Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2005
President Husnī Mubārak phoned Pope Shenouda III to congratulate him on the Coptic Christmas and expressed heartfelt appreciation for the prelate and the Copts of Egypt. The President reiterated that Egypt is the country of all Egyptians, Muslims and Copts, and that Christians in Egypt are no...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2005
The US Department of State recently published its first annual report in accordance to the law on “anti-Semitism in the world.” The U.S. Congress proposed the law in October, the president signed it within one week, and the annual report was published one month later. The U.S. Congress proposed the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 15, 2005
The thing I liked most about Anbā Bisantī’s interview was that immense amount of candor, clarity and free expression of ideas but I was uneasy about some ideas he mentioned.
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2005
About the same time as his predecessor last year, the sixth leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Ma’moun al-Hudaybī passed away, leaving behind a controversy around the nomination of the new leader.
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2005
The U.S. State Department, together with the C.I.A., has finished the 2005-2006 report on the U.S. policy towards the Middle East. According to the report, the U.S. government will demand that Egypt remove all the barriers hindering the role of civil organizations.
Date of source: Friday, January 7, 2005
At the request of Dr. ‘Abd al-Rahmān al- ‘Adawī, the Azhar discussed the correct understanding of the term ‘anti-Semitic’. The discussion came after the emergence of the new U.S. law on anti-Semitism.
Date of source: Thursday, January 6, 2005
U.S. Department of State issued its first report on Anti-Semitism in the world, in which it adopted the same accusations as those of some Jewish and Zionist organizations towards European, Islamic, and Arab nations.
Date of source: Friday, January 7, 2005
Referring to Fukuyama’s article Their Target: The Modern World, in which he concluded that Muslims are against religious tolerance and secularism, I would like to forewarn of the consequences of confusing the ‘modernization of Islam’ with the ‘Western secular modernity’, which the West imposes on...
Date of source: Sunday, January 9, 2005
In an interview with the TV program al-k, President Mubārak asserted that Egypt is the homeland of all Egyptians, Muslims and Christians. He also warned against the consequences of escalating any Muslim–Christian individual incident.
Date of source: Saturday, January 1, 2005
A wide-scale controversy has recently broken out over Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution inside a number of US schools as parents objected to including the theory in the syllabi on the grounds that it clashed with their Christian beliefs.