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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...
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...
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...
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...
[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...
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 [...
[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...
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...
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...
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 "...
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...
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...
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...
[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...
[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,...
The new NGO law may have stolen the lion’s share of the public’s attention over the last few months, but the Ministry of Social Affairs has not been letting its other activities lie fallow. High on their agenda is the strengthening of relationships with other partners, and especially the business...
The dispute over the new Associations Law has drawn lots of attention and while it was approved by a parliament majority, the majority of the Egyptian public disapproved of it. This is not merely an impression but an observation gleaned from empirical evidence in Egyptian public life. It is worth...
In an attempt to restore the Amr Ibn Al-As Mosque to its original state, the Culture Ministry signed a restoration contract this week with the public sector Nile Valley Company. Signing on behalf of the ministry were Culture Minister Farouk Hosni and Gaballa Ali Gaballa, secretary-general of the...
Cairo governorate this week celebrated the passage of 1,400 years of Islam in Egypt. The celebration was held in Amr Ibn Al As mosque amidst 10,000 worshippers participating in the ceremony. The Cairo Youth and Sports Institute organized a religious contest for children as part of the ceremonies....
KUWAIT CITY - The sweeping of Kuwait’s parliamentary polls on July 3 might bode well for women’s suffrage, but it also raises the prospects of a new showdown between MPs and the emir’s government. The result was "a crushing defeat for the government," said the English-language Arab Times, while...

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