Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2005
Mahdī Muhammad cĀkif, Supreme General of the Muslim Brotherhood, received a warning from a young lawyer who used to be a member of the Brotherhood and whose membership was frozen when he raised some questions concerning democracy within the group.
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2005
Two weeks of peace in the Bar Association ended and it turned again to disturbance when the juridical committee observing elections of the association fixed those elections for March 12 to select the head and the Board of the association.
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2005
More than 170,000 lawyers will decide on March 12 on their new council by electing a chairman and 24 members. Although Sāmih ‘Āshour and Rajā’ī ‘Atiyyah are the only two candidates for the chair, a fierce struggle for members’ seats continues due to the so-called ’national lists.’
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2005
President Husnī Mubārak phoned Pope Shenouda III to congratulate him on the Coptic Christmas and expressed heartfelt appreciation for the prelate and the Copts of Egypt. The President reiterated that Egypt is the country of all Egyptians, Muslims and Copts, and that Christians in Egypt are no...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2005
The crisis of Wafā’ Costantine has opened the door to discuss many issues concerning Copts, their status in society and their relationship with both the state and the Church. The crisis of Costantine has also shed light on the problem of Coptic divorce, which has become chronic for the last thirty...
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2005
In its third issue, al-Hāditha, a new independent Egyptian newspaper specialized in news reports on accidents, splashed on its front-page headlines about anti-Islam attacks by an Egyptian priest called Qummus Zakarīyā Butrus who said that hajj [Muslim pilgrimage] is an annual occasion of “sex orgy...
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2005
Egyptian newspapers are plagued with the epidemic of incompetent writers whose articles are void of ideology and literary style. There are few respectable writers, but unfortunately more examples of such stagnation exist.
Date of source: Saturday, January 15, 2005
The Anglican Church has assumed a prominent role with its ownership of the biggest publishing houses in the Middle East such as the Evangelical Culture House [Kees, this is the exact translation] and Logos Publishing House in Egypt, and Al Manār Publishing House in Beirut.
Date of source: Friday, January 14, 2005
Al-Musawwar magazine is publishing part of Fathī Ghānim’s novel Bint Min Shubrā [A girl from Shubrā], whose adaptation as a TV series drew a recent controversy.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Egypt is known to be a model of coexistence of religions and the cradle of civilizations from the pharaonic until the Islamic one. Egypt has been known for its historically solid national unity that was unshakable despite attempts by foreign forces to destroy it.