Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
The Islamist group behind the 1981 assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat is planning a political wing to peacefully oppose normalization with Israel, an Islamist lawyer said in remarks published on August 20.
Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 1999 to Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Palestinian police have detained 90 Hamas activists in the last few days in response to attempts by the Islamic militant group to carry out attacks on Israelis, a Hamas leader and Palestinian officials said on Thursday.
Date of source: Friday, August 27, 1999
After he was exonerated from accusations of blasphemy and apostasy, Muslim thinker-scholar professor Abdel Sabour Shahin, added fuel to the growing dispute over his latest book when he emphasized that he was abiding with every letter and every word published in his book.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 31, 1999
The Court of South Cairo is judging the a case of Dr. Abu Zeid and his wife Ebtihal Ahmadi Younis against the Minister of Justice, Farouq Seif Al-Nasr in order to continue the matrimonial relationship.
Date of source: Friday, August 27, 1999
Islamist sheikh Gamal Qutb condemned Naguib Mahfouz and Nasr Abu Zeid and declared their thoughts contradictory to Islam. He criticized the use of their books in universities. Sheikh Qutb anticipated that Islam will predominate in America and Europe soon.
Date of source: Sunday, August 29, 1999
Mohammed Shebl criticizes two hadiths which have been used by extremists to justify their activities. He argues that those who deny that these hadiths lead to terrorism in fact encourage terrorism. The RNSAW asked Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi, dean of the College of the Foundation of Religion (Usul el-...
Date of source: Friday, August 20, 1999 to Friday, August 27, 1999
Historical facts and evidences prove that Egyptian monasteries and Coptic churches in the Christian era were a centre for study, copying and inscribing manuscripts and documents of the Coptic era. There was rarely a church that didn’t have a library. Monks were clever at inscribing and binding...
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 1999 to Friday, July 16, 1999
Atef Helmi, an Egyptian Catholic, focuses his criticism on what he considers superstition of Egyptian Charismatics who are linked to American Charismatic movements.
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 1999 to Friday, July 16, 1999
The RNSAW gave a summary of both Rose el-Yousef articles in RNSAW, week 28, edition July 9-15, 1999. Since several readers asked for the full text that text is given in this issue together with comments from Evangelical Egyptian church leaders.
Wa’el Lotfi writes about the opposition of Egypt’s...
Date of source: Thursday, August 19, 1999
Due to the orders of Counselor Maher Abdel Wahed, the attorney general, the counselor Hany Abdel Gaber, the general attorney of Bani Suef prosecutions, decided to present the truck driver, who caused the death of 29 young men and women from Mari Girgis Church in Masr Al-Gedida on the Assiut-Cairo...