Date of source: Sunday, July 23, 2006
The author reviews a book written by an Indian Muslim scholar discussing the position women enjoy in Islam and refuting allegations that Islam encourages polygamy.
Date of source: Monday, July 24, 2006
The author interviews the mother of a disappeared Christian girl, Sārah. The mother narrates the story and tells the author why her father escaped to the U.K. in 1996.
Date of source: Sunday, July 16, 2006
Watani interviews one of the founders of the political party Misr al-Umm, which was recently denied a license by the Administrative Court because its platform clashed with the Egyptian constitution and the sharī‘ah due to its emphasis on secularism.
Date of source: Friday, July 7, 2006
Al-Sharq al-Awsat interviews
the Syrian
“fundamentalist” ‘Umar Bakrī, who was deported from Britain.
Date of source: Thursday, July 6, 2006
On the first
anniversary of the
July 7 London bombings, Al-Sharq al-Awsat devoted much space in its issues of July
6 to 8, 2006 to articles
analyzing a recent survey by The Times on the terrorist acts which claimed
52 lives and injured more than
700 people.
Date of source: Saturday, July 1, 2006
Watani International interviews Mounir Fakhry Abdel-Nour, the Secretary-General of the Wafd Party, and discusses with him the Party’s future plans, its strategies to engage the Egyptian public and for the upcoming elections and political reform in general.
Date of source: Saturday, July 1, 2006 to Friday, July 7, 2006
The author calls for full reconsideration of the rules and regulations of the Coptic Church.
Date of source: Saturday, July 1, 2006 to Friday, July 7, 2006
The author deals with the future prospects of the church after Pope Shenouda III, the Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark, and the possibility that the next pope could come from outside Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, June 25, 2006
A review of an, as yet unpublished book, Londonistan: How Britain is creating a terror state from within is written, by a seasoned observer of radical Islam, Melanie Phillips.
Date of source: Monday, June 26, 2006
Asmā’ ‘Abd Allāh reports on differing opinions
about
appointing a woman as head of the Anglican Church of America.