Date of source: Monday, October 31, 2005
Egyptian writer, Nasr Hāmid Abu Zayd has been awarded this year’s Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought.
Date of source: Monday, October 24, 2005
Muslim Brotherhood candidates for parliamentary elections have been accused of paying for votes for the coming elections, scheduled for November 7.
Date of source: Monday, October 24, 2005
Head of the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies, Dr. Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, held a conference on Saturday under the title "Establishing a democratic network to monitor the elections” at the Metropole Hotel, Alexandria.
Date of source: Friday, October 21, 2005
The journalists’ syndicate is to hold its monthly Ihsān ‘Abd al-Quddous salon next Sunday to discuss the participation of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Date of source: Friday, October 21, 2005
Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary candidate and Professor of Arab Literature at the Azhar University, Dr. Makārim al-Dīrī, says that men are superior to women, but also argues for increased female participation in political issues.
Date of source: Friday, October 21, 2005
It is expected that Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm will announce tomorrow in Alexandria, during a three-day conference, his intention to set up an Egyptian network for the advancement of democracy. Reports describe the network as part of a plan known as the Atlantic Network for Democracy.
Date of source: Monday, October 17, 2005
Debates continue over article two of the Egyptian constitution, which makes Islam the religion of state and Islamic jurisprudence the principle source of legislation.
Date of source: Friday, October 21, 2005
As regards democracy-citizenship, the writer argues that it is of the utmost importance to work on lessening the gaps between the classes as much as possible. He hopes that the forthcoming parliamentary election will offer a favorable opportunity to have all social strata represented in the People’...
Date of source: Friday, October 14, 2005
The insistence on linking the market economy to democracy is, at its core, a return to a period of history when democracy and citizenship were marked by economic power.
Date of source: Friday, October 21, 2005
Shaykh Fawzī al-Zafzāf, President of the Permanent Committee for Dialogue among the Monotheistic Religions at the Azhar, explains how the idea of dialogue dates to the early days of Islam.