Date of source: Tuesday, January 28, 2003
Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd comments on the issues of conversion from Islam, fatwas of takfir [accusations of unbelief], human rights, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the Islamic culture.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 21, 2003
Ayman Al-Zawahry, second most important man in Al-Qa´ida network, has written a book in which he calls all the Islamic nation to join jihad. He accuses Jews, Christians and even some Muslims of being apostates so that shedding their blood is permissible.
Date of source: Monday, January 20, 2003
Lawyer of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya, Montasser Al-Zayyat, called on Arab and Islamic societies to reconsider their cultural and media policies. He requested that the government establishes a serious dialogue with the Islamic movements.
Date of source: Friday, January 17, 2003
The Minister of Interior says that the Brotherhood wants to have a political role in spite of everybody’s well-being and that the Al-Qai’da Network announced it has plans for specific goals. He adds that the police thwarted a plan of the Jihad group and the court ruling on this case will be made...
Date of source: Saturday, September 10, 2005 to Friday, September 16, 2005
The prominent thinker and writer Kāmil Zuhayrī discusses the dangers of monopolization of the press, and calls for a conference of journalists to discuss the future of the media.
Date of source: Saturday, September 10, 2005 to Friday, September 16, 2005
In an 80-minute interview, the prominent journalist, Muhsin Muhammad, sums up the concerns and the gripes of the Egyptian press nowadays.
Date of source: Sunday, September 4, 2005
Dr. Nawāl al-Sa‘dāwī, an Egyptian physician, writer, feminist, sociologist and activist, has always had controversial perspectives on women’s issues.
Date of source: Saturday, August 20, 2005
Jamāl al-Bannā is a highly knowledgeable man who stands up in the face of practices aimed at repressing freedom of thought. He is, consequently, targeted by fundamentalists and extremists, and has been rejected by the Muslim Brotherhood, set up by his late elder brother Hasan al-Bannā.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 17, 2005
When freedom of expression does not exist, scholars, who should be coming up with fatwas to making our lives easier, lose the spirit of innovation.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Sāmih Kurayyim expresses his shock at Dr. Sayyid al-Qimnī’s recent statement, in which the intellectual renounced all his earlier work on Islamic issues and announced his intention to quit writing, despite his previous audacity.