Date of source: Sunday, February 12, 2006
‘Abd al-Mun‘im Abu al-Futouh spoke in this interview with al-‘ظگArabī about his controversial visit to Egyptian Nobel laureate Najīb Mahfouz within the group’s activities as being in contact with intellectuals in the society, as well as the group’s relations with Copts.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 14, 2006
The author argues that the characters in Nobel laureate Najīb Mahfouz’s novel Awlād Hāritnā strongly represent those of the 1952 revolution and its incidents and shifts, contrary to the notion that it has represented certain prophets and involved despising religion.
Date of source: Monday, February 13, 2006
The author discusses the pleadings of Nobel laureate Najīb Mahfouz’s lawyer, who refuted charges of blasphemy pressed against the writer over his controversial novel Awlād Hāritnā.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
The author says that Nobel laureate Najīb Mahfouz was sued for adding to the list of God’s Fairest Names. He added that the lawyer also demanded the separation of Mahfouz from his wife, like the case of Islamic thinker Dr. Nasr Hāmid Abu Zayd.
Date of source: Thursday, February 2, 2006
In a panel held on the sidelines of the Cairo International Book Fair, Muftī of the Republic Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘a surprised everyone when he announced that Najīb Mahfouz’ controversial Awlād Hāratnā was not referred to the Azhar for religious opinion.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Half a century after it was banned, Najīb Mahfouz’s controversial novel, Awlād Hāritnā, is returning to the Egyptian market, this time with an introduction by Islamic thinker Ahmad Kamāl Abu al-Majd at the request of Mahfouz himself.
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2006
Awlād Hāritnā, the controversial novel by Najīb Mahfouz caused controversy both when it was published and again in 1988 when the Swedish Nobel academy announced that Mahfouz had won its prize for literature and praised his novel as "spiritual”.
Date of source: Thursday, January 26, 2006
Khālid Bura‘ī presents a list of banned books in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2006
A discussion of homosexuality and Egyptian law taken from a bachelor’s thesis on Egyptian law.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 21, 2005
In Fathī Ghānim’s famous novel Bint Min Shubrā [A girl from Shubrā], a Muslim man, Karīm Safwān, says, "Shubrā can never be Shubrā without Sainte Teresa." Asked by the Christian woman Maria Sandro whether he knows Saint Teresa, Safwān replies that: "My mother told me that her brother Bassyounī goes...