Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 22, 2002
An American missionary belonging to Operation Mobilization and nurse´s aid Bonnie Weatherall, 31, was found murdered at a Christian health clinic housed in the building of an Evangelical church in Sidon, a port city in southern Lebanon. There is much speculation as to what could have been the...
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 1, 2002
The author gives details of the dialogue that took place between the Egyptian group and professors and students of Westminster University in the framework of the dialogue program organized by the American Presbyterian Church. The dialogue focused on human rights in Egypt and the relation between...
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 21, 2002
Egypt´s media slammed the U.S. ambassador in Cairo after he called for the press to vet commentary on the September 11 attacks. The spat highlighted anti-U.S. feeling in the region. Journalists and cartoonists asked the ambassador to go back to his country and accused the U.S. media of seeing the...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 6, 2002
Dr. Tarek Mitri speaks about the Islamic-Christian dialogue after September 11 and about the effect of the concept of “the clash among religions” on the course of the dialogue. He explains why calls for dialogue usually come from Christian institutions and how Arab Christians can defend the Arab-...
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 21, 2002 to الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 27, 2002
The French magazine Jeune Afrique published an article reporting that Ayman Al-Zawahry is the mastermind of Al-Qa´ida. The article recounts the story of his arrest in the republic of Daghastan five years ago when it was under Russian control.
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 21, 2002
Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi says that America insists on attacking Iraq to strip it of its power for the benefit of Israel. He adds that Americans and Israelis seek to add his name to the list of terrorists and freeze his bank accounts on grounds of his support for the Palestinian people. He...
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 21, 2002
The attacks of September 11 supported the official Egyptian viewpoint concerning the activities of radical fundamentalist movements. Before the attacks, Egypt warned Western countries against providing fundamentalists with safe harbor. However, Western countries did not respond to Egyptian demands...
Date of source: السبت, آب (اغسطس) 31, 2002 to الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 6, 2002
A professor at Cairo University expresses her sadness at the fact that hijab became widespread among female students. She believes that there are unannounced, but highly organized, institutions that brainwash those girls in order to make them wear the hijab or niqab [face cover].
Date of source: السبت, آب (اغسطس) 3, 2002 to الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 9, 2002
Arab Afghan Abdullah Annas explains the reasons behind the enmity between the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front (ISF) and the Egyptian Jihad Organization and speaks about the relationship between the Egyptian Gama´at Al-Islamiya and the ISF. He also speaks about the relationship between America and...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 1, 2002
[AWR: This is a full text translation of a Dutch text with permission of the author.]
Sociology professor Saad Eddin Ibrahim: “You can beat Saddam Hussein, no doubt. But what you cannot do is prevent a new Saddam Hussein from appearing, a new Bin Laden. As long as there is no democracy, no state...