Date of source: Saturday, June 3, 2006
The French Center for Culture and Cooperation in Cairo organized an annual translation day to evaluate achievements and to set a plan for future priorities.
Date of source: Thursday, May 25, 2006
Discussions within the
Christian church over ‘The Da
Vinci Code’ film, and whether or not the film should be censored.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 24, 2006
The article is on the arrest of 22 terrorists and the killing of seven during clashes between policemen and members of a group, al-Tawhīd wa al- Jihād, suspected of masterminding the Dahab and al-Joura bombings that claimed the lives of a few tourists and many Egyptians in Sinai.
Date of source: Sunday, May 21, 2006
The author criticizes a book review of Nabīl Louqa Bibāwī’s book, The Problems of Copts in Egypt and their Solutions, written by Al-Ahrām columnist Mahmoud Muntasir and warns against the idea of appeasing those who have returned from the Gulf with fundamentalist ideologies.
Date of source: Thursday, May 18, 2006
The grand muftī
of Egypt denies claims that he permitted the killing of
extremist Muslims.
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2006
The author criticizes Professor Zaghloul al-Najār’s continued attacks on Copts,
underlining that his statements underestimate Christianity and threaten to fracture national unity in
Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006 to Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Egyptian intellectuals express their
views on the
reason behind the Alexandria incident in particular and sectarian tension in Egypt in general.
Date of source: Sunday, April 30, 2006
The author reviews the development of the Coptic issue,
expressing
the opinion that the regimes of Nāsir, Sādāt, and Mubārak are responsible
for the rise of
Islamic fundamentalism, which has harmed Copts.
Date of source: Sunday, April 30, 2006
Ashley Makar writes about the concept of martyrdom in Egypt, the Alexandria incidents, where a Muslim man ran amuck with a knife, stabbing worshippers and killing one man and the image Egyptians have of ‘the other.’
Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
Talāl al-Ansārī, the second defendant in the 1974 al-Fanīya al-
‘Askarīya organization, who had been sentenced to death along with two others but whose
sentence was commuted to imprisonment, resumes his diary which Rose al-Yousuf magazine publishes in
episodes.