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5. Framing Islam
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
"Since you cannot convey reality precisely, since in the last resort there is no precise reality to convey, why worry? All that is expected of you is a good story, so let them have it. Truth? What is truth?" writes Edward Mortimer in "Islam and the Western journalist." And thus the Western press...
1. The sacred in a secular age
Date of source: Thursday, January 7, 1999
Interview with Prof. John Keane, director of the Center of the Study of Democracy and professor of politics at the University of Westminster, England on the subject of secularism and Islam.
1. A government of God?
Date of source: Wednesday, December 30, 1998
Did the Islamist project fail or does it continue to form a government in waiting? Interview with the Tunisian sheikh Rashed Al-Ghenoushi (57) who lives in exile in London.
11. Copts slam Wolf’s "crusade"
Date of source: Saturday, August 1, 1998
Marlyn Tadros, a Coptic human rights activist, argues with Frank Wolf over his insistence on interfering in Coptic affairs.
8. Police officer in trouble over diary
Date of source: Thursday, July 23, 1998
Brigadier-General Hamdi El-Batran will probably lose his job because of a novel he published that was based on his experience in the force.
11. Coptic church regains Waqf lands
Date of source: Thursday, May 14, 1998
Coptic land that was confiscated by the government in 1971 is finally returned to the church (see the previous issue)
13. Police unfazed by Minya attacks
Date of source: Thursday, March 26, 1998
For the first time after the Luxor attack on November 17, 1997, Islamist militants went on the offensive again. They attacked in Beni-Mazaar, near Minia, a police car carrying four policemen, including Lt. Col. Alaa Qandil, and killed them. Two civilians, who happened to be on the spot, were...
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