Date of source: Saturday, July 6, 2002 to Friday, July 12, 2002
Rose El-Youssef´s special file on extremism for this week shows how the magazine resisted extremism. It also discussed the reasons for Egypt´s success in overcoming terrorism, the issue of the cassettes containing lectures by sheikhs who claim to preach in the name of religion, the...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 26, 2002
The Egyptian police detained five supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Alexandria and four of its leaders were sentenced to an additional prison term. The detentions took place five days before the parliamentary elections.
Date of source: Monday, June 24, 2002
The female nominee of the Muslim Brotherhood in Alexandria accused government agencies of trying to stop her from gaining a parliamentary seat. She also accused the government of hindering another brotherhood nominee. She said that she had failed to get support from women´s organizations...
Date of source: Saturday, June 22, 2002 to Friday, June 28, 2002
Rose El-Youssef created a special file on extremism and terrorism. The file discusses cassette tapes that degrade women in Egyptian society, the fact that some lawyers looking for fame collaborate with extremists, that some scholars oppose scholarly development and that terrorists have turned to...
Date of source: Sunday, June 23, 2002
The founder of Al-Shari´a Party regretted that the editor-in-chief of Al-Mussawar´s interview with the leaders of Al-Gama´at Al-Islamiya ignored the legitimacy of Jihad in Palestine. The general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood laughed at those who think that the Gama´at Al-Islamiya can play the...
Date of source: Saturday, April 27, 2002 to Friday, May 3, 2002
The Religious Brotherhood Organization discussed in a seminar how Arabs should explain the West the Israeli assault on Christian and Islamic holy places. Why did Christians in the West not demonstrate in support of the Church of the Nativity? What is the relationship between that lack of support...
Date of source: Sunday, April 28, 2002
Al-Arabi wrote that the Brotherhood did not participate in the demonstrations against the events in Palestine. Yet, other papers claimed that the Brotherhood was behind most of the demonstrations. Brotherhood members explained that the Palestinian issue is always at the top of their agenda and...
Date of source: Saturday, May 4, 2002
Because of the criticism in the Egyptian press on Coptic migrants we continued our overview of contributions on the Copts Daily Digest (see for the first overview RNSAW, 2002, week 14A, art. 11). Many responses in the Digest are strongly polarizing.
Date of source: Saturday, April 13, 2002 to Friday, April 19, 2002
The administration of the University of Alexandria told its students to notify the security bodies before starting any demonstration to express their objection to the events taking place in Palestine, so that security bodies may be able to secure them. However the Brotherhood, via cell phones,...
Date of source: Saturday, April 20, 2002
Osama Salama´s words are sharp, full of anger about Coptic emigrants. People in Egypt, other Arab countries, Europe, the US and Israel itself protest against the Israeli atrocities against the Palestinians. But where are the voices of the emigrant Copts and Arab Christians? We checked the Copts...