Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 24, 2012
Ashraf Thābit, the deputy speaker of the dissolved parliament, said he expects the parties to the crisis to reach a political thaw during the next few hours.
Thābit, a member the Salafī al-Nūr Party, said people who have concerns about the sharī’ah should not feel this way because there is nothing...
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 13, 2012
Six Copts were named for the constituent assembly, including Edward Ghālib, Bishop Yūhannā, Bishop Bula, Samīr Marqus, Shahīrah Halīm Dūs and Munsif Najīb Sulaymān.
The substitute list, however, included a less number of Copts – four, including George Nājī Misīhah, Sūzī Nāshid, Nabīl Samuel Abādīr...
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 13, 2012
Counselor Māhir Sāmī, Vice-President of the Supreme Constitutional Court and its official spokesman, told the Middle East News Agency (MENA) that the court's refusal to participate in the constituent assembly was due to failure by political powers to reach consensus on the lineup of this panel.
He...
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 13, 2012
Six Copts were named for the constituent assembly, including Edward Ghālib, Bishop Yūhannā, Bishop Bula, Samīr Marqus, Shahīrah Halīm Dūs and Munsif Najīb Sulaymān.
The substitute list, however, included a less number of Copts – four, including George Nājī Misīhah, Sūzī Nāshid, Nabīl Samuel Abādīr...
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 15, 2012
SCAF reiterated that the runoff round will be held as scheduled and there will be no change on that, calling on citizens to go to the polling stations and to elect the candidate they think best for the nation. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, June 15, p. 1] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 15, 2012
SCAF reiterated that the runoff round will be held as scheduled and there will be no change on that, calling on citizens to go to the polling stations and to elect the candidate they think best for the nation. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, June 15, p. 1] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 15, 2012
The decision by the minister of justice to authorize military intelligence and military police officers and NCOs the power to arrest civilians suspected of having committed crimes has raised hue and cry among political and revolutionary movements that announced their rejection while some law and...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 16, 2012
Saudi ambassador in Cairo Ahmad bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Qattān, who is also the kingdom’s permanent envoy to the Arab League, received Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah and Dr. Hānī ‘Azīz, the chairman of Egypt Peace Lovers Association. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, June 16, p. 6] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 10, 2012
The Azhar prepared an initial list of its representatives on the panel, as the names included the former Muftī of the Republic and incumbent member of the Islamic Research Academy Dr. Nasr Farīd Wāsil and senior advisor to the Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Dr. Hassan al-Shāf'ī.. [Author Not Mentioned...
Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 10, 2012
The ministry of justice rejected a draft law criminalizing hatemongering on the basis of religion, sex, language, culture or ethnicity on the grounds that the proposed draft is already covered in the penal code articles 160, 161, 161-bis, 171 and 176 and consequently there is no need for an...