Date of source: Saturday, July 28, 2007
Dr. Fāṭimah Sayyid Ahmad considers the role of the Muslim Brotherhood in politics, where this role originated, and how the Brotherhood justifies their calls to establish an Islamic state.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 15, 2005
U.S. Ambassador David Welch declared that the United States supports the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies as well as five other civil society groups working in the fields of human rights, freedom, and development in Egypt.
Date of source:
Judiciary independence and national pride are dominating the Egyptian reactions to the US threat
to cut aid to Egypt on protest to the seven-year imprisonment sentence given to Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Ibrahim’s American
wife says that the crisis will be solved in Egypt without American pressure.
Date of source: Thursday, March 1, 2001
The victory of the Muslim Brotherhood in the elections of the Bar Association revealed their increasing political influence in Egypt following their recent victory in the parliamentary elections. The Bar association elections revealed the ruling party’s crisis, as it failed to confront the Islamic...
Date of source: Saturday, July 29, 2006 to Friday, August 4, 2006
The article is about Hasan Nasr Allāh and Hizb
Allāh’s foundation. The
author assesses Iranian influence upon the Hizb Allāh.
Date of source: Saturday, June 3, 2006 to Friday, June 9, 2006
Rose al-Yousuf devotes a file to the increasing phenomenon of the hijāb in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, May 20, 2006 to Friday, May 26, 2006
The author wonders whether Egyptians are experiencing a stage of creative
chaos, coinciding
with the visit of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Cairo last year. She wonders whether
the people
nurturing this chaos realize that the price of this chaos would be paid by everyone.
Date of source: Thursday, May 4, 2006
The
People’s Assembly’s approval of the two-year extension of the 25-
year-old emergency law has provoked a
furious reaction among Egyptian opposition, including the legally banned
Muslim Brotherhood. Many people
argue that the extension of the law will breed more violence in Egyptian society...
Date of source: Saturday, July 23, 2005 to Friday, July 29, 2005
Jamāl al-Banna’s book Jawāz Imāmit al-Mar’a [the legality of women leading prayers] debates many issues, especially that of gender equality in Islam. He uses Dr. Amīna Wadoud leading men and women in prayers [in New York], as an example [for Muslim women].
Date of source: Saturday, July 9, 2005 to Friday, July 15, 2005
Dr. Muhammad Shahrour, the Syrian Islamic thinker was interviewed by Rose al-Yousuf and affirmed that the religious institutions in the Arab World - like the Azhar in Egypt, [and the Shi’ite centers in] al-Najaf in Iraq, and Qom in Iran – are still conservative with tools of knowledge that did not...