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Summary: On the fourth anniversary of the celebration of “international access to information day,” the Egyptian Observatory for Journalism and Media (EOJM) published a research paper entitled “Freedom of information in Egypt...a constitutional principle without legal regulation.” In the report,...
Egyptian papers gave much space to the different opinions about the controversial fatwa of Sheikh Al-Eish which incriminated dealing with the Iraqi Transitional Ruling Council. They also comment on the reaction to the fatwa within American political circles. The fatwa raised many questions about...
The religious dimension of the war on Iraq has been and still is the focus of articles covering the war. This is in addition to news items about Kurdish Islamic groups being attacked by the US and comments on fundamentalist Islam in the light of the war. For the first time, the role of the media or...
Egypt?s new Muftī stressed that there will be coordination among the different Islamic institutions to arrive at a unified Islamic opinion and to help people avoid confusion that results from contradictory Fatāwá. He said that he is a son of the Azhar and so he will be keen on not issuing Fatāwá...
President Mubarak has met with the delegation representing the three heavenly religions in the inter- religious dialogue conference that was held in Alexandria. He warned against the provocative activities of Israel as it is in the nature of such activities to lead to more blood shedding. At the...
The Sheikh of Azhar’s withdrawal of his call to Muslims to visit the Aqs...
The bloc of infidelity secures its activity The article discusses a report by the Azhar Scholars Front attacking the well-known Islamic scholar Hassan Hanafy. Dr. Abdel Mo’iti Bayoumi, former dean of the prestigious Azhar College of Religious Fundamentals, had the courage to come to the...
The Sheikh of the Azhar approves that women can be judges, muftis and members of the Islamic Research Institute. He stressed that cloning human beings is impermissible. He believes that God may have given Amr Khaled the gift of preaching or perhaps people are impressed by his new way of addressing...
The fatwas of the Grand Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, have always created controversy. In an interview with al-‘Arabī, Dr. Tantāwī hints that he has not read all the presidential candidates’ electoral programs - yet declares the Azhar’s full support of President Mubārak.
Like an ice ball, sectarian sedition feeds on all it encounters en route, thus growing larger and more threatening to national unity in Egypt, read a feature by Al-Arabi! A few days back, sectarian sedition flames came to the surface in Assiut with one of the National Democratic Party NDP leaders...

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