Minister of Education Jamāl al-'Arabī denied that the ministry would grant licenses to build "Islamic schools," denying that there will be no schools built on religious basis. "The owners of those types of schools lend the name 'Islamic' to their educational establishments but the curricula inside schools nationwide subject to and supervised by the education ministry are the same," said 'Arabī during a press conference on December 26. [Sāmī Fahmī, Al-Ahālī, Dec. 28, p. 3] Read the original text in Arabic