Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
The article deals with a meeting held at the
French
Cultural Center in Cairo on the occasion of International Translation Day to discuss means of having
translation
act as a bridge bringing different cultures together.
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: Saturday, May 27, 2006
Al-Muslimoun Fī al-Gharb: Bayn
Tanāqudāt al
-Wāqi‘ wa Tahadīyāt al-Mustaqbal [Muslims in the West:
Contradictions of
reality and challenges of the future] is a book by Moroccan writer al-Tajani Boul cAwali,
who argues that the lives
of Muslims in the West are full of contradictions.
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
Daniel Henninger argues that given the popularity of ‘The Da Vinci Code’, conspiracy theories clearly have no limits.
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
Patrick Sookhdeo is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity, a Christian research organization that specialises in the study of Christian minorities in Islamic states. Born in British Guyana, he converted from Islam to Christianity in his early 20s and now warns,...
Date of source: Monday, May 29, 2006
The spokesman and general coordinator of the Egyptian Movement for Change, Kifāya, George Ishāq, has been interrogated by leaders of the movement about his participation in a dubious U.S. conference, held last month in Istanbul, Turkey and attended by a large number of Israeli academics.
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
The authors write about all Egyptian parties’ rejection to deal with the American International Republican Institute (IRI) except one party, the Social Constitutional Party, whose leader, Mamdouh Qināwī, welcomed cooperation with the American institution.
Date of source: Saturday, May 27, 2006 to Friday, June 2, 2006
The article deals with the
American
International Republican Institute (IRI)’s interference in Egyptian politics by urging political
parties to shift
their attention from the Iraqi and Palestinian fronts to the internal front and the
problems facing the country.
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
The British Embassy in Cairo has hosted a
reception to discuss the rare manuscripts of al-Siryān Monastery and ways to preserve them as part of
the
great Coptic heritage and Egyptian civilization.
Date of source: Thursday, May 25, 2006
Discussion
of the recommendations of the Montreal Conference for Coptic
Associations and Activists, held on April 7-9,
2006, in Montreal, Canada.