Date of source: Saturday, November 18, 2006
This review deals with Minister of Culture Fārūq Husnī’s latest remarks in which he described the Ḥijāb as "a relapse backward," stimulating public controversy and anger in parliament. The ruling party, opposition and independents agreed on the need to have the minister tender his resignation...
Date of source: Sunday, September 21, 1997
Romani
Shafiek Agieb is a student who was persecuted by the University
of Asiut, Faculty of Education, after being
refused the right to nominate himself as a lecturer and then a
university professor. As a result, many
Egyptian Copts offered to help the student finish his higher education...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 17, 1997
Subtitle:Saad Zaghloul distributed
bibles to excellent students and made, for the first time, the study of
Christianity a scholastic
subjectNot mentioning the religion on the identity card is an important request.
Syria did it, but
Egypt continues to refuseThere is a belief that Copts are rich...
Date of source: Saturday, September 9, 2006
Reactions vary between accepting or rejecting the idea of deleting the religion reference from Egyptian identity cards. People of both opinions express their arguments in this article.
Date of source: Sunday, July 9, 2006
A
few days ago, the Shūrá [Consultative] Council
discussed a draft law on amending some
articles of the penal code pertaining to publication-related cases. A large
number of journalists staged a
sit-in in protest against the proposed amendments, describing them as a setback to
the freedom of...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 4, 2006
The Shūrá [Consultative] Council has recently agreed to discuss proposed amendments to some articles of the penal code pertaining to the imprisonment of journalists in publication-related cases. In an attempt to express their opposition to the proposed draft law, a large number of journalists on...
Date of source: Sunday, April 23, 2006
In the upcoming few days, a governmental committee will conclude the final
draft of the new panel law on publishing crimes. The law is to cancel the imprisonment penalty for
journalists.
Date of source: Sunday, April 23, 2006
Analysis of the attacks on churches in Alexandria in which one man was killed, skepticism that the man was actually ‘deranged’, as claimed by the Ministry of the Interior and condemnation of the culture of fanaticism that leads to such events.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 13, 2002
The Brotherhood MP´s managed to pass a law during the last parliamentary term giving the graduates of the Azhar high schools the right to join the police academy. They are now preparing themselves for negotiations with the government to allow Azhar graduates to join governmental universities.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Egypt has already made positive clear strides in the field of respect for human rights, as demonstrated by the government initiative to set up the National Council for Human Rights. Now training courses in Human Rights will be introduced to Egyptian universities in order to raise awareness.