Date of source: Sunday, April 16, 2006
This article traces the rounds of the conflict between political Islam and the West, the possibilities for leadership of the Islamic world and possible future scenarios, including the victory of Islam, the revival of the Islamic caliphate or the decline and collapse of the Islamic world.
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006
Analysis of the Denmark cartoons issue by Dr. Hasan Muhammad Wajīh, expert of linguistics of negotiation and cross-cultural communication at the Azhar University and moderator of the April 15, 2006 discussion at El-Sawy Culture Wheel on ‘Freedom of expression and respect for the other. How to...
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006
The speech of Sir Derek Plumbly, British ambassador to Egypt, on ’Freedom of expression and respect for the other. How to respond if one is offended.’
Date of source: Friday, April 7, 2006
Despite having been banned by the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy, Natana J. Delong-Bas’s ‘Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global
Jihad’ has received massive support from the Saudi government. Hanān Sulaymān provides a book review.
Date of source: Sunday, April 9, 2006
Majdī Khalīl describes
Assiut as a brave city which has managed to triumph over the forces of evil.
Date of source: Saturday, April 8, 2006 to Friday, April 14, 2006
Talāl al-Ansārī, the second defendant in the so-called al-Fanīya
al-‘Askarīya [Armed Forces Technical College] case of the 1974 abortive coup, continues
publishes his diary in episodes in Rose al-Yousuf magazine.
Date of source: Sunday, April 9, 2006
The author
says he interviewed the Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide, Mahdī ‘Ākif, in his
Irshād [Guidance] office a few days ahead of the last parliamentary elections, but the interview it
was not published in full at the newspaper for which he used to work.
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2001 to Friday, November 16, 2001
The Head of the Department of Transport and Bridges Equipment in Cairo was arrested together with his wife for forming a group promoting ideas against Islam. He issued a fatwa to his followers that they were not obliged to pray in the direction of the Kiblah while performing prayers. He also denied...
Date of source: Sunday, November 4, 2001
An Egyptian living in America sent the author a message
saying that Americans are among the kindest peoples in the world and that he felt very safe in America. He added
that there was bitter hostility in Egypt towards the West and America, although America liberated Kuwait and fought
against...
Date of source: Monday, November 5, 2001
The West shares responsibility for reviving the religious trend in the Arabic region in the 1990s and for
the religious groups’ resorting to violence as a means of expressing themselves. What is meant is not the indirect
responsibility of the American policy, which is prejudiced towards Israel...