Date of source: Thursday, May 4, 2006
Sharm al-Sheikh, Dahab and Tābā were all attacked recently and the writer wonders whether it is possible to renegotiate some articles of the Camp David convention.
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
The patriarch of Jerusalem shows his disagreement with the prohibition on Copts from
visiting
Jerusalem but Pope Shenouda maintains his stance.
Date of source: Thursday, May 4, 2006
The Egyptian government is appealing a court
ruling in favor of
recognizing the Bahā’ī faith. Islamic clerics deem confessors of this religion
apostates.
Suspicious over Bahā’īs being agents of Zionist interests in Egypt are raised.
Date of source: Thursday, May 4, 2006
The author discusses the events of 9/11 and argues that the attacks were the pretext for a
frightening
campaign against Islam and Muslims.
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: Thursday, May 4, 2006
Lieutenant general Salāh Halbī denies that a special Egyptian war plan was designed after the October war and warns against the Muslim Brotherhood.
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
The majority of Muslims believe in the second coming of Jesus
Christ at the end of
time. A number of Muslim scholars refute this belief, arguing that there is no definitive
evidence in the
Qur’ān for the second advent of Christ.
Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006
This press review deals with the history of the al-
Tawhīd Wa al-Jihād organization,
which is blamed for the deadly bomb attacks on the tourist
resort of Dahab in Sinai that killed a number of
Egyptians and foreigners and wounded many others.
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
The European Union was divided over the US-led war in Iraq, but
united against
Hamās, the former prime minister of The Netherlands, Prof. Andreas Van Agt said
yesterday in a
lecture at the Cairo International Lions Club.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 2, 2006
A
review of
Laurance Pintak’s ’Islam, War and Opinions’, published by AUC press.