Date of source: الاثنين, شباط (فبراير) 18, 2008
Al-Bāz discusses the increasing number of Christian converts to Islam in Egypt. He presents the church’s opinion and provides numbers, although their authenticity has been called into question.
Date of source: السبت, شباط (فبراير) 23, 2008
A church lawyer sued the Ministry of Interior for its decree on canceling the lawful guiding meetings with converts to Islam.
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 21, 2008
The article discusses the emergence of a trend to file lawsuits, in which the plaintiffs demand either official recognition of their belief, as in the case of the Bahā’īs, or the right to convert from one religion to another.
Date of source: الأحد, شباط (فبراير) 17, 2008
Jundī highlights what he believes to be the difficult political reality of Egypt. After providing a historical background, he points out the defects and tries to suggest solutions.
Date of source: الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 15, 2008
The Italian TV film ’St. Peter’ staring ‘Umar al-Sharīf seems to have sparked a debate between the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church as it suggests that St. Peter the Apostle was the chief disciple, a view that the Orthodox Church denies.
Date of source: السبت, شباط (فبراير) 16, 2008 to الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 22, 2008
The article discusses the film Hasan wa-Marqus [Hasan and Marqus] that deals with the dangers of religious extremism.
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 14, 2008
The article reports on the harmonious relationship between Muslims and Christians in the Cairo suburb of Shubrā.
Date of source: السبت, شباط (فبراير) 16, 2008 to الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 22, 2008
The conservative cleric Yūsuf al-Badrī has requested that the Islamic Dā‘iyah Su‘ād Sālih publicly repent over three fatwás concerning her stances toward artists, as well as her rejection of divorce via SMS.
Date of source: الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 15, 2008
The article shows the reasons and repercussions to the recent republication of one of the 12 blasphemous caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in many Danish and European newspapers just one day after Danish police declared that it foiled a plot to murder the cartoonist.
Date of source: الأحد, شباط (فبراير) 17, 2008
The controversial statements of the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams sparked contradictory reactions. While Western and Christian observers attacked him, Muslim thinkers and intellectuals hailed him as a wise just clergyman. The Egyptian media reacted more to the angry reactions than to the...