Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
The article focuses on the most famous cases
in the courts of law regarding the
Bahā’ī faith in Iran, Morocco and Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 30, 2006
The author writes about a conference
he attended in
Indonesia that has considered ways for Arab Muslim countries to benefit from the experiments of non
-Arab
Muslim countries and which discussed whether Islamic discourse could be reformed without taking the Arab
environment into account.
Date of source: Friday, May 19, 2006
The
review deals with the issue of the Bahā’ī faith in Egypt in the light of a recent court
ruling
allowing their religion to be included in official documents like identity cards, passports or birth
certificates,
amidst an outcry from the Azhar and several intellectuals.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
The paper examines the history of Christian Zionism,
an active movement that strenuously supports
Israel, and which is particularly strong in the U.S.
Date of source: Monday, May 15, 2006
The
court ruling previously pronounced by a lower administrative court giving Bahā’īs the rights to
state their religion in official documents is overturned by the Supreme Administrative Court.
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
The author examines the question of how to ensure that democracy in Middle Eastern countries does not come at the expense of secularism, personal freedoms, and equal rights for women and minorities, given that both American policy-makers and most Arabs hold to the reductionist view that democracy...
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
David Ignatius explores Iran’s seeming diplo-phobia, which makes it extremely reluctant to negotiate with the West over the issue of nuclear enrichment, and which made it drag its heels over a treaty with Iraq to end the Iran-Iraq war. He argues that for theocratic regimes or groups that claim a...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 3, 2006
The author suggests that the
increasing number of suicide operations have not achieved their
objectives and perhaps caused Islamic countries to
fail to gain sympathizers, while at the same time,
gaining the United States allies that used to be sworn enemies
in the past.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 23, 2006
The speech given by Lord Carey, former archbishop of Canterbury, at the opening of the second theological college in Alexandria.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 26, 2006
The
irrational distribution of powers between the Western bloc, represented in the
United States and Europe and the
rest of the world is the main reason behind the growing phenomenon of
suicidal mass murder, Dr. ‘Abd al
-Mun‘im Sa‘īd says.