Date of source: Monday, January 22, 2001
Dr. Saadeddin Ibrahim resumed yesterday his attack against the accusations leveled against him and 27 other defendants. The court listened to the statements of defense witnesses Major General Ahmed Abdel Halim and Ambassador Mohamed Shaker, who both ruled out Ibn Khaldun’s involvement in any...
Date of source: Sunday, January 21, 2001
Dr. Ahmed Kamal Abul Magd, Dr. Said El-Naggar, Dr. Abdel Moneim Said, Dr. Mohamed El-Gohary - members of the Center’s Board of Trustees - and Dr. Ibrahim Shehata, former deputy chairman of the World Bank, five public figures called by Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, chairman of Ibn Khaldoun Center, were...
Date of source: Saturday, January 20, 2001 to Friday, January 26, 2001
The attempts to put an end to the conflict between the head of the General Assembly of the Free Methodist Church and the ten deposed pastors have been ineffective. The head of the Assembly stated that the reason for this conflict was that the pastor of the church of Al-Goun asked foreign bodies to...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 17, 2001
Egyptian representatives of the Azhar organized a gala dinner in honor of Coptic churches in Britain. Egypt’s ambassador to Britain said that the dinner was considered a kind gesture from the Azhar officials towards their Christian brothers. The head of the church delegation thanked the Azhar,...
Date of source: Friday, January 19, 2001
The 13th International Islamic Conference will be held in Cairo next May. The conference will discuss innovations in Islamic thought. The Minister of the Waqfs declared that the conference will be followed by a celebration of the Birth of the Prophet Mohammed.
Date of source: Friday, January 19, 2001
Scholars of the Azhar and Ayatollahs held a conference in Iran in an attempt to bring the Sunnite and Shiite denominations closer together. All the different trends in Iran welcomed the role of the Azhar in bringing the Islamic denominations closer. The conference honored Imam Al-Bargroudi, one of...
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2000
The supreme Administrative Court ruled in favor of canceling a previous ruling by the Governor of Cairo, which states the Azhar Scholars Front should be dissolved.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 17, 2001
A CIA. report about the future of the world draws a very gloomy picture for the Middle East and North Africa. It foretells of an increase in pressures the countries of the region face in all fields and their inability to overcome these pressures. It pointed out that democracy and openness are the...
Date of source: Thursday, January 18, 2001
The lawyer of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya said that if investigations proved that members of the group were behind the armed robbery of the national bank of Al-Marragha it meant that those who rejected the initiative denouncing violence had begun to take practical steps. A statement was issued by the...
Date of source: Thursday, January 18, 2001
The spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood expressed his uneasiness about calls for the return of the electoral list. He believes that this is against the constitution and aims to rule out certain political trends. He noted that the brotherhood’s attitude concerning the Shura Council’s elections is...