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On the first anniversary of the July 7 London bombings, Al-Sharq al-Awsat devoted much space in its issues of July 6 to 8, 2006 to articles analyzing a recent survey by The Times on the terrorist acts which claimed 52 lives and injured more than 700 people.
The Shūrá [Consultative] Council has recently agreed to discuss proposed amendments to some articles of the penal code pertaining to the imprisonment of journalists in publication-related cases. In an attempt to express their opposition to the proposed draft law, a large number of journalists on...
The recent decision of the People’s Assembly to ban ‘The Da Vinci Code’ has provoked considerable controversy amongst Egyptian intellectuals, dividing opinions between those who defended the movie on grounds of freedom of expression and those who condemned it as blasphemous and misleading.
Egyptian President Muhammad Husnī Mubārak yesterday opened the Coptic Museum in Old Cairo, recently renovated at a cost of L.E. 30 million. The renovation was made through a $300 million from the Japanese government, the Egyptian minister of culture, Fārouq Husnī said.
The spiritual leader of the Monastery of St. Macarius, Father Mattā al-Miskīn [Reviewer: Matthew the poor], has passed away at the age of 87 after a life of great and fruitful labor for the welfare of human beings.
Rumors went around that Pope Shenouda III, the Patriarch of Alexandria and the See of St. Mark, had traveled to Germany to undergo a backbone surgery. Spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church, Bishop Marqus, criticizes some private newspapers, which he says have published false rumors about...
The Evangelical Church in Misr al-Jadīda has planned to screen the movie, ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ and to follow the screening with a panel discussing the contents of the book, upon which the movie was based.
A few days ago, Father Mattā al-Miskīn [Matthew the poor] passed away at the age of 87, leaving behind a legacy of books on monastic life. In his book, al-Kanīsa wa al-Dawla [The church and the state], Father al -Miskīn warned against sowing sedition between Muslims and Christians in Egypt,...
Two weeks ago, al-Fajr published a letter sent in by a Bahā’ī reader, who discussed in detail the principles of the Bahā’ī faith. In its issue of June 19, 2006, al-Fajr publishes two more letters sent in by Muslim readers responding to what they described as falsehoods contained in the...
The Egyptian parliament yesterday debated the movie, ‘The Da Vinci Code’ at the request of several Coptic members, who demanded a ban on both the movie and the book for being blasphemous to Jesus Christ. The Egyptian minister of culture, Dr. Fārouq Husnī, vowed to ban the movie and to pull the...

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