Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006
The speech of Mr. Ahmad Māhir, former foreign minister of Egypt, on ’Freedom of expression and respect for the other. How to respond if one is offended.’
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006
The author tackles the recent crisis of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad which
has widened
the gap between Muslim and non-Muslim countries.
Date of source: Sunday, April 9, 2006
The author examines the US’s changing image of the Arab world.
Date of source: Sunday, November 4, 2001
An Egyptian living in America sent the author a message
saying that Americans are among the kindest peoples in the world and that he felt very safe in America. He added
that there was bitter hostility in Egypt towards the West and America, although America liberated Kuwait and fought
against...
Date of source: Monday, November 5, 2001
The West shares responsibility for reviving the religious trend in the Arabic region in the 1990s and for
the religious groups’ resorting to violence as a means of expressing themselves. What is meant is not the indirect
responsibility of the American policy, which is prejudiced towards Israel...
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2001
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) issued a report titled "Egypt’s Al-Azhar Clerics: We declare war on America," The title implies that many if not most Azhar scholars declared war on America. Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi stressed that this was certainly not true. He said that the report...
Date of source: Sunday, October 28, 2001
The author believes Western and American media deform the image of Islam and Muslims but neither such an accusation nor claiming that Western media are controlled by Zionist groups solves the problem. It is better to ask about what Muslims have done and what they could do to face such a problem.
Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2001
The world became an incomparable theater of the absurd; America, the greatest country in the world, attacked the poorest country in the world, claiming that it was the one behind the attacks of September 11. By choosing Afghanistan, America found a good reason for its presence in the region of the...
Date of source: Sunday, October 21, 2001
Arabic and Western thinking was impacted by the theories of Huntington, Fokoyama and Bernard Lewis who made the clash between cultures and the end of history something inevitable. Current events were explained in the view of theses theories. However, we need to consider deeply what is going on...
Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2001 to Friday, October 26, 2001
Western countries, led by the USA, are committing a great historical sin, if they keep making decisions for the future at a disturbed time. They have the right to protect their interests, but to insist on drawing a picture of the future now is a real danger for the whole world. We are all in the...