Date of source: Monday, February 1, 1999
After the passage of more than 20 years since the first attempt at issuing a unified Personal Status Law binding all Christian denominations, an agreement has finally been reached in the last couple of days. Rose al-Yūsif obtained the full text of the Personal Status Law for the Copts and describes...
Date of source: Sunday, January 31, 1999
The author of this article objects to folk stories about the prophets. He wants to purify Islam from such folk stories.
Date of source: Saturday, January 23, 1999
A new book appeared in the French markets. It is dealing with terrorism and connecting it with the Islamic terrorism. The importance of this book is due to the importance of its author who is the head of the international observatory of terrorism.
Date of source: Monday, January 19, 1998
Yesterday, at dawn, the Muslims were performing the festival prayer, and in the evening, the Christians were celebrating" The Day of Epiphany. Accordingly, the way of the Egyptian’s living has changed. The iftar (breakfasting) tables became tables for love, sharing and brotherhood between the...
Date of source: Monday, January 18, 1999
Nasr Abu Zaid didn’t feel vengeance despite the fact that Abd el-Sabour Shahin apostatized him from the pulpit of a mosque. He defends Shahin’s freedom of thought." He who asks a person to repent is the one who should repent because he places himself in the position of God and the prophet." Abu...
Date of source: Thursday, January 7, 1999
Islamist lawyer Montasser el-Zayat, the de-facto spokesman of the Al-Gama’at al-Islamiya, showed dozens of letter of members of Amnesty International calling for a dialogue between the government and the leaders of the Gama’at al-Islamiya in order to avoid more bloodshed among civilians.
Date of source: Monday, January 11, 1999
Wa’il El-Ibrashi explains in this article the thoughts of Dr. Abdel Shahin who wrote a book on Adam who was born from a father and a mother and not from clay as the Qur’an teaches. Dr. Shahin’s book has been attacked by sheikh Morgan from Saudi Arabia.
Date of source: Monday, January 4, 1999
Sheikh Yousef el-Badri asked his former colleague Dr. Abdel Sabour Shahin to repent over a book he wrote about Adam. If Shahin doesn’t repent, Badri will bring him before court and ask the judge to divorce Shahin from his wife such as the two sheikhs did together with Dr. Nasr Abu Zaid a few years...
Date of source: Monday, January 4, 1999
In the previous parts of this debate Maurice Sadek, President of the center of Human Rights and National Unity had accused the Egyptian government of being racist and has asked for its resignation. Sadek continued in this part his dialogue on the religious persecution law that he describes as an...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 5, 1999
Montazar Al-Zayat, lawyer and spokesman of the Gama’at al-Islamiya, requests the Egyptian security authorities to seize the opportunity of the initiative to stop violence.