Date of source: Monday, June 21, 2004
Safwat Higazi is now the sheikh favored by all members of the upper class. He goes to their houses to deliver his fatwas and he is working to become a substitute for Amr Khaled. Higazy represents no real threat to the new preacher. Now is his chance to occupy the scene in the coming days.
Date of source: Thursday, December 23, 2004
This report explains the escalations following the alleged conversion of a priest’s wife to Islam. Much background is given to the cultural context that explain why such an issue is so sensitive in Egypt. The report also shows that several of the organizers of the demonstration in Cairo have done...
Date of source: Saturday, April 23, 2005
"Sunnā‘ al-Hayāh" [makers of life], a program presented by ‘Amr Khālid, is aiming at the progress of the
nation and is dealing with the cultural, psychological, educational, industrial, agricultural and living problems. Actually,
"Sunnā‘ al-Hayāh" does not make progress, it creates only illusions...
Date of source: Friday, April 15, 2005
‘Amr Khālid was warmly received in Yemen, especially the president. His visit to Cairo was the opposite of this; rapid, signing an agreement with the World Health Organization to help them in using his health project idea all through the region.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 20, 2001
Sheikh Khalid Al-Gindi said that the Islamic telephone line service was halal and that the Sheikh of Azhar said that the service was a good and permissible activity. He added that Amr Khalid was a phenomenon worth studying and that those who criticize him could not criticize a belly dancer.
Date of source: Sunday, September 9, 2001
It was said that Sheikh Amr Khalid used the scientific method and a free mature way of thinking in explaining the Qur’an and Sunna. However the author provides many examples of how Khalid imitates the ways used by preachers for many centuries. He proves that he is very far from using the scientific...
Date of source: Saturday, September 1, 2001 to Friday, September 7, 2001
A national newspaper published an advertisement to the effect that different religious questions could be answered by Sheikh Khalid Al-Gindi and a group of the Azhar sheikhs over the Islamic telephone line. It seems that Sheikh Khalid Al-Gindi was chosen to replace Amr Khalid through the Islamic...
Date of source: Saturday, August 25, 2001 to Friday, August 31, 2001
In its seminar for this week, Rose El-Youssef discussed the reasons for the attraction of young people to sheikhs like Amr Khalid and how to deal with such sheikhs. All the religious men and intellectuals that were present agreed that a religious, political and cultural vacancy was behind this...
Date of source: Monday, August 20, 2001
The author wonders for whose interests Sheikh Amr Khalid was prevented from preaching. He believes that Khalid was trying to fill the shoes of the late sheikh Sha’arawi, and that the youth have found a replacement who speaks their language.
Date of source: Saturday, August 11, 2001 to Friday, August 17, 2001
The article sheds light on the danger of private mosques through the example of Sheikha Fifi. Together with a famous actress she built a mosque. She once invited Sheikh Amr Khalid to preach there and he accepted this. A mosque inspector claimed that the owners of private mosques are powerful people...