Date of source: Monday, January 22, 2007
The declaration to establish the Muslim Brotherhood party has triggered a big reaction in the media. Some consider the move to be a political maneuver, due to the dilemma the Brotherhood passed through after students connected to it held a parade at the Azhar University. Others saw it as a step...
Date of source:
Swift intensive efforts were made this week to contain a Muslim-Christian crisis due to a
blasphemous article, by
a Muslim writer, about a former monk. Thousands of angry youths protested against
the article, the Government was
accused of being in collusion with the paper, Pope Shenouda...
Date of source: Monday, October 16, 2006
The review deals with a court ruling against Mustafá Bakrī, the editor-in-
chief of
al-Usbū‘ newspaper, sentencing him to six months in prison for "slandering
Hishām
Tal‘at," when he accused him of falsely claiming to be a journalist and issuing his
newspaper
Misr al-Fatāh without prior...
Date of source: Monday, May 29, 2006
The article focuses on the referral of Sawt al-Umma
journalists to the criminal court over
accusations that they slandered judges by publishing a so-called
black list of judges involved in rigging the last
parliamentary elections.
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
The authors write about all Egyptian parties’ rejection to deal with the American International Republican Institute (IRI) except one party, the Social Constitutional Party, whose leader, Mamdouh Qināwī, welcomed cooperation with the American institution.
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: Monday, April 24, 2006
The press review
deals
with the incidents of Alexandria, from an analytical point of view, in an attempt to probe the reasons for
the assault on three churches by an allegedly schizophrenic young man called Mahmoud Salāh, who killed
one
person and injured scores others while shouting Fidāk Yā...
Date of source: Monday, May 5, 2003
Journalist and political analyst Hussein Abdel Raziq, assistant secretary general of the Tagammu Party, comments on the meeting between the Muslim Brotherhood and European diplomats. He believes that the Muslim Brotherhood is an international group and that is why it is obvious that it has dialogue...
Date of source: Saturday, August 13, 2005
A man broke into the Regent’s Park mosque in central London during the Friday sermon and threatened to blow up the mosque.
Date of source: Friday, July 15, 2005
Some people think that the Muslim Brothers have been successful in proving themselves in the political arena in Egypt. They may have paid a price, but to them, it is well worth it. They surprised everyone by organizing unprecedented protests in 18 governances involving 70,000 protestors on...