Date of source: Friday, September 28, 2012
Several tribes of Sinai said the interior minister approved arming the local residents there to participate in the protection of their own lands while people of the Mīt Khaqān village, Shibīn al-Kūm town headed to the al-Ismā’īlīyah Hospital to receive the bodies of their relatives culprits of the...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Presidential candidate Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awā has called on the military council not to extend the transition period after February, and to hold the parliamentary elections as scheduled.
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[Reviewer's note: a similar story was covered in al-Misrī al-Yawm, September 20, 2011.]
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2011
A group of salafists in al-Menoufiya governorate set a Muslim shrine on fire under the pretext that tombs of Muslim scholars, considered holy by many Muslims, are against the Muslim faith.
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Ahmad al-Tayīb said that whoever demands the destruction of shrines belong to bloody...
Date of source: Friday, February 12, 2010
The killer of a Coptic man in Monufia faces charges of manslaughter. The security apparatus is trying to discuss the matter away from the sectarian angle.