Date of source: Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Nabīl Zakī believes that Egypt is now at a crossroads between a religious and a civil state.
Date of source: Saturday, December 3, 2005 to Friday, December 9, 2005
Shoura Council Speaker Safwat al-Sharīf has received an official notice from lawyer Nabīh al-Wahsh calling for denying the Bahā’is any chance to set up a political party in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, November 20, 2005
Despite Pope Shenouda’s support for President Husnī Mubārak in the presidential elections, only two Copts are running in the parliamentary elections with the support of the National Democratic Party.
Date of source: Saturday, September 11, 2004
Seven months have passed since the announcement of the president’s decision to revoke imprisonment as penalty in “crimes of publishing [violations],” nevertheless laws allowing the imprisonment of journalists for crimes of publishing are still in effect.
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 2004
It seems that we must look fondly on the days of Safwat Al-Sherif and his manner of dealing with disagreements with journalists and intellectuals. This is particularly true when we consider the behaviour of the current Minister of Information, Mamdouh Al-Beltagi. Egyptian public opinion was...
Date of source: Thursday, March 11, 2004
The media secretariats in the NDP’s branches in the governorates started discussing the working paper that concerns the development of the religious discourse.
The religious discourse that we need should play a central role in forming our religious conscience, which cannot develop without the...
Date of source: Thursday, January 8, 2004
Egyptian media and political leaders paying attention to Coptic Christmas.
Watani’s Editor-in-chief Yusuf Sidhom’s discusses the term ’ persecution’ in describing the position of Christians in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 5, 2005
The Egyptian authorities barred two Muslim Brotherhood leaders from traveling overseas although their names
were not blacklisted as banned from traveling by a judicial order. The students of the AUC protested yesterday in downtown
Cairo urging the actions of political reforms, repeating the same...
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2005
Frustration has set in. In the Egypt of today, the political arena has stagnated, and all hope of constitutional reform that would lead to the long- awaited political change has gone to the wind.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 6, 2004
Al-Wafd starts a series of articles on the future of movements of political Islam in Egypt, their attitude towards democracy, participation and circulation of authority. In this article it reviews the most important Islamic movements that adopted violence in order to reach power and their attitude...