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Date of source: Wednesday, June 1, 2005
This insider view about the Muslim Brotherhood’s game of interests comes from their lawyer’s book and his experiences with them. In his account, Muntasir al-Zayyāt believes that President Sādāt released the imprisoned Brotherhood members and allowed them to the political space to counterbalance the...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 22, 2002
People in the Gama’at al-Islamiya have been talking in the past three months about the initiative to end violence and ideological revisions made by the Gama’at Al-Islamiya and the Jihad group. In spite of these initiatives, security forces foiled attempts to revive the activities of organizations...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 24, 2002
The leader of the Islamic Liberation Party is a famous fundamentalist lawyer who was detained many times under the Emergency Law as a dangerous person for security reasons. Lawyer Montasser Al-Zayyat presented a request to the State Security Prosecution to allow him to examine the investigation...
Date of source: Thursday, April 1, 2004
President Hosni Mubarak has decided to grant a retrial to the leader of Tala’e Al-Fateh Al-Islamy [vanguards of Islamic conquest], Ahmad Hussein Agiza, and revoke a ruling issued by the Higher Military Court that sentenced him to life imprisonment with hard labor. Mubarak’s decision caused...
Date of source: Thursday, May 13, 2004
Montaser Al-Zayyat, the lawyer of fundamentalists in Egypt, responded to the accusations directed to him by the Palestinian fundamentalist Abu Qatada, currently detained in Britain. Al-Zawahry said that Abu Qatada and others similar to him are blowing in fire and ignite strife in spite of the fact...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 12, 2004
In a long message leaked from the Belmarch Prison in southeast London, Muslim fundamentalist Abu Qatada Al-Falastini [the Palestinian], praised Ayman Al-Zawahry and described him as “the sage of the Islamic movement.” Abu Qatada responded to criticism directed against Al-Zawahry written by Montaser...
Date of source: Sunday, October 17, 2004
The heated
controversy in Egypt over the statements of the writer Usama Anwar Okasha has been escalated. In
a press article, Okasha attacked the Companion of the Prophet Amr Ibn Al-‘As and made some
accusations against him, which some people considered an insult to Amr Ibn Al-‘As.
- See art. 7...
Date of source: Friday, January 16, 2004
Al-Wafd continues discussing the attitudes of Islamic movements towards the issue of democracy and renouncement of violence. The Gama’a Al-Islamiya has always played a tough, significant, role in the Egyptian social and political life since it joined the Jihad group in an alliance, which led to the...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 25, 2004
The battle of the Bar Association elections has started early. The elections are supposed to take place next year, but it seems that the first steps are already being taken. The tension between the Brotherhood and the Nasserites in the association’s board is deep-seated, to the extent that both...
Date of source: Sunday, April 25, 2004
Mountaser Al-Zayyat, the lawyer of the fundamentalist groups in Egypt, stated thatKhaled Al-Islamboly, the assassin of Sadat, was not a member of Al-Jihad organization or of the Gama’a Islamiya; he was closely linked to Muhammad Abdel Salam Farag, leader of Al-Jihad in 1981.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
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.