Date of source: Friday, June 2, 2000
The author begins his article by recounting how the Minister of Justice settled the heated debate between the two counselors Malek Mena and Wasaf Nashed, concerning whether to apply the law of Al-Khula to Christians or not. Then he mentions the role the late priest Ibrahim Abdel Said played in...
Date of source: Sunday, May 21, 2000
The leader of Al-Wafd party deplored the recent steps taken by the Parties Affairs Committee against the Labor Party and its newspaper. The Party Affairs Committee announced on Sunday the suspension of Al-Shaab and all the other papers issued by the Labor party. The closure will be valid until all...
Date of source: Sunday, May 21, 2000
Subtitles:
-The presidency of Shukri, Hamdi and Idris is not taken into consideration,
-Al-Sha’ab and the papers of the party are suspended until the dispute is settled,
-The file of the Labor Party is transferred to the General Prosecutor.
The committee of parties decided not to take into...
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2000
After the storm that the new family law [that is, the Personal Status Law] has created for the Muslims in the sessions of the People’s Assembly and its ratification, and with the number of sessions held by the assembly and the numerous interventions from different trends, many have neglected a...
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
We discussed with Bishop Bissenti the possibility of the presence of foreign fingers in the matter, about the American law of religious persecution - whether it had tempted the Copts to start problems from inside Egypt, and about the suggestion of a delegation from [the US] Congress visiting Egypt...
Date of source: Friday, December 17, 1999
Before referring the draft of the Law Regulating the Personal Status to the People’s Assembly, President Hosni Mubarak held a meeting to ensure that the rules of Islamic Shari’a canonical were met in the draft. In the deliberations of the Azhar on the new draft there were disagreements, however, on...
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
Minister of Justice Farouq Seif Al Nasr announced on 18 October the names of four judges who would form half of a committee to organize elections in the lawyers’ syndicate.
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: Tuesday, August 31, 1999
The Court of South Cairo is judging the a case of Dr. Abu Zeid and his wife Ebtihal Ahmadi Younis against the Minister of Justice, Farouq Seif Al-Nasr in order to continue the matrimonial relationship.
Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 1999 to Wednesday, June 2, 1999
The minister of justice has announced new restrictions on the marriage of Egyptian women to foreign men, many of whom are Saudis. But the proposal has come under fire from many quarters. It could push men to seek an Urfi marriage.