Date of source: Saturday, March 1, 2008
The joint committee of the Permanent Committee of Al-Azhar for Dialogue with Monotheistic Religions closed its annual meetings with the delegation of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue in the Vatican. The meeting was faced with wide scale protests in Egypt. The Egyptian press...
Date of source: Saturday, March 1, 2008
Rafīq Habīb rejects visions that regard Copts as a minority group in Egypt, saying it is just a numerical minority that coincides with the cultural and civilizational features of society as a whole.
Date of source: Sunday, March 2, 2008
Ishāq Ibrāhīm interviews Dr. Muhammad Munīr Mujāhid, the founder of Egyptians against Religious Discrimination [No links found], about the group’s aim and activities.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Sāmih Fawzī discusses the dire need for a unified legislation to build houses of worship in Egypt. He criticizes what he calls the official’s “inattention” to such an important law.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 27, 2008
A public swimming pool and municipality in the Eastern Netherlands are at odds over whether or not visitors to public pools should be permitted to swim in unusual costumes.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 27, 2008
The article presents a response of the author to a statement from the al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah in which it attacked the daily al-Dustūr.
Date of source: Saturday, March 1, 2008 to Friday, March 7, 2008
The article reviews a report by Forbes magazine – the Arabic edition – on the wealth of new Islamic preachers.
Date of source: Sunday, March 2, 2008
The anarchy in issuing fatwás threatens religion as well as society. The unqualified people who are issuing fatwás nowadays are abusing religion by making it their business.
Date of source: Saturday, March 1, 2008
Muhammad ‘Abd al-Hamīd, interviewed Amal Sulaymān ‘Afīfī, the first female ma’dhūn in Egypt and the entire Islamic world, about her new post.
Date of source: Monday, February 25, 2008
Muhammad Hassān, one of the most popular Muslim preachers not only in Egypt but all over the Islamic world, spoke to al-Maydān about a number of important issues.