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2. A stake in history
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
The bookshop of Mohamed Ali Sobeih in Al-Azhar Street was up once again for auction last week. The bookshop, which also includes a printing press, was built in 1900 and is renowned for its collection of 5,000 masterpieces of Arab and Islamic culture.
14. Round and round they go
Date of source: Thursday, August 19, 1999 to Wednesday, August 25, 1999
Last week, a group of Egyptian politicians representing various shades of the nationalist, Nasserist and Islamist rainbow announced that procedures were under way to establish a new political party. They called their brainchild the "National Salvation Party - Under Establishment" and adopted an...
19. Sheikh’s house under threat of bulldozer
Date of source: Sunday, July 18, 1999
Sheikh Goheiry’s second house in Fatimid Cairo between Muski and Al Muizz street is being threatened according to his descendants and residents of the area.
24. In the "National Role of the Egyptian Church Throughout the Ages Symposium: 1400 Years of Solidarity Between Muslims and the Copts"
Date of source: Sunday, April 25, 1999
Throughout Islam’s 1400 years in Egypt, the nation has witnessed the cohesiveness of its national fabric and solidarity between Muslims and Christians.
1. Al-Azhar calls for Jihad against Serbia
Date of source: Thursday, April 15, 1999 to Wednesday, April 21, 1999
Muhammed Sayyid Tantawi, the sheikh of Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious religious institution has called on Muslim leaders to declare jihad (holy war) in support of their Muslim brethren in war-torn Kosovo.
4. Assiuti sheikh gathers all in one spirit
Date of source: Sunday, January 24, 1999 to Saturday, January 30, 1999
Sheikh Yassin Al-Tohamy gave a Sufi dhikr performance that energized the Al-Azhar neighborhood. One of his followers, Sheikh Mahmoud, was present. Years ago he converted from Christianity to Islam. One of the attractions of Sheikh Yassin’s chants is the ability to be faithful to Eastern musical...
3. Sheikh Yousef Al- Badri: I will not leave Abd Al- Sabour Shahin until he repents
Date of source: Sunday, January 24, 1999
During the last ten years, Sheikh Yousef Al- Badri has not had any chance to attack his enemies and appears as the superior religious scholar to the extent that he became, according to many people, a talkative phenomena that does not stop talking. He became unable to distinguish between his...
11. Says former Coptic Parliamentarian Edward El-Zahabi, who was honored on the occasion of the celebration of the Prophet’s Day: * My study of Islam corrected a number of misconceptions I held about Islam * I support the implementation of the Sharia
Date of source: Wednesday, January 20, 1999
The state honored the Coptic writer, Counselor Edward Ghali El-Zahabi, former Chief of the Court of State (hai’it Qadaya el-Dawla), an authority on the study of the rights of non-Muslims in an Islamic society, and a former member of the People’s Assembly, on the occasion of the Holy Mulid of the...
10. Egypt will always be a unified country like a rock
Date of source: Monday, January 19, 1998
Yesterday, at dawn, the Muslims were performing the festival prayer, and in the evening, the Christians were celebrating" The Day of Epiphany. Accordingly, the way of the Egyptian’s living has changed. The iftar (breakfasting) tables became tables for love, sharing and brotherhood between the...
2. Hezba sheikh returns with vengeance
Date of source: Sunday, January 17, 1999 to Saturday, January 23, 1999
After several months of silence sheikh Yousef el-Badri resumed his hobby of scanning the society for profane concepts. This time Badri turned against Abdel Sabour Shahin for his book "My father Adam". The MET spoke with Badri.

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