Date of source: Friday, June 30, 2006
Dr.
Wasīm al-Siysī disputes the claim that states ruled by religion are more successful
than those ruled
by positivist man-made laws, using the ancient Egyptian state and the modern state of
Israel as cases in point.
Date of source: Thursday, June 8, 2006
In his interview with al-Maydān, the spokesman of the Muslim
Brotherhood, Muhammad al
-Katātinī comments that the group does not want Jamāl Mubarak to
participate in the next
presidential elections and demands equal opportunities for every Egyptian citizen.
Date of source: Saturday, June 3, 2006 to Friday, June 9, 2006
The author discusses an
Egyptian
court ruling granting divorce to a number of Christians who, in accordance with the Christian precepts,
can
not remarry, proposing unified civil laws applied to both Muslims and Christians in personal status affairs.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
‘Abd al- Rahīm ‘Alī traces the history of the emergency law in Egypt. He also examines the terrorist attacks that rocked Egypt from 1981 through 1990, arguing that the emergency law failed to defeat terrorism.
Date of source: Monday, May 22, 2006
Nearly 480 people, including 314 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood have been arrested on charges of organizing unauthorized demonstrations in support of the judges, who blew the whistle on election fraud.
Date of source: Friday, May 26, 2006
The Egyptian Ministry of Trade and Industry has rejected the use of religious slogans as
trade
marks, but the company Mecca Cola is filing a lawsuit to register its trademark in Egypt
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2006
The author
criticizes statements made by intellectual Dr. Silīm al-
‘Awā, in which he emphasizes that
Copts are dependent on foreign support in solving their
problems and that Copts’ conditions are very much
better than those of Muslims.
Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006
Al-Musawwar had an interview with the vice-president of the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights, Kamāl Abu al-Majd, where he discussed religious, legal, political and security problems in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, May 4, 2006
The
People’s Assembly’s approval of the two-year extension of the 25-
year-old emergency law has provoked a
furious reaction among Egyptian opposition, including the legally banned
Muslim Brotherhood. Many people
argue that the extension of the law will breed more violence in Egyptian society...
Date of source: Monday, May 8, 2006
The Egyptian minister of interior, Major General Habīb al- ‘Ādlī, has submitted a memorandum to the Administrative Judicial Court, calling for the dismissal of the lawsuits filed by 150 Copts, who embraced Islam and afterwards decided to convert back to Christianity, and accusing the converts of...