Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
Sheikh Omar Abd Al-Rahman, the leader of the Gama’at al-Islamia who is detained in the United Stated, asserted his fatwa that establishing parties by members the Islamic movement is not religiously accepted.
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
Recent arrests of Muslim Brotherhood members appear linked to the government’s decision to allow lawyers’ syndicate election to take place.
Date of source: Friday, October 29, 1999
Universities are the place where secret marriages between university students are one of the problems that threatened the moral life of these students; especially because students in that phase of life are driven by the uncontrolled emotions of the youth. In 1997 a social researcher found 31...
Date of source: Thursday, October 21, 1999
Amin Hammad, a member of the People’s Assembly, asked Prime Minister Dr. Atef Abeed and Counselor Farouq Seef Al- Nasr, Minister of Justice, to seek a constitutional, juristic resolution concerning the fatwa of the Grand Sheikh of the Azhar. Amin Hammad explained that this fatwa means that bank...
Date of source: Monday, September 13, 1999
An analysis of the city of Port Said, and Al-Sayyed Hussein Mahmoud Soliman, the 40-year-old clothes vendor who stirred up public resentment when he attacked President Hosni Mubarak’s motorcade during a visit on September 6 to Port Said last week. Soliman was hot dead by Mubarak’s bodyguards.
Date of source: Sunday, August 22, 1999
The discussion at the press conference of the New York Council of Churches on June 28 [transcript presented in last week’s RNSAW] was mainly with members of the American Coptic Union. Before the press conference Drs. Cornelis Hulsman interviewed Rafique Iscander, chairman and founder of the...
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 1999
The hopes and expectations for Mubarak’s coming period of presidency are summarized by a well known Christian columnist.
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 1999
Human Rights Organizations have the lion’s share in spreading rumors and lies abroad and, in this way, support extremism. The game is to cry about the lost democracy and freedom and put terrorism in the shape of human rights. They have found their target in trying to abolish the emergency law which...
Date of source: Thursday, August 5, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
31 young people were killed in a 24 July accident. The accident was the fourth major crash on Upper Egyptian highways this month. Egypt has the highest highway fatality rate of any country in the world that reports such statistics.
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
[in Al-Ahram, July 21, 1999]
The author, who is Chairman of the General Council in the Ministry of Insurance and Social Affairs, writes in answer to criticism in Egypt and suggests that "The new NGO law is an honor to every Egyptian."