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7. Shifting fortunes for the front of scholars
Date of source: 24 Jun 1999 to 30 Jun 1999
By Munā al-Naḥhas
In a fresh development in the continuing battle of the Front of Azhar scholars, a report by the State Commissioners Authority has come out in favor of its dissolution, which was decided last year by Cairo Governor Abdel-Rehim Shehata. The Authority will submit its report to the Supreme...
12. Egypt conceals displeasure over Islambouli painting
Date of source: 24 Jun 1999 to 30 Jun 1999
By Simon Apiku
Egypt has reacted mildly to an attempt by hard-liners in Iran to derail efforts aimed at improving relations between Cairo and Tehran. Iranians opposed to their government’s policy of mending fences with Egypt, unveiled on June 18 a mural in honor of Khaled Islambouli, the assassin of late...
16. Score of Islamist commandos off to jail
Date of source: 24 Jun 1999 to 30 Jun 1999
By Middle East Times Staff
Twenty-one suspected Islamic militants chanted "There is no god but God" and "we stand up for Islam," when they heard the military judge presiding over their case read out the verdicts on June 17. Four defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor, seven others received 15 years...
17. Montaza sentences lenient, defense says. For the first time, a Gamaa Islamiya trial has ended with no one condemned to death
Date of source: 24 Jun 1999 to 7 Jul 1999
By Cairo Times
The military courtrooms in Hike Step have seen a lot of strange things. One of the more bizarre spectacles, however, occurred on 17 June when the verdicts in the latest case against the Gamaa Islamiya--the Montaza Palace trial--came down. Leading defendant Ahmed Al Sheikh, who’d just been sentenced...
18. ’Lenient’ sentences by military court
Date of source: 24 Jun 1999 to 30 Jun 1999
By Khaled Dawoud
The Supreme Military Court wrote the final chapter last Thursday in a mysterious saga involving suspected members of the country’s largest militant organization, Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya. Twenty-one defendants had been charged with planning to revive the group’s activities in the Mediterranean city of...
19. Jihad leader faces US charges
Date of source: 24 Jun 1999 to 30 Jun 1999
By Jaylān Hallāwī
The US has officially charged Ayman El-Zawahri, leader of the underground Jihad group, and his aide, Khaled El-Fawwaz, with involvement in the twin bombings of its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania last August. El-Zawahri is believed to reside in Afghanistan while El-Fawwaz is under arrest in Britain...
36. Escaping social control in Egypt dubbed kidnapping in US
Date of source: 24 Jun 1999 to 30 Jun 1999
By Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
President Hosni Mubarak is traveling to the United States on Saturday. As in previous years, presidential visits are always great opportunities for American lobbyists to present their specific interests. In the past few months, American Copts, evangelical groups and the conservative Freedom House...
1. Editorial
Date of source: 12 Jun 2006
By Cornelis Hulsman (كورنيلس هولسمان)
AWR would like to offer its sincere condolences on the death of Father Matta al-Maskīn who passed away on Thursday June 8, 2006. Father Matta, who was born in 1919, was the spiritual father of the Monastery of St. Macarius, but was also a great Christian spiritual figure who inspired many and whose...
2. Haram and halal elastic concepts used by the corrupt to crush any democracy-demanding movement
Date of source: 5 Apr 2006
By Nabīl ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ
The structure of exceptional laws, including the emergency law, grants the ruling elite semi-absolute powers, doing away with all the principles that form a legally-based state, leading to the imposition of restrictions on creativity and the press and the birth of a terrorist environment in the...
3. When Muslims agree with the world?
Date of source: 9 Apr 2006
By Aḥmad al-Baghdādī
[Editor: This article generalizes about Muslims and about Christians. The death penalty for apostates from Islam is carried out in some countries, but certainly not all. In Egypt, for example, no-one has been executed for leaving Islam for many decades. Furthermore, Christians leaving...
