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6. Investigations reveal; students have not read the novel but took their impressions from a newspaper. Female students started the riots, stoned the police and their cars
Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2000
75 students from the Azhar University were detained on accusations of several offenses. Students participating in the riots, denied reading the book and stated that their knowledge was derived only from information published in a newspaper.
5. 75 students apprehended during the Azhar University riots
Date of source: Wednesday, May 10, 2000
75 students were held in detention for 15 days for participating in the Azhar riots, and for some other charges. The students revealed their refusal of Haider’s "Banquet for the Seaweed". Other articles about the same subject appeared in Al-Akhbar, Al-Wafd, Al-Ahrar of the same day.
4. Statement by the Ministry of Interior about the incidents at the Azhar
Date of source: Tuesday, May 9, 2000
Subtitle: The Minister of Culture: We don’t approve of any form of blasphemy Groups of the Azhar University students gathered near midnight on May 7 at the Azhar University City to proclaim their opposition to the work of Haider Haider " Banquet for the Seaweed". The Minister of Culture explained...
3. In opposition to " A Banquet for the Seaweed", Riots Rampant at the Azhar University. Tens injured during engagements with the police. The Campus area is surrounded
Date of source: Tuesday, May 9, 2000
Students of the Azhar University set fire to furniture and attacked the police by throwing stones.
1. The author Haider Haider tells Sabbah Al-Kheir: Islam is innocent and abhors fanatics
Date of source: Tuesday, May 9, 2000
Haider is astonished by the critical attack in Egypt against his work" Banquet for the Seaweed". He says that characters in literary works are free to think as they wish, even to adopt opposing thoughts.
26. Israel seeks the Egyptian Jews, there are only 50 and most of them are old
Date of source: Wednesday, May 3, 2000
The Jewish state started to look for the decreasing number of Egyptian Jews, who have refused to immigrate to Israel. They preferred to stay in Egypt in order to maintain the synagogues. The case was reopened after the publishing last week of a feature in "Ma’aref" newspaper about the situation and...
24. The surge of the new cities is void of land allocated for churches
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2000
Christians dwelling in the new cities are suffering in terms of meeting their spiritual needs. No churches are built there. The thought of purchasing a land to build a church, will cost them to meet the complications of the authorities. If they succeed in overcoming this, they will get caught in...
23. The Coptic Art in an exhibition organized by the Arab World Institute in Paris
Date of source: Wednesday, May 3, 2000
On the 15th of May, Mr. Farouq Hosni, the Minister of Culture, will inaugurate the first exhibition of the Egyptian Coptic monuments under the name of "the Coptic Art in Egypt" in the biggest halls of the Arab World Institute in the heart of the French capital, Paris.
21. The sheikhs and mosques of the lower movement. The drift towards banning "with and without reasons"!
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2000
The extremist groups are trying everyday to break the blockade that was imposed by the government and the people after they had suffered from their actions. In each new attempt to break this blockade they now try to use a new method. The members of the new kind of extremism are calling themselves...
20. Fear God concerning Egypt and the Azhar
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2000
After giving his opinion concerning the freedom of expression, Dr. Ahmed Omar Hashem recounts the role of the Azhar, the greatest institution of religion and science, that has risen in Egypt. According to him the role of this great institution is appreciated by many great historians and leaders.

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