Date of source: Saturday, September 6, 2003
Egypt’s Minister of Endowments’ point of view on the importance of dialogue between religions and cultures.
Two interviews published in this issue as result of the visit of two Egyptian journalists to the Netherlands.
Date of source: Monday, August 25, 2003
Appreciation of AWR work.
Media critique on an article that has given a distorted presentation of a Dutch report on anti-Semitism.
Date of source: Friday, August 1, 2003
The Middle East is in the centre of attention of the Swiss but good background information is lacking. This made Rev. Hedda Klip, who has lived for several years in Cairo, start a series of lectures for which she uses Arab-West Report as background information. She calls the information of Arab-...
Date of source: Saturday, July 26, 2003
Unfounded and unverified claims by US Pastor Ed McNeely about kidnapped Christian girls in Egypt are easily made but checking allegations costs time.
Date of source: Monday, July 21, 2003
Comment on some authors and media that mobilize the public against whoever they oppose.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 24, 2003
The Cairo Criminal Court ordered a temporal staying of the sentence handed down to Mustafa Bakri, Editor-in-Chief of Al-Usboa, and his deputy and brother Mahmoud Bakri, till deciding on the petition they have submitted to the General Prosecutor. It also ordered them an immediate release.
Date of source: Friday, May 6, 2005
Woman’s rights from the Islamic perspective is a controversial issue. This issue was misused by fanatics who want to prevent her to go to work. They also belittle her natural and intellectual faculties.On the other hand, the secularists exploited this issue, calling for the emancipation of women...
Date of source: Monday, May 9, 2005
‘Amr Adīb, Jindī said during an interview with Orbit channel that if he had his own way and would stand in the shoes of some senior state official, he would ban nearly half of the songs of Umm Kulthoum [a late popular Egyptian singer] due to their “libertine” lyrics.
Date of source: Saturday, May 7, 2005
Even the poliomyelitis serum was not safe from those blizzards of blind fatwas, which this time did not come from the Gulf countries or fanatics at home, but rather from Muslim leaders in some African countries, who decreed this vaccine as harām [religiously impermissible] on the pretext that “it...
Date of source: Saturday, April 30, 2005
Celebrating the Passover, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported an alliance of 20 organizations of the Jews from Egyptian origin, in Israel and around the world, on the demand to save the Jewish legacy in Cairo and Alexandria.