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Date of source: Thursday, June 21, 2001
The author believes that this crisis was engineered as a way for outside bodies to become involved in Egypt’s internal affairs. He questions the aims behind publishing the article and the timing. He claims it was not an attack on Copts but on the whole of Egypt and national unity.
Date of source: Thursday, June 21, 2001
The Supreme Council for the Press started a lawsuit to ban Al-Nabaa. The council condemned publication of improper photographs and threatening society’s values. Some council members expressed their conviction that freedom of the press must be responsible. Mamdouh Mahran testified that he was the...
Date of source: Saturday, May 19, 2001 to Friday, May 25, 2001
The author is of the opinion that Brotherhood is like a magician playing card tricks with legitimacy: democracy slogans in elections, planning conspiracies against it in secret, using the media to build Brotherhood hierarchies to spread their ideas and manipulating people’s minds and beliefs.
Date of source: Sunday, May 6, 2001
The Maglis El-Milli asked six of its members to conduct a study on sectarian strife incidents and report back to the political establishment. The study was titled "The Coptic issue in Egypt." It reported about the Hamayouni Edict, the Coptic presence in representational councils and assignment to...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 2, 2001
The Education Minister declared in the Shura Council that extremists controlled 90% of educational institutions in Egypt. He prevented 3,000 teachers from teaching, believing that they taught students extremist ideas. He said that security forces found long-term plans prepared by extremist...
Date of source: Sunday, April 29, 2001
The Muslim Brotherhood Group said that its candidates for the Shura Council elections were exposed to security contraventions to stop their attempts to join the next council elections. The group confirmed that the police excluded seven of its members from applying for the elections.
Date of source: Sunday, April 22, 2001
A heated debate took place between the chairman of the Egyptian Parliament and the Muslim Brotherhood MPs, who criticized the detention of three of the group’s members. They said that what happened [detention] was a conspiracy that aimed at making it too late for the Brotherhood to submit the...
Date of source: Sunday, April 22, 2001
Essam Al-Erain expressed his hope that the authorities detention of two of the group’s members after they submitted their papers to run in the Shura Council elections, was an isolated incident that did not represent a general attitude aimed at preventing the Brotherhood from participating in the...
Date of source: Thursday, February 22, 2001
Public opinion’s reaction towards the ruling given in Al-Kosheh action was inconsistent. Those who have a legal background understood the recitals and the reasons of the sentences, but the public, who have no legal background, were deeply shocked by them. The sentences passed have two aspects; the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 4, 2001
Several wings within the Brotherhood are looking to fill the position of the general guide after Mustafa Mashhour. Some outsiders think succession in the Brotherhood is a result of conflict between the elders and the middle generation. Others claim that it is a power struggle between the "secret"...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.