Date of source: Sunday, August 19, 2007
Cairo churches offer financial and in-kind aid to the refugees of Darfur. The following lines shed light on the refugees’ lives in Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Jamāl al-Bannā reviews the contents of a Web site of a Sudanese Muslim scholar who belongs to the Qur’anis Group. The Sudanese scholar refuted the teaching of a book that belonged to a member of the ‘Sunnah Supporters’ group which affirmed that the Prophetic Sunnah is as important to Muslims as the...
Date of source: Saturday, July 14, 2007
Dr. Rafīq Ḥabīb doubts the real motives behind the American annual aid to Egypt, claiming that the American administration manipulates the Egyptian government through such financial and developmental aid to serve American interests in the region.
Date of source: Thursday, July 5, 2007
Muftī of Egypt Shaykh ‘Alī Jum‘ah talked about a number of issues, in an interview with al-Sharq al-Awsat, including fixed interest, setting up a body to monitor Fatwás, and the importance of coexistence between Muslims in the East and West.
Date of source: Sunday, July 1, 2007
‘Ādil Jundī writes his article from the perspective of a Muslim Egyptian, saying that he would work hard to purify his religious heritage by subjecting it to reason and research.
Date of source: Sunday, June 17, 2007
The prominent Egyptian intellectual Tareq Heggy wrote about a number of topics related to the developments in the Egyptian and Arab arenas, showing his impressions and opinions on these critical issues.
Date of source: Sunday, June 10, 2007
This article talks about an Egyptian nun who has been serving the poor and sick in the Malakal province of Sudan for the past four years. Sister Lisa al-Hakīm stresses that people should give to the poor in times of need, and be thankful for what God has bestowed upon them.
Date of source: Saturday, June 16, 2007 to Friday, June 22, 2007
The article is based on a file that was issued by Rose al-Yūsuf magazine on the role held by religious men in both Christianity and Islam in society, and their disputes with each other.
Date of source: Thursday, May 24, 2007
The author urges Egypt to accelerate efforts in order to escape the chaos of extremism which is happening in other Arab countries, and describes the main features of the extremist mentality.
Date of source:
The Qur’ān desecration incidents still echo in the U.S. and spark outrage across the Islamic world. The scandal that the American Newsweek Magazine unveiled has made the American hostility towards Islam no secret to anyone.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
The latest terrorist attacks in Algeria and Morocco were a considerable warning of the increasing power of the Islamic groups in general and that of al-Qā‘idah in particular. The attacks sparked world wide protests and many people attributed them to the U.S. strategy in the Middle East.
Date of source: Thursday, April 12, 2007
The Azhar officials have admitted the existence of copies of the Azhar Mushaf in Sudan that contain
typographical mistakes
Date of source: Sunday, April 15, 2007
The author considers the rights of minorities and if the rights afforded to them hold up to the standards of Sharī‘ah and the Qur’ān.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Coptic thinkers in Egypt have rejected a conference called for by expatriate Copt Dr. ‘Adlī Abādīr entitled, ‘The Rights of Minorities in the Middle East.’ The organizers have launched an aggressive attack on political authorities in Egypt, accusing them of causing a setback in social and economic...
Date of source: Sunday, April 1, 2007
The author asserts that secularism is the right way to peaceful cooperative society.
Date of source: Thursday, March 29, 2007
Islamic scholars of the Azhar have rejected a fatwá issued by a key Islamic leader in Sudan, Dr. Hasan al-Turābī, in which he denies the hadd of stoning a male adulterer, believing it to be a Jewish rather than an Islamic order. He also recognises the testimony made by an educated woman as equal to...
Date of source: Monday, March 19, 2007
In his article, Dr. Sa‘īd highlights the present Egyptian lack of national concordance. He tries to explain the source of the major disagreement over the Constitution, stating various reasons.
Date of source: Sunday, March 4, 2007
The author discusses the second article of the Egyptian Constitution.
Date of source: Sunday, June 9, 2002
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Date of source: Monday, February 26, 2007
Dr. Jābir ‘Aṣfūr, the secretary general of the Supreme Council for Culture, responds to an article entitled, ’No Theocracy in Islām,’ authored by the grand Imām of the Azhar, Muḥammad Sayyid Ṭanṭāwī, published in al-Ahrām on February 21, 2007.
