A total of 1400 applicants have been excluded from candidacy in the parliamentary elections, mainly due to their failure to complete their military service.
Muhammad Fatouh argues that money has tempted hijāb-wearing actresses back to the television screen, even though, 20 years ago, they considered acting harām [forbidden by Islam].
Ahmad Shawqī al-Fanjarī argues that the application of the hudoud [Islamic penal code] must be proceeded by social reform, and that its application has only led to great suffering.
It is suggested that highly influential dā‘iya, cAmr Khālid is promoting a type of Islam that is acceptable to the United States, appeasing angry youth during the invasion of Iraq, thereby serving US interests in the area.
The Council of Scientific Research at the Azhar University recommended a few
days ago that Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s novel “Soqout Al-Imam” [The Fall of the Imam] be banned after
being released in Cairo seventeen years ago. The imam [in the novel] served as the central
symbol representing...
Ibrahim Nafi’ explains the mission of Arabs Against Discrimination organization. It is
the first Arab independent non-governmental organization whose objective is to counter the tyrant
campaign against Arabs and Muslims. The organization consists of Arab and Egyptian academicians
and...
The author sheds light upon the importance of human relations with regards to the
Palestinian resistance and the Palestinian people, stressing the psychological suffering that the
Palestinian families go through when they lose loved ones because of suicide operations [with
comments].
The Sheikh of the Azhar confirmed that the Palestinian fedaye [self-
sacrificing] operations are martyrdom operations [the person who carry such operations is
considered a martyr], whether carried out by males or females. He said that women could
accomplish these operations even without...