Date of source: Saturday, March 10, 2001 to Friday, March 16, 2001
A Coptic Egyptian citizen sent the American President, George Bush, a letter. He asked Bush to make his era one of justice and peace. He wrote that Copts are living in peace in the era of President Mubarak and refused the guardianship of the Congress’ committee of freedoms. He asked Bush to help...
Date of source: Thursday, March 8, 2001
The RNSAW usually places no articles which were not published in an Arab medium in the Arab World or which have no relation to the Arab World. In this case this text of CAIR-NET is provided because of the article below in Asharq Al-Awsat, one day after the CAIR-NET (and probably others) spread the...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 23, 2001
The vice-president of the committee for dialogue between religions in the Azhar, Dr. Ali Al-Samman, explained why the Vatican did not apologize for the crusades. It is because European history syllabuses give western people the idea that Salah Al-Deen was the leader of an Islamic aggression during...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 16, 2001
The Azhar Dialogue Committee’s activities are exclusively visiting Rome. The committee is not trying to change the unfair concept of Islam and Muslims that is firmly established in the minds of Westerners. The Dialogue Committee became the subject of many questions and doubts. The dialogue between...
Date of source: Saturday, November 11, 2000
Nine organizations issued a joint statement expressing their fear that the trial of human rights defender Saad Eddin Ibrahim and 27 others before a Supreme State Security Court might not meet international fair trial standards. The trial is scheduled to open on 18 November 2000. The statement was...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 1, 2000
Dr. Watson wrote for the RNSAW is widely used and admired by those concerned with the study of Islam and Christianity. No other similar service is available in the West. Watson wrote the international context of the RNSAW is most significant because of Professor Samuel P. Huntington’s thesis on the...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 17, 2000
The head of Cairo Appeals Court decided to begin hearings in the trial of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim on the 18th of November. He is charged with receiving about 261,000 Euros from the European Union (EU) without permission from official departments. In addition, he is accused of forging official...
Date of source: Thursday, October 26, 2000
Hossam Gowdat visited Sout al-Azhar to find out what the sources were for the article on the Dutch orientalist but editor-in-chief Dr. Karam Shalaby could not help him since the author Fawzy Tag el -Din had left the paper. Prof. Dr. J. Waardenburg wrote Dr. N. Coulson was a British specialist in...
Date of source: Saturday, October 14, 2000
Fawzy Tag El-Din wrote in the Sout Al-Azhar of October 6 about Coulson’s work on Malik Ibn Anas and says he is a Dutch orientalist who is skeptical about the Sunna. The RNSAW consulted two scholars at Leiden University, which has a centuries old tradition of the study of Islam and Arabic. Dr. J.J.G...
Date of source: Friday, September 15, 2000
The article relates the story of a first year preparatory school student, whose French school prevented her from entering the classroom because she was wearing a hijab. While the student’s father confirmed that what the school did clashes with the principle of personal freedom, the school insists...