Date of source: Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Hilmī al-Nimnim answers
October’s rumor
about the Azhar preventing a book from being published.
Date of source:
Saad Eddin
Ibrahim’s lawyer presented a demand to release Saad Eddin for
health reasons. Lawyers and intellectuals are also
considering making a request to President Mubarak to
stay the execution of the prison sentence. Officials
demonstrated a positive sign to easing the crisis when
they...
Date of source: Friday, November 10, 2006
Prominent poet and thinker Adūnīs
gave a lecture at the
Bibliotheca Alexandrina on a new ideological perspective of his book entitled,
‘Al-Thābit wa-al-Mutahawwi’ [The
Constant and the Variable], published in Beirut in 1972.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 2, 2006
The author reviews a document purportedly sent by
Hasan al-Bannā, the founder and murshid of the Muslim Brotherhood, to the 1944 Arab conference in
which he demanded pan-Arab political, economic and military cooperation.
Date of source: Sunday, June 25, 2006
The honor and shame culture is examined in discussion of the insult of raising a shoe towards an opponent and it is argued that the government must take real action in the face of such behavior.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The
author presents a meeting between Ahmad ‘Abd al-
Mu‘ti Hijāzī a famous Egyptian
poet and the muftī in which Hijāzī
talked about the relationship between scholars,
extremism and terrorism. The muftī boasted that
all those who proved to be extremists or terrorists
were not graduates of...
Date of source: Friday, July 25, 2003
The article covers the recent visit of Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid to Egypt, the first since he left Egypt eight years ago.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 22, 2006
The press review tackles the controversy sparked during a symposium convened to discuss the Coptic heritage encyclopedia, issued by the Yuhannā al-Habīb publishing house.
Date of source: Friday, September 20, 2002
The Editor-in-chief of Al-Musawwar magazine conducted many interviews with the leaders of Al-Gama´at Al-Islamiya. Those interviews have been recently published in a book titled "A Conspiracy or a revision: A dialogue with the leaders of extremism at Al-Aqrab prison.”
Date of source: Friday, February 4, 2005
Al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya’s rejection of violence and terrorism has been the main topic of discussion at the Cairo International Book Fair. Editor-in-chef of al-Musawwar, Makram Muhammad Ahmad, followed up on the debates later recorded and published by al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya in four books.