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Minister of Education Dr. Ahmed Gamal al-Dīn asserts that any school that declines to teach Islām will be liable to prosecution adding the teaching of Islām is one of the prerequisites for obtaining license.
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Assiut Governor, Maj. General Ahmed Hammam Attiya, submitted a detailed report to Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif on the so-called incidents of sectarian strife in Assiut during a recent meeting of the Governors Council.
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On December 6, four newspapers reported about the rally of dozes of Coptic youth at the St. Mark Cathedral in protest of what they called ?the absence of a Coptic priest’s wife? who was forced to convert Islām. Wafaa Costantine, the wife, belongs to the town of Abū al-Matameer in the Delta...
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The Cairo Criminal Court has recently acquitted the 10 defendants who had faced charges of fraudulence and receiving bribes along with Saad Eddin Ibrahim, the director of the embattled Ibn Khaldoun Center where they used to work.
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Dorris is not her real name because she prefers to be unidentified and would never say where she lives, but recently she authored a book roughly called I was married to a mujahid in which she demonstrated how she fell in love with a handsome Egyptian young man.
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Two people were arrested following a 14-hour anti-terror operation by Dutch police forces, ending a standoff with suspected Islamic terrorists that lasted all day in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. Three police officers were wounded during the raid by a grenade hurled by the suspects. Moreover, the...
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Information Minister Mamduh al-Beltagui’s landmark decision to refer the TV series Bint min Shubra [A girl from Shubra], starring Laila Elwi, to the Egyptian Church and the Azhar for opinion has sparked a row. All this haggling was because the heroine Maria, a Catholic Italian, is getting married...
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Shock shrouded political circles in Egypt after Abd al-Halim Qandil, the Executive Editor-in-Chief of al-Arabi newspaper, the mouthpiece of the opposition Nasserite Party, was kidnapped, beaten and left stark naked on the Cairo-Suez desert highway on the dawn of November 2, 2004. Hundreds of public...
Date of source: Monday, October 25, 2004
The new American trend in opposing anti-Semitism needs to be opposed itself, because it is a discriminatory practice aimed at alleviating discrimination. It is bound to achieve negative results for three reasons.
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Articles appearing in the Egyptian press advocated the importance of differentiating between terrorism, which is rejected by all countries, on the one hand and on the other hand, legitimate resistance against occupation.