Date of source: Saturday, February 25, 2006
The author notes the opinions of some of the pope’s favored candidates for al-Majlis al-Mīllī. Their comments pertain to the status, purpose and future of the secular-based Coptic council.
Date of source: Sunday, February 26, 2006
This news reports about the complaint Father Rafīq Jārsh, head of the press office of Catholic Church, made to al-Ahrām’s editor-in-chief over Dr. Zaghloul al-Najār’s misinterpretation of a biblical term.
Date of source: Sunday, February 26, 2006
Shaymā’ Silīm reports on the preparation for the first Egyptian movie on the life of Jesus Christ from an Arab, Christian and Orthodox perspective.
Date of source: Monday, February 27, 2006
During last Thursday’s meeting of the Islamic Research Academy [http://www.isra.org.uk/], the grand imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, revealed an initiative to form an interfaith dialogue committee affiliated to the academy.
Date of source: Saturday, February 25, 2006
The author argues that an official memo, dated January 17, 2006, sent by member of the Arab/Israel and North Africa Group, Julie McGregor to the British Middle East Minister, Kim Howells, on a proposed British engagement with the Muslim Brotherhood, has been "purposely leaked" to the press.
Date of source: Saturday, February 25, 2006
Recent research findings on the increasing rate of melanoma among girls have raised controversy among Egyptian dermatologists and Muslim scholars, after claims by some Muslim preachers linked skin cancer to revealing clothes worn by young girls.
Date of source: Monday, February 27, 2006
Dr. al-Lāwindī discusses the issue of Islamophobia in Europe and the reasons behind the Europeans panic about the spread of Islam. He moves on to the fact that two concepts have been created as a response to Islamophobia, "Europeanized Islam” and "Islam of Europe.”
Date of source: Friday, February 24, 2006
A recent research paper on "The Image of the Prophet Muhammad in German Protestant Missionary Literature" by academic Ibrāhīm ‘Abd al-Hakīm Ahmad Lāshīn has shown a direct link between Islam and the prophet in most European writings.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 28, 2006
This press review tackles the Sunni-Shiite clashes in Iraq, the Egyptian initiative forwarded by top Sunni Muslim scholars in Egypt to bring an end to the violence, and the exchanged assaults on the shrines of both sides.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 28, 2006
In response to the offensive cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, first published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September 2005, moderate Egyptian preacher, ‘Amr Khālid has revealed an initiative to engage in dialogue with Danish youth and intellectuals in a bid to find common...