Date of source: الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 9, 2013
Major General 'Abd al-'Azīz Qūrah received notification of hundreds of villagers gathering in front of a Muslim’s house following these rumors. Consequently, the security forces managed to control the situation and the investigation revealed that the owner of the burnt house was making bread when...
Date of source: الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 9, 2013
Due to a new rumor claiming that Copts had attacked a Muslim house and set it on fire, the clashes began again in Banī Ahmed al-Sharqīya. This led to a security alert to contain the clashes (Hasan 'Abd al-Ghafār, al-Yawm al-Sābi', Aug. 9).Read original text in Arabic.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 20, 2011
Al-Jazeera's Chairman Wadah Khanfar declared that he would be stepping down from his position after 8 years. There is much controversy surrounding this, as a Wikileaks cable recently released shows his cooperation with some American intelligence services.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 20, 2011
Al-Jazeera's Chairman Wadah Khanfar declared that he would be stepping down from his position after 8 years. There is much controversy surrounding this, as a Wikileaks cable recently released shows his cooperation with some American intelligence services.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 20, 2012
In a warning addressed on the video-sharing website, YouTube, to the opposition, National Salvation Front (NSF), Islamic preacher, Wajdī Ghunaym, said, «the ones who play with fire will get burned». According to Ghunaym, the NSF statements that Egypt is on the merge of a conceivable civil war and...
Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 19, 2012
Al-Yawm al-Sābi’ newspaper looks at the reasons why different areas in Egypt with a high population of Copts have voted in favour of the draft Constitution in the first stage of the referendum and are expected to vote "yes" in the next stage also.
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 28, 2012
The Muslim Brotherhood Group in Egypt greeted western Christians with Christmas (December 25, 2012) through their Twitter account on December 27. A number of activist on social-networking websites condemned the fatwá issued by the Islamic Legitimate Body of Rights and Reformation (ILBRR) that...
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 4, 2013
After al-Sīsī’s statement that deposed Morsi, Azhar’s Grand Shaykh, Ahmad al-Tayyīb, and Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II both made brief statements.
In al-Yawm al-Sābi’, al-Tayyīb supported the army statement to stop bloodshed in the country. Further, Pope Tawadros said that the announced road map...
Date of source: الاثنين, حزيران (يونيو) 24, 2013
The Public Prosecutor, Counselor Tal’at Ibrāhīm, ordered an investigation in the sectarian violent clashes erupted in Abū Mussalim village of Abū al-Numrus City (in Giza governorate south of Cairo) where a number of villagers surrounded the house of Shī’ī leader Hasan Shihātah, attacked four Shī’ah...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 22, 2013
The case of the three suspended Coptic Orthodox bishops initiated an argument during the Holy Synod meeting. It was decided that Bishop Tiklā of Dishnā would return and Bishop Mattias of al-Mahallah and Bishop Amonius of Luxor would remain suspended (Michael Fāris, al-Yawm al-Sābi', June 22, p. 3...