Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 10, 2018
The first scientific forum dedicated to the antiquities of the Sinai Peninsula and the Canal cities was organized this October under the direction of the Minister of Antiquities Dr. Khālid al-ʿAnānī. Al-Waṭan presents the following review of the most prominent of these diverse monuments from...
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 10, 2018
“Coptic Mawlids, or the festivities celebrating the birth of Coptic saints: A field study of popular beliefs” by Dr. Dāwūd Makram was recently issued by the General Egyptian Book Organization under the chairmanship of Dr. Haytham al-Ḥājj ʿAlī. The book is numbered thirty-four under “Popular...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, نيسان (أبريل) 8, 2014
Ashraf Alham Hanā, a Coptic English teacher at the preparatory school in Mazrūq, Minya, refused to allow a student to smoke inside the classroom and rebuked him for doing so. Some relatives of the student waited for the teacher in front of his house last week and shot at him. Yesterday he died.In a...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, نيسان (أبريل) 8, 2014
The reconciliation initiative exists, but where are those who reconcile? There is a tribal conflict going on between the Dābūd and the al-Hilāl. 25 Egyptians have been killed and families fled their houses. "Reunion" is an initiative launched by 40 inhabitants of Aswān to discuss the crisis of the...
Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 28, 2018
Kamāl Shātīlā, chairman of the Lebanese Popular Congress, said in an interview with “al-Waṭan” that the death of President Jamāl ʿAbd al-Nāṣir was a total catastrophe for Egypt, the Arab nation, and the third world countries, stressing that Nāṣir was a symbol for the dreamers of freedom and...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 25, 2018
Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark, held a meeting with New Jersey priests and their families as part of his current pastoral visit to the United States, which began on September 13, and is scheduled to last for several weeks.
Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 6, 2014
After David Cameron, British Prime Minister, has demanded an investigation into the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK, Ibrāhīm Munīr, the Secretary of the International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood, stated that if the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK is banned many in the Muslim...
Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 6, 2014
In a horrific massacre between the families of the Nubian Dābūdiah family and the Bani Hilāl tribes in Aswan left 22 dead mostly from the Banī Hilāl and 32 injured, some of which are in a critical condition. Ten houses got burnt. Mustafá Yusrī, the governor of Aswan, and General Hassan al- Suhājy,...
Date of source: السبت, نيسان (أبريل) 5, 2014
The bodies of Mariam and Samīr, two of the Warrāq Church victims who were shot in front of the Virgin Mary Church in Warrāq on the 20th of October, have been moved from the family cemetery in Usīm to the 6th of October cemeteries that bury martyrs of sectarian incidents. This took place after...
Date of source: السبت, نيسان (أبريل) 5, 2014
Dr. Ahmad Karīmah, Professor of Sharī’ah at the AzharUniversity, accused the Muslim Brotherhood of burning his car Friday morning, inside the garage of his house in ‘AyātCity. This led to its complete destruction before the fire brigades arrived. Dr. Karīmah has registered a formal complaint at ‘...