Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Intellectual Fahmī Huwaydī criticizes in an interview ailing political practices and blames political parties that fail to rise up to people’s expectations due to their frail partisan performance and internal disputes and power struggles.
Date of source: Sunday, February 5, 2006
Certain parties have managed to dominate the minds of some Europeans and bring them into a state of genuine panic about losing their national identity at the hands of what they called the Islamic cultural invasion. This has been one effective result of the boycott against Denmark following the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 11, 2006
In an interview with Ākhir Sā‘a, Muslim thinker Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā has dismissed the possibility of having a religious state in Egypt for a number reasons.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
The Arabs are unaware of the importance of forming one bloc. Their deteriorating economic conditions have formed obstacles that impeded their self-confidence and consequently this resulted in a feeling of inability to stand up to the others.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Hāla Fou’ād wonders whether U.S President George W. Bush is calling for a war on terror and terrorists or Islam and Muslims.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Sergio Romano, a celebrated columnist and political analyst in one of Italy’s leading newspapers Corriere Della Sera, who paid a recent visit to Cairo, said that the US policies against Arab and Muslim countries have drawn a growing Islamic awakening, which make it harder and harder for Muslims to...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
The author, Hasan ‘Allām, is reviewing a book by Coptic figure Dr. Nabīl Luqā Bibāwī, which refutes allegations that he claims are propagated by Jews and fanatic writers about the Virgin Mary.
Date of source: Sunday, January 8, 2006
Egyptian authorities have detained hundreds of Sudanese refugees in several camps in preparation to deport those who have no UNHCR registry documents. About three million Sudanese are living in Egypt; most of them are crushed by abject poverty, including 50 million refugees and asylum seekers, with...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 10, 2006
The Brotherhood participation in the democratic process, if genuine, constitutes a qualitative leap that entails the renunciation of violence, refraining from the takfīr [to rule that someone is infidel] ideology and accepting peaceful political activities as a means to reach power.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
After the September 11, 2001 incidents, a fierce war on terror has started and it even grew fiercer with after the Madrid 11, 2004 bombings. Some believed that the terror networks have been diluted, only to be shocked by the July 7, 2005 bombings in the heart of London, which revealed the emergence...