Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 21, 2007
Security forces have intervened to ban an Iftār banquet that was organized by the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group that intended to promote their proposed political party and to give them political legitimacy.
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 15, 2007
At a time when the Egyptian press market was still discussing the aftermath of the State Security Prosecution’s interrogation of an independent journalist on charges of spreading rumors about the president’s health, a new wave of anger stormed Egyptian society after a misdemeanor court sentenced...
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 16, 2007
Robeir al-Faris discusses the decision announced by Shaykh Ṭanṭāwī regarding permitting Copts to study at the Azhar. He further mentions the recent furor caused by a documentary that depicts Christ from a Muslim perspective.
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 15, 2007
In an unprecedented move, 120 of the banned Muslim Brotherhood members have been released, reducing the number of detainees to less than 150, when two months ago there were more than a thousand members in prison. Some have described the decision as a conciliatory move made by the Ministry of...
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 16, 2007
The annual report of the State Department-affiliated U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom [USCIRF] on Egypt that was released on September 14, 2007 has created a lot of controversy within intellectual circles in Egypt.
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 10, 2007
Prince al-Hasan Bin Ṭalāl, president of the Arab Thought Forum, stresses the need to build bridges of dialogue across the Mediterranean in order to address the mass immigration problems and the humanitarian tragedies.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 11, 2007
Pope Shenouda attacked, without mentioning names, some fathers and priests who despise churches’ workers and treat them poorly during his weekly sermon at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Alexandria.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 4, 2007
The Middle East Christian Association is facing troubles with the Egyptian authorities. Two of its members in Egypt are in jail, facing charges of contempt against Islam.
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 10, 2007
The second annual conference organized by the USAID within the framework of media development, was a campaign to assassinate the national press and to promote the yellow press.
Date of source: الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 29, 2007
The recent arrest of Dr. ‘Isām al-‘Iryān, the head of the Political Office of the Muslim Brotherhood group, with another 15 key figures of the group has been reported as negatively impacting the establishment of their proposed political party. Some intellectuals regard the arrest as no more than a...