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Date of source: Tuesday, July 3, 2001
Tomorrow the Egyptian Administrative Court is to end the controversy about Al-Nabaa newspaper. It will also look into two cases filed by Mamdouh Mahran. In the first he tries to override a verbal ruling by the Minister of Interior prohibiting the press house from operating and in the second he...
Date of source: Friday, July 6, 2001
Pope Shenouda described the way President Mubarak handled the crisis as very wise and described the reaction of the Journalists’ Syndicate as brave and strict. He thanked the Muslims of Egypt who supported the Copts during their crisis, the Grand Sheikh of the Azhar and the Mufti.
Date of source: Saturday, June 30, 2001
The Egyptian authority released two leaders of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya who were sentenced to 15 years in the case of Sadat’s assassination. The release came one week before the four-year anniversary of the peace initiative declared by the leaders of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya.
Date of source: Sunday, April 22, 2001
Essam Al-Erain expressed his hope that the authorities detention of two of the group’s members after they submitted their papers to run in the Shura Council elections, was an isolated incident that did not represent a general attitude aimed at preventing the Brotherhood from participating in the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 28, 2001
Rumors indicated that Montasser Al-Zayyat is stopping his legal practice in Egypt and is seeking refuge in Qatar because of the pressure on him after fundamentalists abroad disagreed with the armistice initiative. Al-Zayyat denied planning to escape Egypt and seeking refuge in Qatar. He said he...
Date of source: Saturday, March 3, 2001
The Egyptian Gama’a Al-Islamiya criticized appealing against Al-Kosheh rulings, considering it a procedure taken in a negative direction. It considered not trying the three priests, whom the court accused of inciting Al-Kosheh riots, a "compliment to the Coptic minority at the expense of the Muslim...
Date of source: Sunday, February 4, 2001
Nawal Al-Sa’adawi attacked the cultural scene in Egypt. She criticized the lack of freedom of writers, and protested about confiscation of her books. Another incident that upset the government was the High Administrative Court’s reversal of a government decision to change ownership of Al-Nour...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 2, 2000
The members of the Islamist Lawyer’s Front overcame the crisis, which led to its secretary’s, Montasser Al-Zayyat, attempted resignation. At a meeting of members of the Front Al-Zayyat’s resignation was rejected. They declared their support for Zayyat in the coming Bar Association elections.
Date of source: Sunday, February 4, 2001
Mohammed Abbas, who started the crisis of the "Banquet for the seaweed," wrote a new book. It is a collection of fifty articles published in Al-Shaab before and during the crisis. He dedicated his book, to the students of the Azhar, among others, as they demonstrated in response to these articles.
6. Preparations for giving a celebration after the sentences in the case of Al-Kosheh are pronounced
Date of source: Sunday, January 7, 2001
The Criminal Court of Sohag held a deliberation session during which it confirmed the verdicts in the second case of Al-Kosheh. The verdicts will be officially declared in the session to be held next Tuesday. Executive and national bodies, in Sohag, started to prepare for the celebrations after...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.