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29. The iconographer “set”
Date of source: Thursday, January 19, 2006
Coptic iconography lost the pioneer Izāk Fānūs. The following lines shed light on the artist and some of his masterpieces as represented by the Egyptian media.
26. Livingstone joins Straw in his calls for Muslim women to take off the niqab, female da‘iyah says woman’s face is not ‘awrah
Date of source: Friday, October 13, 2006
The review takes up the issue of the niqāb as Jack Straw, Leader of the House of Commons, called on Muslim women in Britain to take off their veils in workplaces, while in Egypt, the President of Hilwān University made a decision to prohibit all niqāb-wearing students from entering the...
2. A plan to kill Hassan Hanafy in the same way as the plan to kill Naguib Mahfouz
Date of source: Monday, December 22, 1997
Subtitle: 1- The leader of the organization says, "When Dr. Yehia Ismael said that Hanafy was an apostate, we decided to kill him" 2- The one who was supposed to carry out the operation says, "The plan was to kill him with penknives. I have trained on how to do this in Nozha" 3- An official...
1. "An apostate," a word that I will never forget!
Date of source: Wednesday, July 30, 1997
Dr. Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid laments having been forced to leave Egypt for the Netherlands after being accused of apostasy.
5. Closing the file of Hassan Hanafy
Date of source: Friday, June 27, 1997
The attack on Dr. Hassan Hanafy seems to have subsided. The Azhar Scholars Front continues to denounce Dr. Hanafy, but they will not bring him to court, perhaps because of the strong opposition they have met from Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi and Dr. Mohammed Sa’id Tantawi, Sheikh of the Azhar....
6. Layla against the stream
Date of source: Saturday, August 5, 2006 to Friday, August 11, 2006
The author discusses nude art and how this issue has been handled by the arts faculty at Cairo University. She tells the story of a girl who drew her friend nude and presented it as her graduation project.
46. I am Egyptian…I did travel to Israel, but as if it was a European country, says the head of Cairo Jewish community
Date of source: Wednesday, June 1, 2005
This article is an interview with the head of Cairo Jewish Community, Carmen Weinstein, who speaks about the conditions of the few Jews still living in Egypt and their relationship with the Egyptian government and Israel.
5. The Arabic Language Institute has prepared a dictionary on media terminology: An urgent need for translating from foreign languages into correct accurate Arabic. Foreign publishers steal dictionaries from the Arabic Language Institute
Date of source: Tuesday, June 6, 2006
The article sheds light on the dictionary on media terminology prepared by the Arabic Language Institute. The article also deals with the importance of translating other specialized terminology into Arabic.
16. The collapse of art inside the art college
Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
The article explores the opinions of graduates from the College of Fine Arts, who later became prominent figures in Egypt, on the ordeal the faculty is going through and the growing number of people believing that art is harām.
11. The Islamic threat, myth...or reality?
Date of source: Wednesday, October 10, 2001
In his book "The Islamic threat, myth...or reality?" John Esposito answers the question of whether Islam, after the fall of Communism as a universal power, has become the greatest threat for the West. He represents a methodical prognosis of the political positions in the most important nations...

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