Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 29, 2018
ʿAbd al-Ḥakīm ʿAbd al-Nāṣir said that the deceased leader achieved freedom and social justice and ensured education and health for all citizens without distinction. The revolution he led is "purely humanitarian" as he expressed.
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 9, 2018
The recently deceased scholar Shaykh Maḥmūd ʿĀshūr was one of the most prominent undersecretaries and leaders of al-Azhar over the past years; besides, he was an active member of the Islamic Research Academy, the Supreme Consultative Council for Bringing Muslim Madhahib Closer together of the...
Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 9, 2018
Pope Tawāḍrūs II of Alexandria and Anba Ibrāhīm Isḥāq, Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria, responded to Pope Francis I of Vatican’s call for an ecumenical prayer for the Middle East in the Italian city of Bari.
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...