Date of source: Monday, August 23, 2004
America is interfering in the affairs of others with all possible
means. The latest attempt was the visit of a fact-finding delegation of the US Commission on
International Religious Freedom to Egypt. The US delegation was comprised of nine commissioners,
including its Jewish head. Four of the...
Date of source: Saturday, August 21, 2004 to Saturday, August 28, 2004
The Islamic Research Institute issued
a decision to ban the book “The responsibility for the failure of the Islamic State in the modern
era,” written by Gamal Al-Banna. The book was published ten years ago but was recently sent by
the police station of Kafr Al-Sheikh to the institute to review...
Date of source: Sunday, August 22, 2004
A book
written by Gamal Al-Banna, the brother of Hassan Al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, was
banned. The book is titled Mas’ouleyit fashal al-dawla al-Islamiya fil asr Al-hadith [The
responsibility for the failure of the Islamic State in the modern era]. The book discusses the
issue...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 6, 2004
Some trends have intentionally sought to stoke the fire by depicting the Azhar as an
institution that aims to impede creativity and stifle freedom and artists. Real artists and
intellectuals are not those who are after fame, power and money to the detriment of principles
and values. There are...
Date of source: Friday, July 2, 2004
Investigations are underway by the censorship authorities
concerning the copies of Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s “Fall of the Imam” that were leaked to the
Egyptian market, although the authorities had confiscated copies of the novel on December 13,
2000. The confiscation of the novel has caused...
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 2004
This is not the
first time I go through the harship of takfir [being accused of unbelief]. I read in a newspaper
on June 25 that they received news from the Azhar saying that my book “Shukran Bin Laden” [thank
you Bin Laden] was confiscated and banned from circulation. Are our masters the...
Date of source: Thursday, June 3, 2004
Last week, the catastrophe of the confiscation of books appeared on the surface again
as two books were accused of offending religion. The book of “Shukran Bin Laden” [Thank you Bin
Laden] by Sayyed Al-Qimni was recommended to be banned by the Islamic Research Institute. The
other book “Tahya Al...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 1, 2004
The fate of the book
“Mas’ouleyit fashal al-dawla al-Islamiya fil asr Al-hadith”[The responsibility of the failure of
the Islamic State in the contemporary era] written by Gamal Al-Banna is still unclear. Al-Banna
confirmed that the Islamic Research Institute has banned his book while the Azhar...
Date of source: Monday, September 13, 2004
The Ibn Khaldoun Center opened its doors for the thinker Gamal Al-Banna, the author of the
book Mas’ouleyit fashal al-dawla al-Islamiya fil asr Al-hadith [The responsibility of the failure
of the Islamic State in the modern era], whose banning was recommended by the Islamic Research
Institute....
Date of source: Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Many literal works that were recommended to be
banned by the Islamic Research Institute, like “Waleemat A’shab Al-Bahr” [Banquet of seaweeds] by
Haidar Haidar, and most recently Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s “Soqout Al-Imam [the Fall of the Imam], are
humble and modest texts from a literary point-of-view...