Date of source: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Strict Islam infected restaurants and cafés after demands to allow beard growing were raised inside the army, interior ministry and judiciary. [Rānyā Nabīl, al-Ahālī, Feb. 29, p. 3] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Forty-three persons, including nine Americans outside Egypt, were referred to the Cairo Criminal Court on charges of involvement in illegal foreign funding, according to investigations. [‘Imād al-Fiqī and Muhammad Hijāb, al-Ahrām, Feb. 7, p. 3] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Saturday, November 19, 2011
On November 28, the first round of the elections for Egypt's parliament (the People's Assembly or Majlis Al-Sha'b), start in Egypt. The Egyptian parliament will consist of 498 members.
Of these, a third of the seats (166 members) are elected by absolute majority vote in their own electoral district...
Date of source: Friday, October 1, 2010
Coptic activist Boulos Ramzī found himself protesting alone outside the Supreme Court against Bishop Bīshūy's statements regarding the Qur'ān. Ramzī claims many Protestants would have attended the protest if it weren't for Pope Shenouda’s orders. Reverend Rif<sup>c</sup>at Fikrī denied...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
El-Awa denied the allegations attributed to him in the media against the church. He says anyone attacking him for comments made in the interview with Al-Jazeera has not seen the original interview and that he chose his words carefully while talking about the Church. He added that Israel is behind...
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 2010
Joseph Botros Athnasious Botros Al-Gabalawy is being held in custody with charges of smuggling weapons in from Israel to be hidden in churches. Investigations concluded last August 11th, however, showed that the shipment did not contain weapons, but fireworks that came in from China and not Israel...
Date of source: Sunday, July 5, 2009
The author writes about the frustration people feel at officially imposed changes of the street and place names with which they are familiar.
Date of source: Sunday, June 15, 2008
Watani interviewed a Christian woman who received an MA in education from Ayn Shams university and is now a teaching fellow in the Arabic department at the university.
Date of source: Sunday, February 3, 2008
The article looks at two recent Administrative Court rulings. One which allows Bahā’īs to either leave the religion box in their ID cards empty or just have a dash and the other ruling stopped Muhammad Hijāzī, a Muslim born Christian convert, from being officially recognized as a Christian.
Date of source: Sunday, November 25, 2007
The author presents an interview with Carolyn Ludwig, co-author of a new novel released by the American University in Cairo Press entitled, ‘The Churches of Egypt.’