Date of source: Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Dr. Khālid al-Za‘farānī, a former key figure of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, out of the blue announced plans to apply to the Parties’ Affairs Committee for setting up Hizb al-Islāh wa al-‘Adāla wa al-Tanmīya [the Reform, Justice and Development Party, which he described as a “new democratic popular...
Date of source: Sunday, March 20, 2005
Al-Sa‘dāwī’s book banned by the Azhar
Nawāl al-Sa‘dāwī does not separate between the words uttered by the characters in her new book al-Riwāya [The Novel] and the statements she gives to the press about demands for justice, in her own viewpoint, for women that the book seems like a social platform...
Date of source: Thursday, March 10, 2005
The French are at a loss, as they are unable to determine the character of Tāriq Ramadān. Some have labeled him as Ramadnophobe, the new Malcolm X, the official spokesman for the axis of evil, the prince of fanatics, or a time bomb in France; while others call him a moderate promoter of the Qur’ān.
Date of source: Monday, March 7, 2005
The family of Egyptian fundamentalist Abu Hamza, imprisoned in Britain on charges of inciting to murder, said Hamza’s cry at night is in prayers and Qur’ān recitation, not in regret of things he did that led him to jail, reported British newspaper The Sun.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) has 57 Islamic countries as members, with a total population of more than one billion people. Failure of the OIC to respond to its peoples’ hopes despite its frequent meetings and despite the world media’s focus on them, has resulted in a lack of...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 16, 2005
It is ironic that when the US declared an international war on terrorism, it resulted in the increase of terrorism. All participants, in the international conference on terrorism that was recently held in Riyadh, unanimously agreed on condemning terrorism and stressing the urgency of dealing with...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Europe said that the Middle East is a region that fraught with problems and that is the reason for the necessity of political, social and economical restructuring. It is true that our region needs to be restructured. So, let us examine this within the framework of peaceful settlement that can be...
Date of source: Sunday, February 13, 2005
In his book Shāhid ‘Ala Waqf al-‘Unf: Tahawwulāt al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya fī Misr [A witness to halting violence: shifts of al- Jamā‘a Islāmīya in Egypt], writer ‘Abd al-Latīf al-Manāwī detects the inspiration of al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya.
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2005
Some recent analyses held that the U.S. administration is now busy planning to wage a new Cold War on the Muslim world, a war that would not be far from a concept of a Crusade in a modern form.
Date of source: Monday, February 7, 2005
Has the Saudi international conference on counter-terrorism conformed to the US vision of launching a war on terrorism? Was it really a new important step on the road to combating terrorism inside and outside the Kingdom [of Saudi Arabia].