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Date of source: Saturday, June 24, 2000
[Translator’s note: We found it necessary for the reader to distinguish between Shura Council (Maglis Al-Shura), the Egyptian equivalent of the American Senate and the British House of Lords, compared to Majlis Al-Shura (Please note the spelling used), a part of the Gama’at al-Islamiya organization...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2000
The famous lawyer of the Islamic groups confirmed that Al-Jihad organization would not issue a decision in which it would cease violence because they are the founders of the revolutionary thought through spreading revolutionary groups.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 21, 1999
It has become certain that the organizations of the extremist groups have almost come to a demise. Reuters and all news agencies reported about the division inside the Egyptian Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiyya. Refai Ahmed Taha, who is sentenced to death for the Luxor massacre carried out by Al-Gamaa in 1997...
Date of source: Friday, November 12, 1999
Heated student elections were held last week in all the Egyptian universities. While some students played the role of activists, others took the role of spectators. Islamist students, who call themselves Gama’at el-Islamiya, and non-Islamists fought each other in the elections.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 29, 1999
The reactions of the "Gama’at al-Islamiya" on the death of terrorist Farid Kedwany and his three assistants by security forces in Omrania are still flowing. There are fear Gama’at violence might return.
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 1999
Interview of al-Arabi with Montasser Al-Zayat, the lawyer of Gama’at al-Islamiya. Al-Arabi accused him of maneuvering, spoke about the termination of his role and the death of the Gama’at al-Islamiya and its weakness. Zayat, instead, calls himself a mediator between the Gama’at al-Islamiya and the...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
The US Embassy has issued three-week entry visas to Aisha Hassan and Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, the wife and brother of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, spiritual leader of the underground Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya. The blind cleric is serving a life sentence in a prison in Rochester, Minnesota, for plotting to bomb...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
Security forces detected a four-man cell led by Gamaa Islamiya commander Farid Salem Abdel Qadr Kedwani in a flat in the alleys of a slum district near the Pyramids, and moved in as a matter of routine. In the ensuing hour-long firefight the four militants were killed. Islamist lawyer Montasser Al...
Date of source: Sunday, July 11, 1999
Al-Arabi newspaper knew that the security authorities have only released 800 arrested members from Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiyya (the illegal Islamic group). The security authorities should have released 1200 arrested members last May. This decision led to a new internal crisis between the members of Al-...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, June 30, 1999
The Supreme Military Court wrote the final chapter last Thursday in a mysterious saga involving suspected members of the country’s largest militant organization, Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya. Twenty-one defendants had been charged with planning to revive the group’s activities in the Mediterranean city of...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.