Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
The article explores the opinions of graduates from the College of Fine Arts, who later became prominent figures in Egypt, on the ordeal the faculty is going through and the growing number of people believing that art is harām.
Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
The article focuses on the resignation offered by a professor in the fine arts college over a mounting ultra-religious trend that believes that art is harām [unacceptable from a Muslim point of view].
Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2006
The government has supplied 4000
recievers to the
mosques of Greater Cairo as part of a plan to unify the call to prayer, but some suspect a US plan
to unify
the Friday sermons and eventually cancel the dawn prayer.
Date of source: Friday, April 28, 2006
Zaynab
‘Abd al-Ilāh, author of the article, sheds light upon how the
two newly-innovated types of
marriages, friend and Misyār marriage, have met with controversial
views from Islamic clerics.
Date of source: Sunday, April 30, 2006
The author argues that the killings
of Christians that took place recently in Egypt and
Turkey signal religious intolerance.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006
A married Christian man is accused of
converting to Islam, with his cousin, in order to
take her as a second wife.
Date of source: Monday, May 1, 2006
A new
law forces the
Ministry of Interior to acknowledge the conversion of Coptic Orthodox Christians to Islam.
Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006
Christians in Egypt have rejected a document
that is alleged by
some to allow missionary work in Egypt, arguing that it will increase tension between Muslims
and Copts.
AWR has already published Shaykh al-Zifzāf’s denial fo these claims, with a link
to the
full text of the document.
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: Saturday, April 22, 2006 to Friday, April 28, 2006
There are many factors that have contributed to
the escalation of violence
among youths, including the education system, which depends on memorizing school
subjects rather than
understanding or discussing them, as well as unemployment, the housing crisis and
overpopulation problems.