Date of source: Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Usāmah Nabīl reports on the different opinions concerning a draft law to regulate the process of issuing Fatwás.
Date of source: Monday, June 25, 2007
The Iraqi Shī‘ah protest against the Egyptian government and threaten to organize demonstrations, following the government’s rejection to authorize them to build a Shiite mosque. While the Iraqi Shiites ask for their freedom of creed, an Egyptian security source asserts that there is no separation...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 26, 2007
The Azhar asserted that dialogue with British institutions, bodies and the Anglican Church is continuing regardless of the British government’s decision to award Salman Rushdie with a knighthood.
Date of source: Monday, September 17, 2007
An article compares Salman Rushdie to Dr. Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm because both threaten the stability of the Arab world. A female PhD student was denied access to AUC’s library for wearing a niqāb.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 13, 2007
While the Coptic Orthodox Church prohibits visits to Jerusalem, considering it as support of the
Israeli occupation, the Catholic Church permits the visit as a means of supporting the Palestinians who live in the
neighborhood of the Holy Places, whose income greatly depends on the Christian...
Date of source: Sunday, June 17, 2007
Midḥat Bishāy responds to an article by Coptic researcher Sāmiḥ Fawzī about the
social seclusion of Copts inside church walls.
Date of source: Saturday, June 16, 2007
Dr. Rafīq Habīb, the author, thinks that there could be a constructive relation between the state and the
religion, if only the nation chooses a specific Sharī‘ah and safeguards enforcing its principles.
Date of source: Saturday, June 16, 2007
The author suggests that the hope of
the majority of human rights organizations in Egypt is to receive foreign funding. He reveals new projects in the name of
human rights and citizenship being drafted Egyptian human rights organizations and international institutions.
Date of source: Monday, June 18, 2007
The author reports on incidents of forgery in Qinā during the
Shūrá Council’s elections.
Date of source: Saturday, June 16, 2007
During the Conference on Democracy and Security held in Prague, the Human Rights activist
Dr. Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm asked President Bush to decrease a part of the American aid to Egypt. This
is in order to place pressure on the regime to be more concerned about democracy and Human Rights within...