Date of source: Saturday, March 18, 2006 to Friday, March 24, 2006
Another celebrated Egyptian journalist is urging the drafting of a new journalistic code of ethics through a committee of the profession’s elders.
Date of source: Saturday, March 18, 2006 to Friday, March 24, 2006
In an interview to Rose al-Yousuf magazine, veteran journalist Makram Muhammad Ahmad said that harshening punishments against journalists harms society and that activating the profession;s code of ethics would solve a lot of problems.
Date of source: Saturday, March 18, 2006 to Friday, March 24, 2006
The author reviews the opinions of some veteran journalists about the law to cancel the imprisonment penalty in publishing-related cases.
Date of source: Saturday, March 18, 2006 to Friday, March 24, 2006
The author focuses on some aspects of the draft law on the abolition of imprisonment of journalists, which will soon be referred to the People’s Assembly for a final debate.
Date of source: Sunday, March 19, 2006
The author discusses the attempt to involve the U.N. in the affairs of Egypt’s Christians and argues that Egyptians, both Muslims and Christians, should be the ones to resolve Egypt’s problems.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 15, 2006
While Kuwait, which is considered a small country compared to Egypt, has stopped using the law to imprison journalists, Egypt still imprisons journalists despite the president’s promises that imprisonment in publishing-related cases will be abolished.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 15, 2006
The review examines different opinions about the visit of Muslim dā‘īya [a person who calls for Islam] cAmr Khālid to Denmark and his conference there to establish dialogue with the Danes about Islam and the need to reach an understanding between the West and Muslim nations.
Date of source: Thursday, March 16, 2006
This press review tackles the issue of the crisis of the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published by Jyllands-Posten and the support by a Jewish organization in the United States for the campaign to denounce the publication of the cartoons.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 28, 2005
In an interview with al-Ahālī, Egyptian intellectual Dr. Nasr Hāmid Abu Zayd, who left Egypt after Islamists filed a lawsuit against him accusing him of apostasy and forcibly divorcing him form his wife, speaks out on the current stagnant situation of Egyptian society.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 14, 2006
A new Kuwaiti press law prohibits the imprisonment of journalists.