Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 30, 2011
'Abd al-Mun'im Abū al-Futūh, a leading Islamist, on March 29, 2011, quit the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most well-organized opposition group a few days after he insinuated at a possible bid to run for presidency.
Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 28, 2011
Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, Azhar's Grand Shaykh, welcomed Ayman Mitrī [Coptic man who was attacked by extremists Muslim in Qena] in the Azhar's Mashyakhah [headquarter].
Al-Tayīb decided to admit Mitrī in al-Sayīd Jalāl education hospital in the Azhar's university on the expenses of the university....
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آذار (مارس) 29, 2011
Coptic Pope Shenouda III met with the Minister of Local Development Muhsin al-Nu'māni in Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in al-‘Abāsiyah on March 28, 2011.
The Coptic Pope said that they discussed having a community dialogue between all religious main-streams: the church, the Azhar,...
Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 28, 2011
Al-Misrī al-Yawm published on March 28, 2011, a news story about a draft amendment to the law that regulates the formation of political parties.
Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 28, 2011
The Azhar's Grand Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayīb offered Ayman Mitrī, the Copt whose ear was cut off by a group of Salafists in Qena, free treatment at the Azhar hospital.
Mitrī will undergo plastic surgery on his ear. The Grand Shaykh said, this initiative is party of a project called “Family House” with...
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 24, 2011
In response to the heavy mayhem of Coptic teacher Anwar Mitrī, Naj‘ Hammādī’s Bishop Kyrillos called for the military to end sectarian crimes.
According to Mitrī’s lawyer, the attackers accused the Coptic teacher of renting his apartment to “two indecent women," consequently burning his car and the...
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 27, 2011
A proposed national dialogue in Egypt, due to commence very soon, has rekindled post-revolution hopes that sectarianism, a legacy of the divide-and-rule policy of Mubārak's regime, will no longer exist in Egypt.
The proposed dialogue has been announced by Deputy Prime Minister Yaḥyā al-Jamāl, who...
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 26, 2011
Police in the Upper Egyptian Governorate of Qena have launched a large scale manhunt for eight Muslim extremists, who are allegedly accused of cutting the ear of a Copt and burning his house to the ground, security sources said on 25 March 2011.
The victim, whose name was not revealed for legal...
Date of source: الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 25, 2011
The majority of Egyptian voters said yes to the constitution amendments put forth in a landmark referendum earlier this week. The following mission of choosing a parliament, which is expected to play a genuine role in steering the country, will be very difficult.
It needs thoroughness on the part...
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 13, 2011
Coptic protesters in Maspero denied that one of their demands was to have Article 2 of the constitution that states the Islamic sharī'ah is the principal source of legislation canceled.