Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 16, 2012
The Arab Socialist Alliance Party warned of sectarian instigation by Islamists for political gains in the presidential elections in their conflict with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) over power.
The party called on Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate Muhammad Mursī to send...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 16, 2012
The national security agency has intercepted a number of phone calls between those persons and some loyalists that turned out to have been made from inside Egypt, the sources added.
“The armed forces coordinated with the police to deploy several fixed and mobile patrols with weaponry and tanks on...
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 22, 2012
Coptic associations called for the state’s intervention to prevent the church from civil legislation for Christians, have it confined to the religious aspects and that the government should enact civil laws on personal status for Copts away from any interference by the church.
The conference held...
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 22, 2012
The Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamā’ah group in Alexandria said Dr. Muhammad Mursī is the president of Egypt and its supreme commander of the armed forces, warning the Higher Presidential Election Commission (HPEC) against approaching “Egypt’s elected president, Mursī, who is a red line”.
“We refuse having...
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 22, 2012
In an interview with journalist Charlie Rose broadcast Wednesday (June 20), Clinton called the military's actions during the past week "clearly troubling."
The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has declared an interim constitution that gives its generals and the courts final say...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 23, 2012
On the other hand, judicial sources in the Higher Presidential Election Commission (HPEC) said the examination of challenges submitted by presidential candidate Ahmad Shafīq revealed that a large number of Copts received threats against voting for Shafīq and were prevented by force from going to...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 23, 2012
Meanwhile, political powers and parties embarked on forming what they called the “Civil Current” within preparations to participate in the next parliamentary elections in a bid to “confront the fulūl (remnants of the former regime) and the Muslim Brotherhood with a unified list,” according ‘Imād...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 23, 2012
Muhammad Mahdī ‘Ākif, the former murshid (guide) of the Muslim Brotherhood, said former minister housing Hasab Allāh al-Kafrāwī asked him to join him and former Arab League Secretary-General ‘Amr Mūsá, currently outside Egypt, to attend a meeting with SCAF members in an attempt to reach a solution...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 23, 2012
Mursī, after a series of meetings with political figures and representatives of revolutionary youths, announced setting up a unified national front encompassing all political factions.
Mursī reiterated the front’s rejection of the decision to dissolve the People’s Assembly, the law on arrest rights...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 31, 2012
Meanwhile, Counselor Munsif Sulaymān, a member of the Coptic Orthodox Church’s General Millī Council, announced on Wednesday (May 30) the final list of candidates for the papal chair of Saint Mark, totaling 17, including seven bishops and 10 monks.
The list includes Bishop Yū’ānnis, Bishop Bīshūy...