Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
Ashley Makar discusses the paranoia surrounding the issue of conversion, the Alexandria incidents and the words of hatred spouted by both some Muslims and Christians, calling for dialogue and openness.
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
Councilor Samī Barīk, the district attorney for East Alexandria has decided to
release,
prematurely, the remainder of those accused of involvement in the Alexandria incident.
Date of source: Saturday, May 27, 2006 to Friday, June 2, 2006
The article tackles the failure of
religious institutions in Egypt to come up with a
moderate discourse, as the author blames the current state of
fanatisism in the country on both Muslim and
Christian preachers.
Date of source: Friday, May 26, 2006
Imān
Raslān poses the critical question of whether discrimination and sectarianism has extended to
Egyptian
schools.
Date of source: Friday, May 26, 2006
The
author continues his series of articles responding
to Archpriest Zakarīyā Butrus’ opinions about
Islam in a program called Questions about Faith
relayed on a Christian satellite channel called al-
Hayāt.
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
Agharīd Mustafa was interested in the attempts of Drs.
Cornelis
Hulsman, a Dutch scholar and the director of the Center for Arab-West Understanding, to narrow the gap
between the West and the Arab world. She interviewed him in Cairo for the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Ra’y al-
‘Ām.
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
Mamdouh al-Musallami declares the rise of a new generation of terrorist
networks,
but some experts disagree.
Date of source: Thursday, May 25, 2006
The
review highlights the Muslim Brotherhood’s position during the judges crisis that has recently gripped the
nation, amidst accusations that the outlawed group is trying to take advantage of the crisis to escalate its
confrontation with the regime.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 30, 2006
The author writes about a conference
he attended in
Indonesia that has considered ways for Arab Muslim countries to benefit from the experiments of non
-Arab
Muslim countries and which discussed whether Islamic discourse could be reformed without taking the Arab
environment into account.
Date of source: Monday, May 29, 2006
The review focuses on the spread of the hijāb in Egyptian society, amidst questions of whether a hijāb- wearing woman is really more devout than a non-hijāb wearing woman.