Date of source: Thursday, January 11, 2007
In media it is now usual to criticize the racial discrimination culture and to suggest solutions by sympathizing with women by calling them “half of the society” and with Copts who are called “the other part of the nation tissue” without realizing that these names emphasize separation and division.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Secretary of the Holy Synod Bishop Bīshūy asserted that Pope Shenouda refused an Israeli proposal to return al-Sulṭān Monastery to the Egyptian church in return for lifting the ban imposed by his holiness on visiting Jerusalem.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Ṭāriq Ramaḍān is chosen by Time magazine as one of the most important 100 persons in the new century all over the world.
Date of source: Monday, January 15, 2007
In a series of articles, entitled, ‘The Perils of a Religious State,’ Jābir ‘Aṣfūr, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Culture, examines the first calls for the establishment of a religious state and warns of its dangers.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 10, 2007
The influence of sectarianism on Egyptian political life.
Date of source: Friday, January 12, 2007
This article explains that Egyptian intellectuals can not carry out their mission to free people’s minds from control due to fear of the state and of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Date of source: Friday, January 12, 2007
The article is based on a dialogue with the key leader of the Islamic Group Dr. Nājiḥ Ibrāhīm, where he discusses issues like the group’s recent initiative to cease its violent approaches toward the regime.
Date of source: Monday, January 15, 2007
The minister of endowments asserted that the project that will unify the calls to prayers would eliminate randomness and noisy voices.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 10, 2007
The writer objects to and criticizes the Fatwá issued by the previous Egyptian Muftī Dr. Naṣr Farīd Wāṣil which proclaimed Ṣaddām Ḥussayn a martyr because of his persecution by the Americans.
Date of source: Monday, January 15, 2007
Dr. Maḥmūd Ḥamdī Zaqzūq, the Egyptian minister of endowments, has issued a decision that bans the ministry’s religious counselors from wearing the Niqāb. Stating that the Niqāb is "a matter of custom and not faith," the minister argued that the appointment of Niqāb-wearing women as...