Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999 to Wednesday, July 28, 1999
What have women done towards preventing ethnic cleansing in Kosovo? How are women contributing to the Middle East peace process? What part can they play in building understanding between people of different faiths? What can they do now to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor? These issues...
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999
International terrorism began long time ago. It began since the Second World War and the Cold war (1947-1991). Due to these two wars, Israel appeared and it encouraged terrorism and used it especially against the people who were opposing its policy. But there are some solutions for this problem...
Date of source: Monday, July 26, 1999
During an interview with Al-Usboa, Dr. Abdallah Al-Ebeid tried to explain the position of Islam towards globalization, America and the various satellite TV channels. He also tried to explain the attitude of the Islamic world towards Israel and the ethical problems like rape and the judgment of...
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999
Minister of Justice Hamzeh Haddad said a special legal committee at the ministry has decided to cancel article 340 of the Jordanian Penal Code which allows a reduction in penalty for killers who commit crimes of honour.
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...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 13, 1999
A woman rushed to the police station to report that her daughter had mysteriously disappeared. "Please save my daughter from a red jinn named Morsi," she told the astonished police officer.
Date of source: Friday, July 9, 1999
For four years, 22-year-old Hani was haunted by a devilish desire to kill his sister for bringing disgrace on his Upper Egyptian family. He finally mustered his guts, and kept banging her head until she was dead. The crime was committed in the presence of the father, who remained silent in tacit...
Date of source: Friday, July 9, 1999
The armed violence that was used against the Egyptian Copts aims at a lot of things. For instance planting doubt in the ability of the government to protect its own citizens and it is used against the whole country (Muslims and Christians) not just against a certain group only.
Date of source: Sunday, July 11, 1999
The villagers of this small (mainly Christian) village have been living all their lives in the properties of the country. They have been paying taxes in return for using them. The problem is that these people are asking for clean water, but the governmental officials refuse to provide them with it...
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.