Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
Has President
Mubarak’s call to renew religious thought been seriously tackled on all levels of the ruling
party and the government-owned media or not? Al-Liwaa’ Al-Islami, owned by the ruling National
Democratic Party, continued its attack on secularists on the pretext that secularists are...
Date of source: Thursday, December 9, 2004
Dr. Nawal Al-Saadawi, the famous Egyptian controversial writer, declared her intention to run for the next presidential election in October, to be the first ever female candidate.
Date of source: Saturday, April 9, 2005
The issue of demonstrations was not on the
agenda of the four-day National Democratic Party (NDP)’s 4th session that included representatives of 15 parties. The meeting
saw a split as some parties were of the opinion that demonstrations give the impression of unrest and embolden foreign...
Date of source: Saturday, April 9, 2005
Immediately after the president announced
democracy, all legitimate parties and illegitimate organizations stampeded on the streets screaming for more democracy and
doors opened wide to constitutional changes in just a very limited time that does not allow the time to study all the things...
Date of source: Thursday, March 24, 2005
Before the opening of the Forth General Conference of Journalists in 2004, President Husnī Mubārak had declared his historical initiative of canceling imprisonment for publishing [or journalism] related crimes. Journalists are extremely worried because the status quo remains even after a year...
Date of source: Thursday, March 31, 2005
Khālid al-Za‘farānī, a former member of the Brotherhood and secretary general of the frozen Labor Party, announced the establishment of a new party under the name Hizb al-Islāh wa al-‘Adāla wa al-Tanmīya [Reform, Justice and Development, and said would go through the paper work for his party soon...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 9, 2005
A delegation from the US Embassy in Cairo recently paid a visit to the Upper Egyptian city. First Secretary Ian McCary said in a number of statements to reporters that he supports the recent wave of protests in Egypt. He said that he calls for more freedom for the Copts and church building, noting...
Date of source: Thursday, March 3, 2005
The political, social and intellectual emancipation of women is a prerequisite for any serious comprehensive political reform that would develop our own nation.
Date of source: Thursday, March 3, 2005
I am not at ease about the “stalwart support” of the People’s Assembly and Shura Council for the historical decision of President Husnī Mubārak to have direct presidential elections instead of those referendums that made Egypt a paradigm of the 99,999% syndrome during Nasser’s time!
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2005
Frustration has set in. In the Egypt of today, the political arena has stagnated, and all hope of constitutional reform that would lead to the long- awaited political change has gone to the wind.