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2. Jordan poll ’satisfies’ Islamists
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999 to Wednesday, July 28, 1999
The results of last week’s municipal elections, in which Islamists won main municipalities, showed that the relationship between the government and opposition parties is on the mend. The results, which were released on Friday following a one-day extension of the vote due to low turnout, were...
38. Reporting on rights
Date of source: Thursday, July 15, 1999 to Wednesday, July 21, 1999
In an unprecedented move, three human rights groups - the Centre for Human Rights Legal Aid (CHRLA), Al-Nadim Center for the Management and Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and the Human Rights Center for the Assistance of Prisoners (HRCAP) - held a press conference to discuss their first...
36. Let my right hand forget her cunning
Date of source: Thursday, July 15, 1999 to Wednesday, July 21, 1999
The Crusades are celebrating their 900 anniversary. The 900th anniversary of the First Crusade is important because of the enduring misconceptions about each other that have been foisted upon Muslims and Christians alike through the endless retelling of events which writers have emptied entirely...
14. London militants
Date of source: Thursday, July 15, 1999 to Wednesday, July 21, 1999
Ibrahim Hussein Abdel-Hadi Eidarous, 42, and Adel Abdel-Meguid Abdel-Bari, 39, were both arrested in London Sunday [July 11, 1999] on US extradition warrants alleging they had conspired with Saudi Arabian dissident Osama Bin Laden to murder US citizens. Bin Laden is the alleged mastermind behind...
36. Discrepancies of doctrine
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 1999 to Wednesday, July 14, 1999
Otto Meinardus, a leading authority on the Coptic Church, wrote a new book called ’Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity’. The present work is a compact hardback publication which, according to the cover, is "a new, definite, one-volume history for the Millennium, surveying the twenty centuries...
35. Functionalising religion
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 1999 to Wednesday, July 14, 1999
’Putting Islam to Work’ joins a growing corpus of scholarly works on social change in Egypt and the Middle East which shun those modernization paradigms which inaccurately polarize Muslim societies and their educational institutions into false dichotomies of modern versus traditional, secular...
19. Tracing the holy trail
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 1999 to Wednesday, July 14, 1999
The Egyptian private sector is taking the lead in restoring the Holy Family sites which are being promoted as a destination for religious tourism in June 2000. On 1 June next year, modern-day pilgrims from around the globe will follow the route the Holy Family took from Sinai through the Delta to...
10. The right to remain silent
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 1999 to Wednesday, July 14, 1999
A British court this week ruled in favor of three London-based Islamists, turning down a police request to question them in connection with suspected involvement in terrorism. The suspects include two Egyptians who are leaders of Ansar El-Shari’a, "Upholders of Islamic Law." They are Mustafa Kamel...
3. Egypt’s first mosque to be restored
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 1999 to Wednesday, July 14, 1999
In an attempt to restore the Amr Ibn Al-As Mosque to its original state, the Culture Ministry signed a restoration contract this week with the public sector Nile Valley Company. The scheme will correct serious architectural flaws made in earlier restoration programmes as well as when the mosque was...
37. Egypt’s "Third" Way
Date of source: Thursday, July 1, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
In the second installment of her two-part interview with Al-Ahram Weekly, Minister Mervat Tellawi [the interviewee] tells Mariz Tadros [the interviewer] how it is possible to build a corporate culture of compassion.

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