Egypt
- Egypt's Islamists Try To Calm Fears Over Tourism
The Telegraph, UK The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) – the political arm of the influential Muslim Brotherhood – announced a conference in Cairo entitled "Let's encourage tourism" that brought together industry leaders and party members. Meanwhile,...
- Public Outcry After Salafi Preacher’s Fatwa On Antiquities
Al Masry Al Youm A group of Egyptian citizens have filed a complaint to the office of the attorney-general demanding the cancelation of a Salafi preacher’s television program after he issued a fatwa (a religious edict) on the sale of antiquities. A...
- Egypt To Restore A Smuggled Statue From Germany
Egypt State Information Service This is one of those occasional posts on the SIS which remind one of the Service before it was revamped, when it was frequently something of a challenge to extract the story from the tangled grammar of the post. This...
- Statue Attack Fuels Fears
http://tinyurl.com/rdpbl (telegraph.co.uk)A disturbing account describing a recent attack on three statues in Cairo: "A religiously motivated attack on statues at a museum in Cairo has sparked outcry in Egypt and fuelled fears that the country is veering...
- Water Damage To Nile Monuments
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6795An article looking at dangers to Egyptian monuments - from the recent Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa fatwa to the damage caused to Luxor sites by irrigation: "The tourist industry is Egypt’s largest source...
Egypt
Statue fatwa raises concerns
http://tinyurl.com/mnbf5 (aljazeera.net)
"A fatwa issued by Egypt's religious authority forbidding the display of statues has raised fears that it could be used as an excuse to destroy the country's historical heritage. Shaikh Ali Gomaa, the Grand Mufti of Egypt and the country's most senior Islamic jurist, issued the religious edict last week. He ruled that the exhibition of statues in homes is prohibited and based his opinion on the hadith (the sayings of Prophet Muhammad). Intellectuals and artists argue that the decree represents a setback for art - a mainstay of the multi-billion-dollar tourist industry - and would damage the country's fledgling sculpture industry. Gomaa did not mention statues in museums or public places, but he condemned sculptors and their work. Still, some fear that the edict could encourage people to attack the thousands of ancient and pharaonic statues at tourist sites across Egypt."
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- Egypt's Islamists Try To Calm Fears Over Tourism
The Telegraph, UK The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) – the political arm of the influential Muslim Brotherhood – announced a conference in Cairo entitled "Let's encourage tourism" that brought together industry leaders and party members. Meanwhile,...
- Public Outcry After Salafi Preacher’s Fatwa On Antiquities
Al Masry Al Youm A group of Egyptian citizens have filed a complaint to the office of the attorney-general demanding the cancelation of a Salafi preacher’s television program after he issued a fatwa (a religious edict) on the sale of antiquities. A...
- Egypt To Restore A Smuggled Statue From Germany
Egypt State Information Service This is one of those occasional posts on the SIS which remind one of the Service before it was revamped, when it was frequently something of a challenge to extract the story from the tangled grammar of the post. This...
- Statue Attack Fuels Fears
http://tinyurl.com/rdpbl (telegraph.co.uk)A disturbing account describing a recent attack on three statues in Cairo: "A religiously motivated attack on statues at a museum in Cairo has sparked outcry in Egypt and fuelled fears that the country is veering...
- Water Damage To Nile Monuments
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6795An article looking at dangers to Egyptian monuments - from the recent Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa fatwa to the damage caused to Luxor sites by irrigation: "The tourist industry is Egypt’s largest source...