Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 20, 2005
The author explores the historic and political context into which the text naming Islamic sharica as the main source of legislation within Egypt was introduced.
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 19, 2005
During a lengthy interview, Pope Shenouda discusses Coptic identity and history, the Palestinian question, the churches support of President Mubārak in the upcoming elections, the issue of national unity in Egypt and much more.
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 7, 2005
The era of President Husnī Mubārak has witnessed some kind of balanced relations in a way that was not available in the previous one.
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 12, 2005
Rifcat Sayyid Ahmad argues that a book, recently issued by al-Jamā‘at al-Islāmīya [Islamic Group], is just a collection of illogical political and religious justifications for the corrupt and despotic regimes across the Arab world.
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 5, 2005
Preparations for the presidential elections have revealed a new classification inside Egypt’s political Islamic organizations.
Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 1, 2005
The Jihād organization considers that governments which do not apply sharica [Islamic law] must be attacked in order to force them to do so.
Date of source: الأحد, آب (اغسطس) 28, 2005
Once asked what democracy is, former Vice-President Hubert Humphrey replied, “It is the right not to listen.” The citizens of a political community debate and argue many political and non-political issues vital or minor to their existence. In a non-democratic society and state, there is a monopoly...
Date of source: الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 12, 2005
Al-Sharq al-Awsat has surprised observers of the Islamic political movements by publishing a new book, written by al-Jamāca al-Islāmiyya and entitled Al-Hākimiyya: Nazra Sharciyya wa Ru’ya Wāqiciyya [Governorship: a legal look and a realistic vision]. This book has proved controversial in Egyptian...
Date of source: الاثنين, آب (اغسطس) 15, 2005
The author states that the democracy of the West, which is based on intellectual affiliation between people, does not match the Arab world, since it has not yet been modernized. He claims that the best version of democracy in the Arab world is that which depends on a "change" of power between...
Date of source: الأحد, آب (اغسطس) 7, 2005
The recent terrorist attacks in Sharm al-Sheikh executed by the Abdullah Azzam Brigades which claimed 85 lives and left more than 200 injured are nothing but the last in a long line of terrorist events in Egypt and the entire world.