Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 27, 2012
Al-Qā’idah Organization threatened the Muslim Brotherhood group and the April 6 Movement that it will move its activities to Egypt if they continued to “act foolishly as if they were guardians over the Egyptian people’s will,” said a media spokesman of the armed network. [Muhammad Fū’ād, Rose al-...
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 25, 2012
Presidential candidate Abū al-‘Izz al-Harīrī said Christians’ voting for Mubārak’s last prime minister, Ahmad Shafīq, reflects their concerns about the ascendance of the political Islam groups. [‘Umnīyah Karīm and Ahmad Salīm, al-Akhbār, May 25, p. 4] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 24, 2012
Leaders of the three Egyptian Orthodox, Catholic and Evangelical churches cast their vote in Egypt’s first post-revolution presidential elections and urged all Christians to vote. [‘Imād Khalīl, Hamdī Qāsim and Yāsir Shimays, al-Misrī al-Yawm, May 24, p. 7] read original text in Arabic
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 23, 2012
Now that a president would obtain the confidence of the Egyptian people’s majority, there must be strong cooperation with him in order to build the homeland, achieve honorable living standards, strict justice and disciplined freedom. [Yūhannā Qultah, al-Ahrām, May 23, p. 11] Read original text in...
Date of source: الاثنين, آيار (مايو) 21, 2012
Sharīf Ramzī, the founder of the Copts without Restrictions movement, called on all citizens of Egypt to vote in the presidential elections and shoulder their share of responsibility in monitoring the voting process. [Shādyah Yūsūf, al-Ahrām, May 21, p. 6] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آيار (مايو) 22, 2012
In a few days, Copts in Upper Egypt are going to cast their votes in the presidential elections amidst expectations that only three – Ahmad Shafīq, ‘Amr Mūsá and Hamdīn Sabbāhī – will garner these votes. [Amīr al-Sarrāf, al-Wafd, May 22, p. 9] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: الجمعة, آيار (مايو) 18, 2012
A senior Salafist preacher said the Islamic sharī’ah must be clearly mentioned in the constitution as the main source of legislation, not just the principles of the sharī’ah as sought by liberals and seculars who only want to empty the sharī’ah of its content. [Muhammad Abū al-‘Aynayn, al-Misrī al-...
Date of source: السبت, آيار (مايو) 19, 2012
Dozens of Coptic women gathered outside the St. Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah on Friday (May 18) to protest statements by Bishop Bīshūy, Secretary of the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod, in which he called on Christian women to observe modest clothing and “follow in the...
Date of source: الأحد, آيار (مايو) 20, 2012
The so-called Orthodox Church Guards coalition rejected protests by Coptic women on Sunday (May 19) at the St. Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah against Secretary of the Holy Synod Bishop Bīshūy for his calls on Christian women to observe modesty in dress codes like Muslim...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 17, 2012
The Muslim Brotherhood group will be the first association to be promulgated after the People’s Assembly will have passed the new law on non-governmental organizations, currently under debate, said an official in the Freedom and Justice Party. [Muhammad Khayyāl and Ahmad ‘Abd al-Halīm, al-Shurūq al...