Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 2004
Dr. Rifa'at Al-Sa'id, the head of the Tagammu Party, stressed that many reasons led to the exclusion of the Brotherhood from the dialogue among opposition parties.
Al-Sa'id noted that participants in the meetings of opposition parties unanimously rejected the creation of a political party that...
Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 2004
The controversial question of whether the Brotherhood should be included in the [national] dialogue is now being debated, especially after the ruling [National Democratic] Party has brought up again the idea of national dialogue. Will this national dialogue be exclusive to opposition parties or it...
Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 2004
Dr. Muhammad Habib, the first deputy of the Brotherhood Supreme Guide, accused the National Democratic Party of being behind the exclusion of the Brotherhood from the opposition bloc. Habib refused to speak critically of Dr. Rifa'at Al-Sa'id, the head of the Tagammu Party in order not to terminate...
Date of source: Monday, September 13, 2004
The inclusion of movements of political in the process of democratization is one of the main points of discussion on issues of reform in the Arab world, especially as the political discourse reluctant to start political reform linked between democratization and the possibility of peaceful Islamic...
Date of source: Monday, August 30, 2004
On August 30, “Al Manar Al Gadeed” magazine published an article written by Aboud Al-Zomor about reform in Egypt. The article is particularly significant because Al-Zomor was a main participant in the assassination of [former president] Anwar Al-Sadat. Al-Zomor’s article differs from what the Gama’...
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 2004
This is the time of year when Pope Shenouda III pays a visit to the Coptic community in the US. All Egyptians await his visit because he is not only the head of the Coptic Church but is also an Egyptian symbol. Subjects discussed in the following interviews include: problems of expatriate Copts,...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 2004
The literature and the slogans of the Brotherhood imply their hostility towards democracy. But today the highest Brotherhood juristic reference Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi announced a new interpretation that can be summed up in Al-Qaradawi’s words “democracy is the spirit of Islam.” Al-Qaradawi’s...
Date of source: Saturday, June 11, 2005
Peoples in Egypt look forward to change, having better standards of living and searching for a favorable political future and more effective participation, and that is why the political system is supposed to have absorbed this legitimate wish on the part of the masses.
Date of source: Saturday, June 11, 2005
The tax law was just the first step in the new stage which President Husnī Mubārak simply, but expressively, named the "third generation of economic reform," and this in turn means that we have already started to have the "sweet harvest" of reform despite all malicious attempts of distortion.
Date of source: Sunday, June 5, 2005
AUC students held a seminar discussing Christian worries and citizenship in Egypt. Both Sāmih Fawzī, a journalist, and Dr. Diyā’ Rashwān, Head of Political Systems Unit at the Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, participated in the seminar.