Date of source: Monday, August 15, 2005
Censors at the Egyptian Ministry of Information have blocked the latest edition of the English-language Cairo Magazine. State Security officers confiscated all copies of the edition before distribution.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 9, 2005
The government has established parties it alleges are expressive of the dissolved Labor Party. Yet no room has been left for different opinions, and al-Shā‘b, Labor’s newspaper, which was closed down years ago, has not been re-issued with its original journalists.
Date of source: Monday, July 4, 2005
Some 70 Members of Parliament reject a visit to be paid by the US Congress Freedom from Religious Persecution Committee, which they view as an attempt to interfere in domestic political affairs and have an impact on the public opinion trends within the period in which Egypt is preparing for the...
Date of source: Thursday, June 30, 2005
The letter sent by Eric Edelman, former US Ambassador in Turkey, to the Turkish minister of religious affairs, Muhammad Eden, about Turkish anti conversion tactics, opened a hot debate about the protestant encroachment into the society and the dilemma of identity versus benefits of the European...
Date of source: Friday, July 1, 2005
Arab-West Report decided to work on a more systematic basis with Coptic human rights activist Rā’id al-Sharqāwi. Rā’id has in the past been involved in several investigative reports for AWR about sensitive issues after Western media had reported about incidents in Egypt. AWR believes its media...
Date of source: Saturday, June 25, 2005
Many Editors-in-chief agree that if it were not for the censorship on their publications, they would have made better press. Is it really the censorship that led to the deterioration of newspapers and magazines?
Date of source: Sunday, June 26, 2005
This paper discusses the rights and freedoms granted by the current Egyptian constitution as regards to the scope of freedom, the limitations imposed by legal and practical restrictions, and the extent to which this freedom conforms to the international conventions officially upheld by Egypt
Date of source: Sunday, June 26, 2005
There is no doubt June 8, 1992 was a sad day, not only for the secularist intellectuals, but also for any thinker who knows the value of free intellect and how criminal it was to confront the powers of thought with the powers of bullets.
Date of source: Monday, August 15, 2005
Difficulty to obtain written and well argumented responses in Egypt to biased texts published in the West.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Dr. Adams, Independent Baptist pastor in Kansas City, US, was asked to respond to angry articles in Arabic media about Christian mission, including the method of preaching by Father Zakariya Butrus. Since Dr. Adams does not live in Egypt and has not seen anything of Father Zakariya Butrus’...