4. The Document of Religious Rights: A fireball in the face of Shaykh al-Zifzaf
Date of source: 10 Apr 2006
By Zaynab 'Abd Allah
A few days ago, some Egyptian newspapers headlines read: ‘The Azhar signs an international religious rights document allowing Christian missionary work in Egypt,’ Zaynab ‘Abd Allāh writes. The news said that this document was signed by the Azhar with visiting U.S. Christian clerics in April 2005 [...
5. Comment of Shaykh al-Zifzaf on the ‘Document of Religious Rights’
Date of source: 30 Jul 2005
By Fawzī Fāḍil al-Zifzāf
[Editor: This article was sent in July 2005, but was not published in AWR. Since the issue has again come to the news, we decided to add Shaykh al-Zifzāf’s comment.]Permanent Committee of Al-Azhar for Dialogue with the Monotheistic ReligionsDear Dr. Cornelis Hulsman,I have received your letter...
43. Aid and salvation
Date of source: 24 Jun 1999 to 7 Jul 1999
By Lura Peterson
Muslim and Christian missionaries are competing for the souls of refugee Kosovars in Bosnia. Each day, cars and trucks pull up in the dust outside the Rakovica refugee camp near Sarajevo, unloading clothes, food or toys for the hundreds of Kosovar Albanian refugees that crowd around, grabbing...
52. Egypt in the Holy Bible
Date of source: 25 Jun 1999
By Taqlā (Bishop)
Yesterday the Orthodox Coptic Church was celebrating an important occasion, the commemoration of the arrival of the remains of the great Saint Marcus from Rome. Tomorrow, the church will celebrate putting the remains in the Cathedral. As Egyptians, we ought to be very happy and proud because such...
1. Islamic conference urges greater cooperation
Date of source: 1 Jul 1999 to 7 Jul 1999
By Munā al-Naḥhas
Delegations representing 75 Islamic countries and six international Islamic organizations passed recommendations urging greater inter-Islamic cooperation at the conclusion of a four-day conference last Friday [June 25, 1999]. The 11th Cairo International Islamic Conference met under the title "...
10. Bouteflika bent on peace
Date of source: 1 Jul 1999 to 7 Jul 1999
By No Author Mentioned
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seeking broad support for a peace accord with rebels to try to end seven years of violence. He will organize a referendum on the deal in July and has pledged to quit if the bill does not survive the plebiscite, well-placed sources told Algeria’s daily La...
11. Fast peace to cure Algeria’s social ills
Date of source: 1 Jul 1999 to 7 Jul 1999
By Abū Bakr al-Qāḍī
Algeria’s new President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has just announced plans to pardon thousands of pro-Islamist prisoners, looks determined to restore peace in order to tackle major social issues. An end to the killing - as press here reported five more deaths including that of a man whose head was...
12. GIA threatens Belgian "bloodbath"
Date of source: 1 Jul 1999 to 7 Jul 1999
By No Author Mentioned
Hardline militants of Algeria’s Armed Islamic Group (GIA) threatened on June 27 to create a "bloodbath" in Belgium if the authorities there do not release several of its leaders jailed last month. "The GIA gives Belgium 20 days to reverse its actions against the Mujahideen - it must stop its...
13. How can we restore our confidence in the University?
Date of source: 1 Jul 1999 to 7 Jul 1999
By Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Muʿṭī Ḥijāzī (Dr.)
[The following article also appeared in Al-Ahram, June 16, 1999] The Egyptian press has for years revealed the corruption taking place in universities and criticized officials for not taking a positive action towards this dangerous phenomenon. The corruption is not limited to students but has...
20. Talking strategy
Date of source: 1 Jul 1999 to 7 Jul 1999
By Nivin Khalil
[Only the excerpts from the article directly pertaining to the RNSAW service are given below] Through the US-Egyptian strategic dialogue, which was launched in July 1998, Cairo and Washington sought to make sure that their viewpoints were projected clearly and quickly whenever any bilateral,...

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