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Legality of Interest Payments Questioned in Egyptian Peoples Assembly

The first sessions of the newly elected People's Assembly in Egypt, held during the first week of May, witnessed a heated debate between the new Islamic opposition group and other members on the subject of the legality of paying interest on bank loans. The Assembly was debating the approval of a number of foreign credits when an Islamic deputy, Shaikh Yusif al-Badri,...