Date of source:
The arrival of the American committee investigating religious freedom
in Egypt resulted in widespread
reactions from all Egyptian circles, which mostly rejected the committee’s
activity in Egypt. Pope Shenouda
rejects receiving the Congress’ committee and the Grand Shaykh said that
bonds...
Date of source:
The Supreme Court of State Security sentenced Salah
El-Dīn Mohsen, who is accused of disdaining
religions, to three years hard labor. The court also ruled that all of
his books should be confiscated
because they contain extremist thoughts and defame the Divine Being. Mohsen said
that he was...
Date of source:
The efforts of
the Shaykh of the Azhar to dissolve the Azhar Scholars Front and
to turn it into "The benevolent
organization for helping the children of the workers in the Azhar," have succeeded.
The Supreme Court of
Administrative Justice ruled to dissolve the Front and to change both its...
Date of source: Friday, January 19, 2001
The Azhar Scholars Front supported the Minister of Culture and urged him to clean the
Ministry by firing
more officials who are responsible for publishing libertine books. The Front listed 300
books for revision because
of immoral style.
Date of source: Saturday, January 13, 2001
A Muslim Brotherhood’s representative made an inquiry questioning the Minister of Culture
about
the last three novels published by the General Authority for Cultural Palaces, claiming that they violate
general decency. The Minister of Culture ordered an investigation into the matter, which ended...
Date of source: Sunday, November 19, 2006
The review deals with Minister of Culture Fārūq Husnī’s latest
remarks in which he termed the H...
Date of source: Saturday, November 18, 2006
This review deals with Minister of Culture Fārūq Husnī’s latest remarks in which he described the Ḥijāb as "a relapse backward," stimulating public controversy and anger in parliament. The ruling party, opposition and independents agreed on the need to have the minister tender his resignation...
Date of source: Sunday, November 19, 2006
A research about the characteristics and
vocabularies of human rights in secondary school books of
religion revealed that issues of doctrine were present more than
human rights principles.
Date of source: Saturday, November 18, 2006 to Friday, November 24, 2006
The following lines
review
Usāmah al-Ghazālī’s article discussing the main characteristics of the Enlightenment Age; its
advantages and disadvantages.
Date of source: Friday, November 17, 2006
Sāmih Fawzī presents a review of a book entitled, ‘Al-Hurrīyah fī -al-Asr Ma’zaq al-Islāh al-Siyāsī wa-al-Muwātanah’ [Bounded Freedom: The Dilemma of Politics and Citizenship] by the secular writer ‘Ādil Jindī. The book provides a definition of secularism, emphasizing the necessity of enforcing it...