Date of source: Monday, May 25, 1998
A defense of the teacher who presented the book to the students to criticize it and a stress on the fact that what happened was within the boundaries of legitimate academic research.
Date of source: Monday, May 18, 1998
Pope Shenouda the third crowns Bishop Philip the first Patriarch of Eritrea.
Date of source: Friday, May 15, 1998
Mohamed Abdel-Mone’m sees the raising issue of Coptic persecution as part of a larger international conspiracy against the Middle East.
Date of source: Thursday, May 14, 1998
Members of the underground Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya were arrested last week on charges of trying to revive the activities of the group.
Date of source: Saturday, May 16, 1998
Salah Montasir thanks the minister of education for banning the Rodinson’s book and publishes a letter from the minister to himself.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 13, 1998
The author calls for the banning of a book on the prophet Mohammed by Maxim Rodinson that is taught in AUC.
Date of source: Thursday, May 7, 1998
Loula Zaqlama, the Egyptian Christian advertisement and Marketing specialist has been chosen by Fortune Magazine, as one of the 50 leading female entrepreneurs. In the page-size article on the back page of the Al-Ahram Weekly is a photo of Loula Zaqlama on which she wears a clearly visible cross....
Date of source: Friday, May 8, 1998
The recent allegations by some emigrated Copts that the Christians of Egypt are subjected to acts of violence aimed at their lives and belongings, ranking them as religiously persecuted, and thus subject to the law 2431 on Freedom from Religious Persecution, does not necessarily imply accusing...
Date of source: Friday, May 8, 1998
[mentioned in Al-Ahram of the same day and most other newspapers] Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, the minister of religious endowments, agreed to return 387 acres to the Coptic endowments authority. The dispute over who manages the Coptic Endowments, the ministry or the Coptic Orthodox Church, has ended...
Date of source: Monday, May 11, 1998
Dr. Yehia Ismail attacks Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi for defending Dr. Hassan Hanafi. In a comment on this article Dr. van Nispen argues that this attack of Dr. Ismail is unfair because he takes quotes of Hanafi out of context.