La presidenza egiziana è stata molto veloce a scegliere il successore di sheykh Mohammed Sayyed al Tantawi, dopo la sua morte inattesa, alla testa di Al Azhar, il centro teologico più importante per l’islam sunnita. E’ Ahmed al Tayeb, che è stato rettore dell’università dal 2003 (lo avevo intervistato poco prima di lasciare il Cairo).

Su Al Ahram Weekly i primi giudizi, di Gihan Shahine. Concentrati sul fatto che il grand imam di Al Azhar è di stretta nomina presidenziale, come aveva voluto Gamal Abdel Nasser per evitare che si trasformasse in un luogo di opposizione.

Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb, who has served as president of Al-Azhar University since 2003, has been appointed as Al-Azhar’s top cleric by presidential decree. The appointment of the French- educated scholar, who was also Egypt’s mufti until September 2003, has provoked mixed reactions. Whereas some have welcomed him as an enlightened scholar with a philosophical background that will allow him to improve the image of Al-Azhar, critics are nevertheless apprehensive about El-Tayeb’s affiliation with the government as a member of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) and his commitment to Sufism.

Many are concerned about El-Tayeb’s tough stance against the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition group, which remains officially outlawed despite popular support.
For his part, El-Tayeb has been appearing throughout the Egyptian media since his appointment, promising that Al-Azhar will work to regain its former role of uniting Muslims worldwide, and he has dismissed allegations of pressures on Al-Azhar to toe the government line.

Humorous writing which has in these recent, commercialised years made the best-seller list as often as anything else may have been a step on the way to the true liberation of the Jokers that Halssism proposes, their prevalence and their ultimate, scientifically ordained triumph. But it is not the same as Halss in that it holds onto various aspects of the real and the moral the presence of which will hamper and potentially kill the transformation now besetting our world. Revolution is indeed afoot, in order once and for all to bring down Revolution.



JOKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!

Scelta strategica, a quanto sembra. Il comitato centrale di Fatah ha deciso di utilizzare la resistenza nonviolenta contro Israele. E a comunicarlo ai giornalisti è stato il principe dei negoziatori palestinesi, Nabil Sha’ath

Fatah commissioner for international relations Nabil Sha’ath spoke to reporters following the Central Committee meeting, telling them that the best answer to the Israeli occupation was non-violent resistance. As such, he added, efforts to resist the occupation will be supported by Fatah.

During the news conference Sha’ath was flanked by fellow Fatah Central Committee members Muhammad Dahlan, Jibril Rajoub, Hussein Ash-Sheikh, and Mahmoud Al-Aloul.
Sha’ath promised that Fatah would play a major role in leading popular non-violent resistance efforts, noting pas support in Bil’in, Ni’lin, AL-Ma’asara, Bethlehem and Ramallah, adding that “We will be seen in all sites where popular resistance is organized. This is part of the movement’s program ratified during the sixth congress held in Bethlehem,” he added.
With the insistence of demonstrators, Sha’ath said, “Occupied Jerusalem has become the center of a political battle where the whole world is leaning against Israel,” citing the decisions taken during the Arab League’s summit in Libya to support the Palestinian capital, but calling them insufficient to protect the city.

Amr el Shobaki firma sul quotidiano egiziano al Masri al Youm una difesa di sheykh Youssef al Qaradawi, ma soprattutto dei giornalisti di Islamonline. E attacca il Qatar.

Non è solo la difesa di un sito web che sta cambiando direzione. E’ la palese dimostrazione che internet, nel mondo arabo, conta eccome. Molto più che in Europa. E di questo se ne sono accorte anche le autorità.

E’ ancora ai primi vagiti, ma Filomena – La Rete delle Donne ha già il suo blog. Oltre ad aver avuto il 27 marzo scorso a Roma la sua prima giornata nazionale, bella e intensa. Per alcuni versi sorprendente.

Lavori in corso, per la rinascita di una cultura femminile in Italia. E a giudicare dagli ultimi giorni, ve n’è bisogno.