Date of source: Friday, January 29, 1999
The government is trying nowadays to carry out an insurance project for the foreign tourists to protect them against terrorism.
Date of source: Saturday, January 23, 1999
The article describes the career of V. Windfuhr, correspondent of Der Spiegel in Egypt. He says Egypt is moving from a totalitarian regime to political pluralism.
Date of source: Friday, January 22, 1999
A story about a Christian girl who converted in the fifties to Islam but became known as ’the mother of Christians’ in her neighborhood in Zawya el-Hamra where she lived together with Muslim and Christian families in peace. Nadia helped the other Coptic families to nurse their babies. The...
Date of source: Monday, January 18, 1999
The Vatican International Family Conference, organized for the first time in Cairo, witnessed a heated discussion on more heated issues, from abortion, artificial insemination and homosexuality to female circumcision.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 20, 1999
The state honored the Coptic writer, Counselor Edward Ghali El-Zahabi, former Chief of the Court of State (hai’it Qadaya el-Dawla), an authority on the study of the rights of non-Muslims in an Islamic society, and a former member of the People’s Assembly, on the occasion of the Holy Mulid of the...
Date of source: Friday, January 15, 1999
All Egyptians enjoyed freedom, equality and justice under the rule of the Muslims. The whole Egyptian people, Muslim and Christian, became an inseparable part of the Islamic civilization and culture.
Date of source: Friday, January 15, 1999
Saber Shenouda Girgis is a Coptic businessman explaining why he has been making for three years charity banquets during Ramadan for Muslims.
Date of source: Friday, January 15, 1999
An interview with the Minister of Interior about the security situation; releasing fundamentalist detainees, fighting terrorism, the minister’s refusal to meet with the Muslims Brothers, the branch of the F. B. I. in Cairo, Egypt’s attitude to Britain’s refusal to extradite terrorists.
Date of source: Sunday, January 17, 1999 to Saturday, January 23, 1999
After several months of silence sheikh Yousef el-Badri resumed his hobby of scanning the society for profane concepts. This time Badri turned against Abdel Sabour Shahin for his book "My father Adam". The MET spoke with Badri.
Date of source: Friday, January 15, 1999
On the eve of the Laylat al-Qadr (the Night of the Holy Qur’an Revelation) President Mubarak urged "Muslims to deeply adopt the principles of tolerance and reject extremism and fanaticism.