Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006
A few days ago, news broke that the Egyptian Ministry of Interior had arrested a 22-member terrorist cell, calling itself al-Tā’ifa al-Mansoura [The Victorious Sect], on charges of planning terrorist attacks against a number of tourist sites, gas pipelines on the Greater Cairo ring road, and...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 26, 2006
The author reports
claims that Muslim Brotherhood member Dr. Rashad
Bayoumi’s attack on Jamāl Mubārak, the president’s
son and head of the NDP Policy
Secretariat, in the paper ignited the crisis of Āfāq
‘Arabīya and that
Safwat al-Shariīf, head of the Supreme Press Council has covered
the...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Changing the statute will not help in
political
reform because it contains many contradictions, the author argues, and modifications to the statute aim
only
at the interest of the president not the political parties.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
The article
deals
with the Alexandria incidents and focuses on the issue of citizenship and the means to promote it, in
order to
avoid the recurrence of sectarian troubles.
Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2006
The press review
deals
with the incidents of Alexandria, from an analytical point of view, in an attempt to probe the reasons for
the assault on three churches by an allegedly schizophrenic young man called Mahmoud Salāh, who killed
one
person and injured scores others while shouting Fidāk Yā...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
In an interview with al-Dustour,
Professor
of French Literature at the Faculty of Languages, the Azhar University, Dr. Kamāl
Jād
Allāh recounts his experience as an imām of a mosque in Paris.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
After reformers
withdraw from
the Coptic Orthodox Majlis al-Millī’s elections, there is only one candidate, Pope
Shenouda III the Patriarch of the See of St. Mark.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
While Western countries do not fear the veil on television, Egyptian television still deals with the hijāb as it was shameful, according to the authors who believe that presenters should be chosen according to their capabilities not appearances.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Some
intellectuals have
rejected the idea of a film about the life of Christ which they consider an insult to a holy
figure.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
To revive the
Azhar, many professors and
scholars advocate choosing the shaykh of the Azhar by election
instead of appointment.