
The author responds to the debates over ‘The Da Vinci Code’ and Judas’ Gospel, showing some
steps
to follow in such matters.
Date of source: Sunday, December 17, 2006
The Supreme Administrative Court has issued its verdict brushing away the Administrative Judicial Court’s decree, which had permitted the notation of Bahā’ism in official documents.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Umnīyah al-Najjār
writes
about a controversial conference that was recently held in Tehran on the Holocaust.
Date of source: Monday, December 18, 2006
Many of the
issues considered
as belonging to the proven and known in Islām can change according to time and circumstances.
What some
think as protection from foreign danger is really a restriction of development that gives one group of
clergymen the authority to control the beliefs and...