Date of source: Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Dr. Ḥasan al-Shāfʿī, Chairman of the Arabic Language Academy, who is also a representative of the Azhar in the panel, said the Azhar and the church are in agreement on the need to keep Article II of the constitution intact.
Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2012
Coptic thinker Rafīq Habīb said the war being waged by the secularist powers and elite on the Muslim Brotherhood and its Freedom and Justice Party, Islamist parties and the constituent assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt are all battles against the Islamic identity, the same thing that...
Date of source: Friday, November 30, 2012
Dr. Ḥasan al-Shāfʿī, a senior advisor to Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb and a senior Azhar scholar, said the top Sunni Muslim establishment, is not making itself a party to any political disputes, whether with the Muslim Brotherhood or Salafīs, adding the Brotherhood and Salafīs...
Date of source: Friday, November 30, 2012
Bishop Būla, the representative of the church who quit the constituent assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt, said the church has not authorized anyone to vote on its behalf over the draft.
Date of source: Friday, November 23, 2012
President Muḥammad Mursī issued a constitutional declaration seeking retrials of former regime officials charged with murdering and attempted murdering of protesters.
The declaration also contained an article immunizing all constitutional declarations and decrees issued by the president of the...
Date of source: Saturday, November 24, 2012
Objections to the president’s decrees caused tension and clashes with members of the Muslim Brotherhood group in a number of governorates, topped by a most heated Alexandria.
Date of source: Thursday, November 29, 2012
The al-Marj Court of Misdemeanor adjourned the trial of Albir ʿAyyād Sābir, a Copt who faces charges of religion disdaining, insulting prophets and openly casting doubts over heavenly books and sanctities, to the December 12 session as courts are on a strike protesting a constitutional declaration...
Date of source: Thursday, November 29, 2012
The Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization, founded by Counselor Najīb Jabrā’īl, in cooperation with the local and international groups, threatened to demand the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to send international fact-finding commissions to gather evidence from all sources and...
Date of source: Saturday, November 24, 2012
Members of the judiciary in Alexandria started a sit-in on Friday (November 23) prior to their participation in extraordinary meetings of the Judges Clubs’ general assemblies scheduled to be held today (November 24) in protest over the recent decrees by President Mursī.
Date of source: Saturday, November 24, 2012
Reactions of Egyptians on the streets escalated over decrees by President Muhammad Mursī on Thursday (November 22) sacking the public prosecutor and immunizing his decisions as political, betraying deep divisions within the society as opponents termed them as “rehash of past dictatorship”. [Author...