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Some clerics - shaykhs and priests - have suddenly turned into experts in economics, sociology, chemistry and physics as well as politicians who advise people to follow their opinions through Fatāwá, the observance of which is obedience to God and their breach considered apostasy.
Rif‘at al-Said, the spokesman for the Egyptian opposition parties? alliance, said he met with the U.S. Ambassador in Cairo David Welch for a couple of hours.
After the efforts the Brotherhood exerted to cement its ties with the three major opposition parties, the Wafd, the Tagammu and the Nasserist parties, opposition parties decided to exclude the Muslim Brotherhood from a body including all opposition parties pursuing political reform.
Egyptian newspapers and magazines have continued discussing the consequences of the announcement of the Brotherhood’s initiative for political reform from a rented hall at the Journalists? Syndicate. The event triggered a crisis between the government and the Syndicate.
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.
Al-Ahali has reported that the security services foiled an attempt to supply runaway members of the Gama?at al-Islāmīyah in Upper Egypt with weapons and ammunition. It has added that Muhammad al-Islamboli is against the ideological reconsiderations of the group. The Gama?at al-Islāmīyah have...
Three widely spread Egyptian papers, al-Ahram, al-Akhbar and al-Gomhuria, gave special attention to the Christian celebration of Easter. So did the publications of three political parties. al-Wafd, al- Ahali and al-Arabi. This text gives a list of the articles published in the six papers.
The symposium held by the Orthodox Church’s Diocese of Youth experienced disagreements between participants over the lack of Coptic participation in political life.
Article two of the Egyptian Constitution is not subject to the proposed constitutional amendments. It is, however, the main subject of heated arguments and discussions in Egyptian society. A debate was held at The American University in Cairo [AUC] about the proposed amendments.
The article presents a dialogue with Ahmad Abū Ḥajjī, who started as an Islamist, then became a Marxist, and is now an NDP member of parliament.

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