Date of source: Saturday, July 26, 2008
President Mubarak’s initiative to scrap prison sentences in press publishing cases is one of the most serious reform decisions, and is worth strongly supporting, so government policies will become wiser. It is necessary to carry out wide-ranging and comprehensive reform to liberate the citizen and...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 3, 2004
Text of a lecture for students and professors of different faculties at the University of Copenhagen, November 3, 2004, about plans to establish the Center for Arab-West Understanding in Cairo, Egypt. The text explains that intercultural tensions do exist but can be combated with good information.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Saudi intellectuals preceded their Arab counterparts in submitting a number of collective demands to their government to effect political reform. The Saudi culture faces two main streams of thought: the reformist stream and the conservative stream, both cutting across the intellectuals and the...
Date of source: Saturday, May 22, 2004
Double standards; Dr. Muhammad Emara, who often criticizes Western writers for highlighting extremism in Islam because this does not represent true Islam, is highlighting extremism of the Jewish Kach movement.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 28, 2004
We should diagnose the issue of terrorism through deep analysis. We need to know the conditions that result in terrorism, which will differ from one country to another. We should stop attributing the problem to the religious discourse alone, but we should widen our circle of investigation and look...
Date of source: Sunday, May 9, 2004
In total secrecy, the Ministry of Interior released 100 prisoners and detainees from the Gama’a Islamiya, who have completed their prison sentences and detention periods. The Ministry made the released members sign a written promise that they will rejoin the trend within the group that believes in...
Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 2004
Rumors changed the car accident, in which Father Mikhael and two members of his church died, into murder.
Coptic human rights lawyer Maurice Sadeq makes false and inflammatory statements that create bitter feelings and tensions between Muslims and Christians.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 16, 2004
A few months ago, I attended four Islamic conferences and noticed that the discussions were all the same and the words were almost identical.
Date of source: Saturday, January 24, 2004
The assassination of Dutch film producer Theo van Gogh and discussions about the limits of freedom of expression.
Date of source: Sunday, January 18, 2004
Father Dr. Rufa’il Samy of Tamiya in Fayoum about churchbulding problems.
Comment on the way media report about churchbuilding.