Date of source: Wednesday, March 5, 2003
Hossam Gawdat is a new AWR board member. He has been translating some articles for AWR and provided a comment on a MEMRI report on radical anti-Jewish and anti-Christian preaching of a sheikh in Gaza. He is qualified to comment on radical preachers since he was once closely associated to the Gama’...
Date of source: Saturday, March 8, 2003
Differences in reporting about the Palestinian conflict.
Remark on one of the many books that reinforces prejudices against Islam or the West.
Comment on Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi’s statement that Muslims should not change Islam for the sake of the West.
Date of source: Saturday, March 13, 2004
The author [a Muslim intellectual] writes about a debate that took part between him and a member of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya on change of educational curricula in Muslim countries. The debate was aired by Al-Jazeera satellite channel on February 17, 2004. Sheikhs in Egyptian mosques continued the...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
Muhammad Al-Zawahry, Ayman Al-Zawahry’s middle brother who is now held in an Egyptian prison, is going through revisions that are similar to those carried out by the Gama’a al-Islamiya at the start of 2002 . Sources close to Muhammad reported that Muhammad has been changing his understanding of the...
Date of source: Sunday, March 14, 2004
The article is an interview with the wife of Aboud Al-Zomor, Wehda, about Sheikh Aboud and Tareq Al-Zomor’s suspended release and their attitudes towards the cease-violence initiative.
Date of source: Sunday, March 21, 2004
The Supreme State Security Court in Cairo is due to hear the case of the Islamic Liberation Party [Hizb al-Tahrir] on the 25th of this month. Three British citizens are among the suspects in this case. The Liberation Party resumed its activities after the end of fundamentalist activities due to two...
Date of source: Friday, March 26, 2004
An official legal memo released by the Egyptian Ministry of Interior revealed that it is impossible to release Abud Al-Zomor, leader of the Egyptian Jihad group, and his nephew Tareq Al-Zomor, who have been jailed since 1982 in the case of Egyptian President Anwar Al-Sadat’s assassination.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 24, 2004
An Egyptian court issued a sudden ruling yesterday to drop the name of Usama Roshdy, an eminent Egyptian fundamentalist living abroad, from the authorities’ wanted list. The court also obliged the Egyptian government to compensate him for the suffering he has faced because of being described as a “...
Date of source: Monday, May 3, 2004
The Muslim Brotherhood is restricting the activities of many of its best young members. A decision was issued to expel Mokhtar Nuh and freeze the membership of Sayyed Abdel Sattar Fatah, the assistant secretary-general of the Syndicate of Scientists. It is not a coincidence these people belong to a...
Date of source: Monday, May 3, 2004
A lot of youth in Upper Egypt joined the Islamic group of Al-Tabligh wa Al-Da’wa. These youths claim that they are preaching the ways of God, but they have no credentials that qualify them to preach. The members of the group in fact do not care about politics and the regime. They belittle the...