Arab West Report Egyptian press summaries and media research for dialogue

Sāmī Ja'far interviewed Jihād ‘Awdah, member of National Democratic Party's Politics committee; ‘Awdah believe that to get rid of Muslim Brotherhood groups in Gaza, Bahrain, and Kuwait, we need begin from Egypt.

‘Awdah added that the defeat of Sudan's MB came after an attempt to kill President Husnī Mubārak, while MB cooperated with the regime to get rid of Islamic groups.

Moreover, some of the country's apparatuses preferred Muhammad Badī' as the group Guide because country's knew that he was going to withdraw form the parliament elections.

Secretary General of the Middle East Council of Churches, Girgis Ibrāhīm Sālih, stressed the need to recall the sixtieth anniversary of the plight of the Palestinian people and seek to return these usurped people to their home at the meeting of the Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees.

The State Security Prosecution accuses two professors at the Suez Canal and the Azhar universities of manufacturing a plane without a pilot.

Fahmī Huwaydī writes about two fabricated stories about Hamās that were published in Egyptian newspapers as part of a plan aims to incite people against the resistance.

Clare Nāsif comments on a fatwá delivered by a Palestinian shaykh affiliated to the Hamās faction in which he called for his countrymen to kill Egyptian boarders troops when they overthrow Egypt’s boarders at Gaza.

A Palestinian shaykh from the city of Khān Yūnus has issued a fatwá calling for Egyptian troops on the Egypt-Gaza border to be killed if they resist any Palestinian overthrow of the border fence.

The article reflects on the current situation in Israel and Palestine. The author discusses the various strategies that Hamās and Fatah are taking and analyzes the possible different Israeli reactions to the situation.

This issue covers a number of topics dealing again with the freedom of expression. Pope Shenouda discusses the need for Arab unity to address the tensions in the Middle East, and Max Michel publishes a book critiquing the Coptic Orthodox Church.

Dr. Hālah Mustafá, the editor-in-chief of al-Dimuqrātīyah magazine at al-Ahrām and member of the National Democratic Party’s Policies Secretariat gives her opinion on current national and international issues and discusses the obstacles to political reform in Egypt.