Date of source:
Sa‘īd Shu‘ayb reports about the Ḥadd of Riddah and how it is manipulated by Islamic extremists.
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2006
A description of a visit to the Convent of St. Dimyānah on the Occasion of the festival of Saint Dimyānah whereby Metropolitan Bīshūy provided the delegation with a detailed explanation of Coptic traditions related to the convent. Dr. Picard noted differences between the way Metropolitan Bīshūy and...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Discussions about Maḥmūd Ṭāhā’s work 22 years after his execution.
Date of source: Saturday, February 3, 2007 to Friday, February 9, 2007
Muhammad Tuhāmī stresses the necessity of separating religion and politics.
Date of source: Saturday, February 3, 2007
The article talks about the Ministry of Interior’s intention to commute the death sentences of the leaders of al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah and al-Jihād organization to life imprisonment.
Date of source: Sunday, January 28, 2007
The author discusses Christianity in Egypt, and what it means to be a Copt living in a society that constantly struggles with social issues.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Recent statistics released by the United Nations Children’s Fund [UNICEF, see: http://www.unicef.org/], revealed that Egypt comes second on the list of countries that practice female circumcision.In hisbook, ’Khitān al-Ināth Fī Manzūr al-Islām’ [Female Circumcision from an Islamic Perspective],...
Date of source: Sunday, January 21, 2007
The author discusses the belief that secularism is the only way of making headway and progress in the Arab world. He critiques Lafīf Lakhdar’s arguments, and considers how relevant they are in reforming Islamic society.
Date of source: Thursday, January 18, 2007
In his three articles, ‘Abd al-Khāliq stresses the anti-Islamic strategy of the United States and highlights the role of the American Democratic Party to mend the deformed picture of the U.S. in its two sided foreign strategy.
Date of source: Sunday, January 14, 2007
If Irving was tried and condemned for his viewpoints who would try our intellectuals, officials and clergymen who individually or collectively deny the human massacres which occurred in the Arab region such as Darfur in Sudan, Halabjah and al-Dijīl in Iraq.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Al-Zawāhirī discusses the conflict
between Islām and atheism and the current circumstances that the Arab region is experiencing in a new video tape.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 12, 2006
A discussion about a conference on human rights, the innovation of religious speeches, the
relationship between religion and the state, the economic progress of non-Arab Muslim countries in Asia, and
problems of applying Islamic laws with regard to marriage, divorce, and inheritance in non-Muslim...
Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2006
The author discusses national unity in the Arab world.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 5, 2006
The article talks
about a seminar on preserving Coptic antiquities. They are
the milestone in ancient Egyptian civilization
and culture.
Date of source: Monday, November 27, 2006
The stand of the judge’s club against
appointing female judges shocked civil and feminist trends which believe that this stand is contrary to the
principle of judge’s independency. It also violates the Egyptian constitution and the international
charters.
Date of source:
Investigations
into the
activities of Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Director of the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Social Research, revealed new
developments in the case. What the investigations and inquiries revealed is recounted in this article.
Date of source:
From his jail in the United States, Shaykh Omar Abdel
Rahman, the spiritual leader of al-
Gamaa’t al-Islāmīyah in Egypt, issued a controversial statement, in
which he withdrew his support for their initiative to
abandon violence. This initiative was originally
launched in July 1997.
Date of source: Saturday, October 28, 2006
Ramzī Zalqamah highlights the danger of anarchy and ideological and religious divisions in the Middle East, asserting that national unity and civil governments are the only way to live in peace in the region.
Date of source: Friday, October 27, 2006
Muftīī of the Republic, Dr.
‘Alī Jum‘ah, severely criticizes religious opinions proclaimed by non-specialists on
satellite channels and said these opinions, which should not be called fatwás, cause confusion amongst
Muslims. He urged society to adopt a common culture to confront these opinions.
Date of source: Friday, October 20, 2006
Father
Giuseppe Scattolin, a professor of Islamic mysticism at the Faculty of
Religious Studies of the Rome-based
Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi ed’Islamistica (P.I.S.A.I.)
[Reviewer: Pontifical Institute for Arab and
Islamic Studies] speaks to al-Wafd about his interest in
Islamic Sūfism...