Date of source: Friday, November 24, 2006
This review, in the context of ramifications from the culture minister’s controversial statements on the Ḥijāb, discusses various opinions on whether the Ḥijāb is a religious obligation and how such controversial discussions should be tackled by society, religious and political bodies...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 21, 2004
We were mistaken to think that religious extremism that attacks creativity faded away in the recent years. In Sheikh Zayed City in Egypt, where the head of the City destroyed two statues decorating its entry after some fundamentalists put pressure on him. For they think that these statues are just...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
Has President
Mubarak’s call to renew religious thought been seriously tackled on all levels of the ruling
party and the government-owned media or not? Al-Liwaa’ Al-Islami, owned by the ruling National
Democratic Party, continued its attack on secularists on the pretext that secularists are...
Date of source: Monday, March 8, 2004
Remark on the immediate report by AWR on the death of a priest and two members of the church council in Taha al-‘Ameda, Samalut.