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22. Secret reports sent to the Islamic Research Academy for confiscating books of poetry, literature, religion, and the human thought
Date of source: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Hibah al-Sharqāwī, the author, criticizes the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy for practicing a form of intellectual terrorism when it claims the right to confiscate books not only with Islamic themes but books from all other fields as well.
32. Press freedom in Egypt
Date of source: Sunday, May 27, 2007
The author criticizes the government for stifling press freedom in Egypt. He believes that while independent newspapers enjoy a little freedom, the state-owned media merely echoes what authorities desire.
51. Coptic thinker foretells the Christians’ “extinction” in Egypt in the coming century
Date of source: Saturday, May 12, 2007
Emigration, conversion [both legal and illegal], and the prohibition to re-embrace Christianity are the main reasons for the decreasing number of Copts in Egypt.
43. Calling for a new translation of the Holy Bible is a right and not a heresy as church leaders suggest
Date of source: Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Kamāl Gabriel refutes the Coptic Orthodox clergymen’s argument that considered the suggestion to have a new translation of the Bible in Arabic as heresy.
7. Save Iraq’s Christians!
Date of source: Sunday, May 6, 2007
The article discusses the Iraqi crisis, and the escalating terrorist attacks that are ripping the country apart.
31. The laymen’s conference suggests rewording the four Gospels
Date of source: Saturday, April 28, 2007
The second session of the laymen’s conference did no better than the first. The session sparked severe reactions from the church. It called to reword the four Gospels of the New Testament and named the monastic life as “the random system.”
11. Allowing the hijab at universities divides Turkey and the secularists resort to the Constitutional Court
Date of source: Friday, February 8, 2008
The Turkish Parliament approved a draft law that allows women to wear the hijāb at Turkish universities. While advocates of the law consider it a step forward, opponents believe that it is a threat to the secular nature of the Turkish republic.
70. Constitutional amendments or embedment of the current emergency law
Date of source: Tuesday, March 13, 2007
While some consider the proposed anti-terrorism law a violation of an individual’s freedom and privacy, others consider this proposed constitutional text to be a means of avoiding terrorist attacks in Egypt. Arguments about citizenship and article two are still the main subjects of all debates...
90. Human rights organizations declare war on foreign backers
Date of source: Monday, February 26, 2007
The National Endowment for Democracy’s new orientation has caused uproar among Egyptian human rights organizations who believe in their right to choose their projects without interference from donors.
11. Managing emotionally-loaded crises in the context of an on-going communication gap between the Arab-Islamic world and the West: Analyzing the incompatible perceptual frames of the Danish cartoons crisis as an example
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006
Analysis of the Denmark cartoons issue by Dr. Hasan Muhammad Wajīh, expert of linguistics of negotiation and cross-cultural communication at the Azhar University and moderator of the April 15, 2006 discussion at El-Sawy Culture Wheel on ‘Freedom of expression and respect for the other. How to...

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