Date of source:
Judiciary independence and national pride are dominating the Egyptian reactions to the US threat
to cut aid to Egypt on protest to the seven-year imprisonment sentence given to Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Ibrahim’s American
wife says that the crisis will be solved in Egypt without American pressure.
Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 2004
No one can offer an explanation for the reasons of this decision except the heads of opposition parties, most of whom deliberately did not attend the meetingin which the exclusion of the Brotherhood was approved.
Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2000
The Ministry of Culture took of all the published issues of the novel "A banquet for the seaweed" by the Syrian writer after the controversy which the story provoked. The Minister had to order the formation of a committee to investigate the case of the novel. In addition, the Minister denied the...