Date of source: Tuesday, June 1, 2004
The Egyptian Higher State Security Prosecution renewed the jail sentence of 53 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood for a period of 15 days pending investigations into the group’s most recent cases.
The authorities are still searching for three suspects wanted in relation to the case, two of...
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
Three runaway suspects turned themselves in to the Egyptian authorities, increasing the number of arrested Muslim Brotherhood members to fifty-eight. One Muslim Brotherhood member, Muhammad Ibrahim, has yet to be arrested.
The prosecution for Higher State Security sentenced the three suspects to...
Date of source: Friday, June 4, 2004
The court hearings of the American demand that Abu Hamza Al-Masry be handed over to them is taking place this week in a British court. The official hearing will take place on the 23rd of July. It has been stated that the FBI filed a case against Al-Masry by using information divulged by prison...
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 2004
His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, the Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark, stated that the Holy Synod decided that Jehovah Witnesses and Adventists are not Christians because they believe that Jesus Christ is Angel Michael.
Date of source: Sunday, July 11, 2004
Dr. Aly Gomaa, Egypt’s mufti—the highest Islamic cleric authorized to issue fatwa or Islamic legal opinion, in an interview with Watani International said that the call to put the Egyptian house in order was needless, since the Egyptian house was already in. admirable order. I thus find it...
Date of source: Monday, July 12, 2004
Usama Wadia reports what happened to Ingy Nagy William after the AWR team investigated the reasons of her conversion to Islam. Ingy ran away from her Muslim family in order to get married to her Muslim friend.
Date of source: Sunday, April 24, 2005
Today’s complaint concerns the by – now- famous ridiculous error committed by civil register clerks who register Christian citizens as “ Muslim” in official identification documents. This usually occurs in the case of the new computerized ID cards and birth certificates.
Date of source: Friday, July 2, 2004
Investigations are underway by the censorship authorities
concerning the copies of Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s “Fall of the Imam” that were leaked to the
Egyptian market, although the authorities had confiscated copies of the novel on December 13,
2000. The confiscation of the novel has caused...
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
The
Alexandria Document on the “Problems of Arab Reform: Vision and Implementation" presented a
vision of the change which Arab intellectuals aspire for in the Arab World, along political,
economic, social, cultural and civil society axes.
The aspired reform calls for giving civil
society free...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 20, 2004
The article discusses the issue of national unity between Christians and Muslims in Egypt. The author cites the relation of love and intimate friendship between Pope Shenouda and the Grand Imam of the Azhar, Dr. Tantawi. Bibawi tells a story about Amr Bin Al-As who returned the head of the St. Mark...