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89. Constitutional amendments; the wind of change in Egypt
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 3, 2007 to الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 9, 2007
Observers and intellectuals of Egypt are still leading wide-ranging discussions concerning the proposed constitutional amendments. While the Muslim Brotherhood seems to reject citizenship, other observers consider it the cornerstone in building democracy and political systems. Many observers still...
2. Al-Arabi newspaper urges president to crack down on armed gangsters within the regime, Wide-scale anger in Egypt over intimidation of political opponents, Intellectuals: Thuggery is latest brainchild of the so-called ?new way of thinking?
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Shock shrouded political circles in Egypt after Abd al-Halim Qandil, the Executive Editor-in-Chief of al-Arabi newspaper, the mouthpiece of the opposition Nasserite Party, was kidnapped, beaten and left stark naked on the Cairo-Suez desert highway on the dawn of November 2, 2004. Hundreds of public...
21. Ahmed Abdel Mot?i Hegazi claims that the Islamic conquest of Egypt was simply invasion
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 8, 2003
For three consecutive issues, Rose al-Youssef devoted a special file for comments on the Egyptian identity under a general title ?Egypt is First and Before All.? Part of the file is three interviews with poet and writer Ahmed Abdel-Mo’ti Hegazi. Among his comments on the effects of Arab nationalism...
12. The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights objects to the airing of ?Knight without a Horse?
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The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights objects to the airing of ?Knight Without a Horse.? It asks the Arab TV channels airing it to announce that the ?Protocols of the Elders of Zion? are fabricated. Some writers are against the dramatic treatment of historical facts in the series. The court of...
41. Constitutional amendments according to Nawal al-Sa‘dawi, Bishop Marqus and the Muslim Brotherhood
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 15, 2007
The spokesman of the Coptic Orthodox Church declares that the Coptic problem does not lie in article two of the Constitution, but in the manner in which this article can be applied or interpreted. Justice implies specifying Islamic Sharī‘ah as “a” main source of legislation rather than “the” main...
16. Police pushed us away from the Shurá Council’s elections, the Muslim Brotherhood says.
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 15, 2007
Egyptian security forces recently launched a massive drive against leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, since group-related students gave a military style rally in the Azhar University a few months ago [AWR, week 51, 2006, article 26]. Members of the group say that the crackdown aims at removing the...
57. St. Shenouda is the founder of the Egyptian national church
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 6, 2006
The history of Saint Shenouda’s establishment of the Egyptian national church.
40. The crescent embraces the cross
Date of source: الأحد, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 10, 2006
Jamāl Badawī stresses the importance of being aware of the danger that threatens the national unity of Egypt under the mask of international calls for justice and prosperity.
38. A recognition of His Holiness Pope Shenouda III
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 27, 2006
The author talks about his feeling in seeing the pope in good health attending President Mubarak’s speech at the People’s Assembly, and sitting side by side to the Shaykh of the Azhar, Muhammad al- Tantāwī, as an indication of “national unity.”
9. Comments on Berlusconi’s criticism of Islam
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The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told the Editor-in-Chief of Asharq al-Awsat that he was not that stupid to attack Islam and the Islamic civilization and that Islām was a great religion. Still, many articles in this week’s papers criticized his statements about the Western...

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