Date of source: الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 13, 2012
Coptic activist Mamdūh Ramzī called for representation of Copts in all state positions, giving them the chance to have access to top posts and removing any bans on Copts seeking to run for presidential elections. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Wafd, April 13, p. 5] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 12, 2012
The defense counsel of the families of martyrs of the October 9 Maspero incidents quit the case and called for setting up an independent civil investigation panel. [‘Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, April 12, p. 8] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 5, 2012
Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate Khayrat al-Shātir said the implementation of the Islamic sharī’ah is his "lifetime project," adding there is no bargaining over it. [Muhammad Rādī, al-Akhbār, April 5, p. 7] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 31, 2012
Several scholars of the Azhar and its affiliate Islamic Research Academy welcomed the top Sunnī establishment’s decision to withdraw its only representative, former Muftī of the Republic Dr. Nasr Farīd Wāsil, from the constituent assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt. [Ahmad ‘Uways, al-...
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 29, 2012
Presidential hopeful ‘Amr Mūsá said that corruption is the largest enemy facing the second republic, adding corruption must be uprooted and the rule of equality and law established.
“The new republic should develop the cultural and educational process which will include all the society segments...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 21, 2012
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians on Tuesday (March 20) attended the funeral of Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III that started at Saint Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah amidst unprecedented security measures to control the pope-loving masses who tried to enter the cathedral...
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 17, 2012
Egyptians across the country, both Muslim and Christian, are reacting with sadness to the death of Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Shenouda III, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 88 following a long battle with illness, according to state television and cathedral sources.
- Ahmed al-Tayeb, the...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آذار (مارس) 13, 2012
Dr. ‘Isām Dirbālah, the chairman of the al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyah’s shūrá council, has set six key principles he said would be governing the new constitution, including the rights of non-Muslims to have recourse to their own religious laws. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Misrī al-Yawm, March 13, p. 3]...
Date of source: الخميس, شباط (فبراير) 2, 2012
The Maspero Youth Union (MYU) announced a stand of protest on the outside the Syndicate of Journalists headquarters under the rubric No For Devastation Of the State Of Law to condemn excesses against the local residents in al-‘Āmirīyah, western Alexandria, and calls to expel 45 Christian families...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون الثاني (يناير) 31, 2012
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) reiterated condemnation of "attempts to provoke the group's youths" in al-Tahrīr Square during celebrations marking the January 25, 2011 revolution's first anniversary. [Hānī 'Izzat, al-Ahrām, Jan. 31, p. 5] Read original text in Arabic