Date of source: Sunday, April 30, 2006
Reports of the terrorist bombing in Dahab, Sinai, and news that the security forces have allegedly broken up a group of 22 militants from the Victorious Group, who were planning bomb attacks on “degenerate youth in tourist areas,” a gas pipeline near Cairo, and Muslim and Christian religious...
Date of source: Sunday, April 30, 2006
Discussion of a recent seminar on “Terrorism: the phenomenon and confrontation,” organised by the Forum for cultural dialogue, an affiliate of the Coptic Evangelical Association (CEA) [Ëditor AWR, the name CEA is wrong, this should be CEOSS, Coptic Evangelical Organization of Social Services] in...
Date of source: Sunday, April 30, 2006
The author discusses the recent Sinai terrorist bombings, recommending that Sinai’s Bedouins, who seem likely to be involved in the attacks, live in circumstances that are a fertile ground for the breeding of terrorism.
Date of source: Thursday, April 27, 2006
This press review investigates the three
consecutive bombings in the Sinai resort of Dahab from an analytical perspective amidst growing suspicions
of the
loyalty of the Bedouins of Sinai to their Egyptian homeland. It also includes suggestions about the
involvement of
al-Qā‘ida network.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Egyptian police have managed to identify the bombers who
carried out the April 24 blasts of the tourist
resort of Dahab, as three North Sinai Bedouin, Mu’min Fārouq
Muhammad ‘Alī, Karīm
Ashraf ‘Abdallāh and Mājid
‘Alī Mahmoud. Two days after the triple blasts,
two suicide bombers attacked...
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The author addresses some contradictions in Egyptian society, in particular the situation whereby people prohibit sculptures, but at the same time consider shrines holy places.
Date of source: Monday, May 1, 2006
Sawt al-Umma
interviews leader of the Qur’ānīyīn group,
Dr. Ahamd Subhī Mansour, over his
controversial views on the Sunna.
Date of source: Monday, May 1, 2006
Some people consider themselves as da‘iyas, although they are neither scholars of Qur’ān and Hadīth nor graduates of the Azhar. Such people are also being hosted on religion programs, on which they spread strange fatwas.
Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
The article deals with an incident in which a woman wearing a niqāb smashed a number of great works by a fine sculptor after a recent fatwa from the muftī saying that statues are not acceptable from a Muslim point of view.
Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
The article deals in a nutshell with the history of the Egyptian School of Arts and the successful experiment that astonished foreign experts who were the early directors of this old institution.