Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 9, 2011
The Egyptian state TV website quoted an anonymous security source as saying that 23 people involved in the sectarian clashes in Imbābah have been arrested.
A military source told al-Misrī al-Yawm that the military had received information about a plot of the disbanded National Democratic Party to...
Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 9, 2011
In an official statement the UAE government announced its condemnation of recent sectarian clashes in Imbābah in Cairo.
UAE Foreign Minister Anwar Qarqāsh [Reviewer's Note: The al-Misrī al-Yawm newspaper committed a mistake by mentioning that Anwar Qarqāsh is a foreign minister of the United Arab...
Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 9, 2011
Activists created a Facebook page in which they blamed spokesperson of the Coalition to Support New Muslims Husām Abū al-Bukhārī for statements he made on television about a Muslim convert detained in a church in Imbābah.
Activists argued that these statements have motivated salafīs to attack...
Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 9, 2011
The U.S. embassy in Cairo released a statement criticizing the sectarian violence that has occurred on Saturday, May 7, 2011 and calling for transparent and fair investigations.
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Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 8, 2011
According to the article at hand, Muslim youths attacked a large crowd of Coptic protesters marching to the state television building on Sunday, May 8, 2011.
Christian demonstrators blamed an army unit securing the television building for not having intervened. They are further accusing the army of...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 8, 2011
On Sunday, May 8, 2011, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) publicly condemned reckless intolerance and crime. Both were leading to chaos, thereby seriously threatening “the revolution and its objectives.”
The MB welcomed the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces’ decision to put suspects of the Imbābah...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 8, 2011
While presidential candidate Muhammad al-Barād’ī tweeted that “urgent measures [are] required to combat religious extremism & intolerance”.
Wā’il Ghunaym pointed out that “the only solution for sectarian strife in Egypt is implementing law and justice among people without exceptions.”
Similarly...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 8, 2011
On Sunday, May 8, 2011, the Egyptian government issued a warning against anyone causing sectarian conflicts. Minister of Justice Muhammad Abd al-‘Azīz al-Jindī announced that individuals who have been found guilty of triggering sectarian clashes will be punished by death.
The government thereby...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 8, 2011
AWR's Managing Director, Mr. Hānī Labīb, obtained these statements by the Egyptians Against Discrimination movement, condemning the Imbābah incidents and the continuous conciliatory sessions, always resorted to in dealing with sectarian crisis.
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 7, 2011
The Christian channel al-Hayāh which is broadcasted from the U.S. announced that Kāmīliyā Shihātah and her husband will appear on a TV show shot outside Egypt.
Neither the Coptic Church nor Kāmīliyā Shihātah’s lawyer knew about the interview.
Shihātah's lawyer said he has lost contact with her and...