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25. Muslim endowments stand-off. Al-Azhar calls for the return of its confiscated land by the Ministry of Awqaf
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999 to Monday, August 2, 1999
Good news for the Orthodox Church should also be good news for the nation’s leading Islamic institution. After Pope Shenouda announced at a press conference on 23 June that the government had handed over 780 feddans of Coptic religious-endowment (awqaf) land, Al-Azhar asked the government to...
21. 14 Days
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
Hundreds of women from around the world attended the 18 July opening in Cairo of the YWCA (Young Women Christian Association) World Council.
18. Alleged Bin Laden associates held in London. Two Egyptians detained by a British court in connection with last year’s US embassy bombings face an American extradition request
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999 to Monday, August 2, 1999
Egypt has finally got what it wanted - almost. For years, the government has been calling on Britain to hand over Egyptian nationals wanted for terrorism-related activities. Now it appears that two London-based Egyptian fundamentalists may be extradited, but to the U.S. rather than Egypt.
14. 14 Days
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
A high state security court [in Egypt] on 12 July began to try 14 alleged members of the Gamaa Islamiya. And, eleven alleged Muslim Brothers have been arrested for possession of anti-government leaflets and organizing meetings to lure new members.
40. Government checks rights groups. Minister of Social Affairs Mervat Tellawi leads the counteroffensive against the opposition to Law 153
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 1999
A government counterattack has thrown the three-week old campaign against the new Law 153 for Associations and Civil Institutions into disarray. Social affairs minister Mervat Tellawi has led a public relations campaign to deflect international criticism of law, which aims to keep a check on the...
43. Aid and salvation
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
The article describes Christian and Muslim missionary activities in the Kosovar refugee camps in Bosnia.
17. Montaza sentences lenient, defense says. For the first time, a Gamaa Islamiya trial has ended with no one condemned to death
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
Unlike previous sentences no member of the Gama’at al-Islamiya has been sentenced to death. This is perhaps related to the Gama’at’s denouncement of the use of violence and their stop on violent activities since last year.
21. Loyal militant opposition
Date of source: Thursday, June 24, 1999 to Wednesday, July 7, 1999
The military courtrooms in Hike Step have seen a lot of strange things. One of the more bizarre spectacles, however, occurred on 17 June when the verdicts in the latest case against the Gamaa Islamiya - the Montaza Palace trial - came down. Leading defendant Ahmed Al Sheikh, who’d just been...
22. A literature quiz for AUC
Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
The column mentions a number of titles that have been banned by the censor because they have been identified as works being "dangerous to the morals of the Egyptian public.
20. Government checks rights groups: Minister of Social Affairs Mervat Tellawi leads the counteroffensive against the opposition to Law 153
Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 1999 to Wednesday, June 23, 1999
A government counterattack has thrown the three-week old campaign against the new Law 153 for Associations and Civil Institutions into disarray. Social affairs minister Mervat Tellawi has led a public relations campaign to deflect international criticism of the law, which aims to keep a check on...

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