Cairo,
20 February 2004 --
The
Al-Ahram Weekly yesterday published an article by the name “More
than a building”, which reviews the story of the controversy of
“the Protocols of the Elders of Zion” noting the remarkable
and happy ending to this sad tale, which showed that the Library was in
its short existence (barely a year old, inaugurated in October 2002) had
become the key focal point that rallied many voices of tolerance and rationality
in Egypt. Indeed, with 500 of them signing a declaration of support, the
extremist currents that have so often intimidated such voices in the past,
seemed to be having less deterrent effect on the progressive forces in
Egypt. The whole article is worth reading, and it is herewith reproduced
in Full
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