Date of source: الجمعة, أيلول (سبتمبر) 21, 2012
Deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) Dr. Rafīq Habīb said the groups that hail the dissolution of the parliament only aim to block any success by Islamists and then corner the president to call for repeating the presidential elections. [Author Not Mentioned,...
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 23, 2012
Acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius nodded a recent statement by the Los Angeles parish priests assembly that called for not including the name of Bishop Serapion of Los Angeles on the list of persons contained in a report to the public prosecutor in Egypt regarding a...
Date of source: الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 17, 2012
Today’s press overview is tackling a “weird” so-called fatwá sanctioning the killing of opponents of President Muhammad Mursī, made by Shaykh Hāshim Islām, a member of the Azhar’s fatwá committee. In his religious opinion, Islām considered the opponents as “khawārij [Kharijites which means...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 14, 2012
Today’s overview deals with calls by the Azhar on Muslim countries meeting at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in the Saudi city of Jeddah to withdraw the Arab initiative to settle the disputes between Israel and the Palestinians. It also tackles the Egyptian churches’ rejection...
Date of source: الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 10, 2012
Today’s overview still tackles the repercussions of the Dahshūr incidents as the newly-formed Christian Brotherhood group members are participating in a march called by the Maspero Youth Union and other Coptic movements to condemn to denounce the collective punishment and forced displacement of...
Date of source: الأحد, آب (اغسطس) 5, 2012
Today's overview highlights the issue of Dahshūr, where calm has been restored and local residents have appealed to Coptic families who left their houses after unrest in the troubled area to return home. The al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyah (Islamic Group) said the Dahshūr clashes did not amount to a...
Date of source: الخميس, آب (اغسطس) 2, 2012
President Muhammad Mūrsī has assigned the Governor of Giza, Dr. 'Alī 'Abd al-Rahmān the task of containing the crisis in Dahshūr, guaranteeing the restoration of security, implementing the law and returning the displaced families to their homes, following the clashes between Christians and Muslims...
Date of source: السبت, آب (اغسطس) 4, 2012
Security agencies in Giza identified 16 suspected perpetrators involved in the incidents in the troubled village of Dahshūr, where Copts’ stores and houses were pillaged and burnt during the past few days. [Muhammad Shūmān, al-Ahrām, Aug. 4, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: الخميس, تموز (يوليو) 26, 2012
President Muhammad Mursī endorsed a decision appointing former Deputy Governor of Cairo Samīr Marqus as an aide to the president amidst welcome in Coptic circles that praised Marqus’s political and intellectual savvy. [Hadīr Subhī and Manāl Sulaymān, al-Misryūn, July 26, p. 3] Read original text...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 24, 2012
[Editor: Daniel Podertschnig presented the Austrian study visit to Egypt with seven photos with short descriptions at the website of the University of Vienna. This is his presentation for Arab-West Report]