Date of source: الأحد, شباط (فبراير) 17, 2008
The Supreme Administrative Court ruled last weekend in favor of 15 Christians who had converted to Islam and later reverted to their original Christianity and were officially accepted in the Church, and wished to claim their legal rights as Christians. While Christian public and human and...
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 21, 2008
The article tackles the issue of the participation of the illegal Muslim Brotherhood group, as well as other political Islam movements, in politics.
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 5, 2007
The article reports on the spread of Niqāb-clad women in society.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 28, 2007
The following lines present more details about the Jihād introspections, their advocates and their opponents. While some people consider Imām’s revisions a turning point in the history of the Islamic groups, many observers doubt the authenticity of the revisions.
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 15, 2007
The Egyptian press publishes extracts from Imām’s book of revisions. The book was recently published to announce al-Jihād Islamic organization’s initiative to quell violence and lead interventions.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 19, 2007
The press review detects the ongoing discussions in Egyptian press on the chaos of Fatwás, especially the reactions to the recent Fatwá of the Egyptian Muftī Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘ah who refused to consider the Egyptian young men who drowned on the Italian cost to be martyrs.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 20, 2007
The recent clash between journalists and the grand Imām of the Azhar after the latter’s controversial speech, in which he demanding punishing rumor-mongers and false reporters with 80 lashes, has marked a new critical turning point in the already-strained relations between non-governmental press...
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 11, 2007
The grand Imām of the Azhar’s declarations about the Islamic punishment imposed on people who spread rumors that hurt others has increased tension in press milieus. Journalists reacted fiercely to the grand Iimām’s declarations and called for his resignation.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 3, 2007
15 Egyptian independent newspapers refused to publish their publications on October 7, 2007. Other newspapers criticized the gesture and its motivations, choosing instead to express themselves “positively.” Freedom of the press is a pivotal issue in Egyptian media nowadays.
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 26, 2007
Politicians, thinkers, and human right activists have asserted that the long-awaited platform of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group is a huge jump backward in politics as it clearly rules women and Coptic citizens out of high leading positions.