Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 1999
The hopes and expectations for Mubarak’s coming period of presidency are summarized by a well known Christian columnist.
Date of source: Friday, August 13, 1999
The prosecutor-general of Sohag decided to reopen the investigations in the incidents of Al-Koshh. 200 Copts presented their complaints to the new prosecutor in which they were asking him to reopen the investigations in the cases of torture by policemen after two Christian men had been killed in...
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 1999
Many times claims of kidnap and rape are not correct but this story in the Egyptian Gazette proofs that women can be raped. The culprits were caught and one of them was sentenced to death.
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 1999
In the mind of the author, the report of Drs. Cornelis Hulsman prepared for the New York Council of Churches a few weeks ago regarding the alleged kidnappings, rapes and forced conversions to Islam of young Christian girls was like a bomb destroying the claims of the Coptic groups in the USA who...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 1999
Dr. Nabila Micha’il protests that certain words attributed to Maurice Sadek in an interview with Rose El-Youssef are not true. But Rose El-Youssef says they have the tape of the interview with Sadek and that he has not sent a denial of what he said to Rose el-Youssef because he knows quite well...
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
Hanna claims Egypt has the ability to accept and accommodate differences. It is a divine dichotomy which has become codified under the rhetoric of national unity. It reflects the close and amicable relation between Islam and Christianity and is a product of the cultural and historical...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 1999
Human Rights Organizations have the lion’s share in spreading rumors and lies abroad and, in this way, support extremism. The game is to cry about the lost democracy and freedom and put terrorism in the shape of human rights. They have found their target in trying to abolish the emergency law which...
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
Egyptians opposed to the trial of civilians by the military celebrated when Egypt’s Higher Administrative Court (HAC) invalidated the practice on August 8. The ruling specifically targeted a 1986 presidential decree which referred some 77 Islamic militants suspected of conspiring to blow up video...
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 1999
After having left Egypt ten years ago will the blind sheikh return to Egypt? This question is repeated several times after the declarations of the Minster of Internal Affairs. The Minister said, " There is no objection against the return of Sheikh Omar, but on one condition which is that he serve...
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 1999 to Wednesday, August 18, 1999
[taken from Al-Hayat of August 4, 1999]
Until recently, the official word was that Morocco was immune to Islamic fundamentalism, a phenomena which is prevalent in other North African countries. A statement made by the late Moroccan king asserting that women and cultured people comprise a bulwark...