Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 2004
Dr. Ahmed Kamal Abu Al-Magd, former Egyptian Minister of Information and the general commissioner for dialogue of civilizations at the Arab League, called for applying the ethical values preached by the three heavenly [monotheistic] religions: Islam, Christianity and Judaism, in order to oppose...
Date of source: Friday, September 3, 2004
The kidnappers of foreign hostages in Iraq, whether they are affiliated with Al-Qa’ida or not, demand the removal of foreign military presence. They try to achieve this through kidnapping civilians whose only fault is that they are citizens of a certain country that agreed to the US’s call and sent...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 4, 2004
Could the Union of Muslim Scholars recently established in Ireland be the solution to the conflict of fatwas in the Islamic world? What are the conditions, under which this union was born, and what does its charter say, and who funds it?
These questions are answered by Dr. Muhammad Selim Al-Awa,...
Date of source: Monday, August 2, 2004
In a move that has caused much speculation, the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Mahdi Akef described Amr Moussa, the secretary general of the Arab league as a “man who swims against the current.”
Observers saw Akef’s statement as an attempt to widen the circle of movement for the...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 9, 2004
The article is an interview with Egyptian Minister of Education Dr. Hussein Kamel Bahaa Eddin. The interview discusses a number of issues such as whether the U.S. interfered in [Egypt’s] educational curricula, whether religious extremist factions have succeeded in penetrating the teaching ranks,...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
The board of the Foreign Press Association in Egypt sent the following email titled “The Foreign Press Association in Egypt is independent and will remain independent” to all its members:
The articles published in Al-Usbua on March 15 and Sawt Al-Umma on March 22 included false claims made by Mr....
Date of source: Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Preparing a newsfile on the escalations following the conversion of the wife of a priest in Abū al-Matamir.
Developments in the requested NGO status of the Center for Arab-West Understanding.
Distortions in Western and Arab media and in Muslim-Christian relations.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 15, 2004
In an attempt to correct the image of Islam in the history textbooks
of European schools, the Arab League hosted a conference with the cooperation of International
and European organizations on Muslims’ image in Europe.
Date of source: Friday, April 1, 2005
The ‘clash
of civilizations’ and ‘inter-civilization dialogue’ are two names for the successive stages of the Western campaign against
Islam and Muslims, lately escalated by the United States in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Thee Western
attitude towards Islam has restricted Muslims...
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2005
The recent release of the eight Chinese who had been taken hostage in Iraq, brought to my mind a question I had repeatedly been mulling over. For years I have been concerned with racist tendencies displayed by Arabs. Subconsciously, I admit, I curbed my thoughts on this question and opposed anyone...