Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
Pro-reform Iranian newspaper editors on July 26 condemned the guilty verdict of a clerical court against the editor-in-chief of the leading daily Salam for publishing a "secret" letter from hardline Revolutionary Guards commanders demanding that moderate President Mohammad Khatami crack down...
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
[in Al-Ahram, July 21, 1999]
The author, who is Chairman of the General Council in the Ministry of Insurance and Social Affairs, writes in answer to criticism in Egypt and suggests that "The new NGO law is an honor to every Egyptian."
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
"Power to Change" was the theme of the World YWCA’s 29th council in Cairo. Throughout the conference, Egypt was acknowledged as an excellent example of co-operation between Muslims and Christians by encouraging to work together in all fields of voluntary work.
Date of source: Sunday, August 5, 2012
Four people were killed and 43 were wounded a crowded market in the capital of Yemen, when a gunman threw a hand grenade and then opened fire after a Yemeni court upheld the death sentence on the leader of an Islamic militant group.
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
The Ansar-e Hezbollah, a movement of hard-line zealots that strikes fear into many Iranians, has issued a call to arms to protect the Islamic system. They say the time has come to provide the movement with arms and "revolutionary" powers to finish off "liberals" who question the supreme rule of...
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden has decided to leave Afghanistan, fearing a fresh U.S. attack against him, the independent Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said on Friday.
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
The late King Hassan II actively used religious symbols, to shape himself into the ultimate father figure in the country and outflank his Islamist opposition. Morocco kept relatively free of the fundamentalist problems that have plagued its neighbors. It remains to be seen if the young King...
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
The High Administrative Court has decided to ban students from entering schools while wearing a niqab (full-face veil).
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999
The fact that some below average university students pass with flying colors while some of their distinguished fellows barely make the grade is a surprise which reoccurs every year when exam results are released.
Date of source: Friday, July 23, 1999
If the situation was not extremely embarrassing I would not have dared to write these lines. The situation is embarrassing for the non-governmental organizations because they have lost confidence in the governmental system.