Date of source: Monday, January 22, 2007
The declaration to establish the Muslim Brotherhood party has triggered a big reaction in the media. Some consider the move to be a political maneuver, due to the dilemma the Brotherhood passed through after students connected to it held a parade at the Azhar University. Others saw it as a step...
Date of source: Friday, January 5, 2007
A national center for translation is established by a presidential decree.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Hilmī al-Nimnim answers
October’s rumor
about the Azhar preventing a book from being published.
Date of source:
Saad Eddin
Ibrahim’s lawyer presented a demand to release Saad Eddin for
health reasons. Lawyers and intellectuals are also
considering making a request to President Mubarak to
stay the execution of the prison sentence. Officials
demonstrated a positive sign to easing the crisis when
they...
Date of source: Friday, November 10, 2006
Prominent poet and thinker Adūnīs
gave a lecture at the
Bibliotheca Alexandrina on a new ideological perspective of his book entitled,
‘Al-Thābit wa-al-Mutahawwi’ [The
Constant and the Variable], published in Beirut in 1972.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 2, 2006
The author reviews a document purportedly sent by
Hasan al-Bannā, the founder and murshid of the Muslim Brotherhood, to the 1944 Arab conference in
which he demanded pan-Arab political, economic and military cooperation.
Date of source: Sunday, June 25, 2006
The honor and shame culture is examined in discussion of the insult of raising a shoe towards an opponent and it is argued that the government must take real action in the face of such behavior.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The
author presents a meeting between Ahmad ‘Abd al-
Mu‘ti Hijāzī a famous Egyptian
poet and the muftī in which Hijāzī
talked about the relationship between scholars,
extremism and terrorism. The muftī boasted that
all those who proved to be extremists or terrorists
were not graduates of...
Date of source: Friday, July 25, 2003
The article covers the recent visit of Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid to Egypt, the first since he left Egypt eight years ago.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 22, 2006
The press review tackles the controversy sparked during a symposium convened to discuss the Coptic heritage encyclopedia, issued by the Yuhannā al-Habīb publishing house.