Date of source: Friday, June 27, 1997
Initially Dr. Abdel Fatah Ali, former minister of health, forbade the circumcision of girls by unqualified persons, in other words, recognizing that medical practitioners could do the job. Nevertheless, especially among doctors, opposition to female circumcision is strong. Dr. Ismail Salam, Dr. Ali...
Date of source: Saturday, June 17, 2006 to Friday, June 23, 2006
The author asserts that the Muslim Brotherhood uses research and
studies centers as a mean to
practice politics, through making statements and publishing articles’ carrying
the Islamic group’s ideology.
Date of source: Saturday, May 5, 2001 to Friday, May 11, 2001
Islamist lawyers broke into two fronts; one supporting Montasser Al-Zayyat and announced him to be its secretary general. The other front removed him from his position. Al-Zayyat was accused by some members of the Islamist Lawyers’ general assembly of defaming the Islamist Lawyers and seeking...
Date of source: Thursday, April 26, 2001
The Muslim Brotherhood group was able to defeat its Islamic political rivals, the Jihad and the Gama’at Al-Islamiya, in the Bar Association. This was after a crisis started raising questions about the possibility of radical groups carrying out political work in an inappropriate way after their...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 18, 2001
A heated rivalry over the position of the general secretary of the Islamic Lawyers Association will be witnessed. The deputy who was the founder of Al-Shari’a party is the strongest rival to occupy this position.
Date of source: Thursday, April 19, 2001
The Islamic Lawyers Association decided to choose Montasser Al-Zayyat as its general secretary. It also held a meeting at which it was decided not to suspend the activities of the Association any longer and to delay electing its board members.
Date of source: Thursday, April 19, 2001
The Islamic Lawyers group resumed its activities after more than six years of suspension, due to the detention of some of its members.
Date of source: Sunday, February 4, 2001
Islamist Lawyers Abroad have renewed their trust in Montasser Al-Zayyat as secretary general of their association. The association [Islamist Lawyers Front] survived the disagreements among its members, which caused Al-Zayyat to hand in his resignation. Al-Zayyat’s resignation was rejected at a...