Arab West Report Egyptian press summaries and media research for dialogue

Ayman al-Zawāhrī, the Egyptian-born leader of al-Qā'idah network, said [in a video clip broadcasted on the Internet under the pretext of 9/11 incidents] that he hopes the Arab world's uprisings that ousted presidents in Arab countires would strongly establish real Islam.

The Supreme Military Court on Monday held the first hearing of the retrial of Muhammad al-Zawāhrī, the brother of Ayman al-Zawāhrī, the current leader of al-Qaeda network.

Three others, against whom death and life sentences were issued in absentia, stand accused in the case known as The Returnees from Albania.

Jayson Casper considers the attack in Alexandria and the resulting sectarian demonstrations which arose in its wake. He explores some of the contextual issues and finds hope in an interfaith effort promoted by a dialogue group in the city. Even so, efforts to find meaning in the tragedy must go further…

The Islamic groups’ lawyer, Muntasir al-Zayyāt comments on the Islamic groups’ ideologue Sayyid Imām, his recently issued revisions and his interview with al-Hayāh.

The Egyptian press analyzes the various repercussions of the declared introspections of the Jihād Group. Political observers and specialists in political Islam differ in their evaluation of these introspections.

Robeir al-Faris recently published a book entitled, ‘The Muslim Brothers (MB) and the Copts…Repercussions of Confrontation and Dialogue.’ The following article presents an overview of the book.

Egyptian media has published abstracts from Imām’s book of revisions. The book was recently published to announce al-Jihād Islamic organization’s initiative to quell violence and lead interventions.

al-Jamā‘ah

al-Islāmīyah and al-Jihād have major structural differences; however, they are both engaged in

revisions that will stop the groups’ from using violence in their political activity. al-Qā‘idah

fears the influence of the introspections on its members.

al-Jihād ideologue, Sayyid Imām refuses to apologize for the killings and the terrorist operations which the organization committed because it would strengthen the position of opponents of the reviews within the organization.

All imprisoned leaders of the Jihād factions have unanimously approved the jurisprudential reviews’ document, authored by Sayyid Imām, the founder of the Jihād organization in Egypt.