Egyptians have been clearly dismayed by the retrial of toppled president Hosni Mubarak and his release order recently issued by the Criminal Court after he spent two years in detention without receiving a final verdict.
Though public prosecution (...)
IN a conservative society such as that of Egypt, there is always high concern at having a high number of unmarried young women without giving same interest if the problem touches also young men.
When the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and (...)
ONE of the many misconceptions that non-Muslims have acquired about Islam is the claim of discrimination against women. This opinion much of the world has formed about Islam's stand on woman is not actually driven by specific Qur'anic verses or the (...)
IT is true that humankind enjoys many privileges over all other creatures and that Allah, the Almighty subjected many creatures for their service such as some animals to use for riding or for eating. Nevertheless, human beings are still requested to (...)
IT must be very annoying for someone who's just been knocked down and almost run over by someone to hear the word ‘Maalish' being uttered by the offending motorist, rather than his expressing his deep sorrow and contrition for his unjustified (...)
LAUNCHING a debate between The Egyptian Gazette and its respected readers on different cultural and religious issues that sometimes cause misconceptions is only meant to help foreign readers understand the Egyptians' culture and personality and to (...)
CULTURAL differences sometimes bring some misunderstandings between peoples of different races and nationalities. However, direct contacts and communication between members of different societies brings understanding and even friendship between the (...)
CAIRO - Egypt's Al-Azhar, the world's most prominent seat of Sunni Islam, indefinitely suspended an inter-faith dialogue with the Vatican in response to Pope Benedict XVI's repeated criticism of Islam and the condition of Copts in Egypt.
"The (...)
Addressing the subject of Hindu-Muslim relations would be incomplete without touching on the conflict over the places of worship that began to escalate in India in 1992, and ended with the demolition of the Babri Mosque in the city of Ayodhya in (...)
INDIA is known worldwide as the land of wonders, the biggest democracy in Asia and even the world, and as a model of plurality.
Some people have built their knowledge about India on Bollywood movies, English literature and novels such as E.M. (...)
CAIRO- Egypt's Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar Ahmed el-Tayyeb on Thursday rejected the idea of travelling to the Israeli-occupied Muslim holy city of Jerusalem through obtaining an Israeli visa, after a declaration by Egyptian Minister of Religious (...)
THE Times was the first international newspaper to report on Israel's use of white phosphorous against the Palestinians in its Gaza incursion last year. However, the British newspaper last week published a shameful editorial praising the state of (...)