Date of source: Thursday, June 21, 2012
Who will be Egypt’s next president? Muslim Brotherhood leader Muhammad Mursī or the representative of the old National Democratic Party, Ahmad Shafiq? Both claim victory. Mursī has claimed victory from the first minute that the polling stations closed on June 17. How he could know this? I don’t...
Date of source: Thursday, June 21, 2012
Many Egyptians believe that the US supports Mursī and the Muslim Brotherhood in being the next president and forming the next government of Egypt.
As a US-born American, I have always loved my country, but I have seldom been a fan of US-government foreign policy in the Middle East whether...
Date of source: Friday, March 9, 2012
In recent weeks the Muslim Brotherhood has been engaged in public squabbles with the military council over formation of the government. According to most interpretations of the constitutional declaration which guides the transition in Egypt, the presidency – here the military council – has the...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Lamīs Yahyá is an Egyptian student living in Germany who is supporting the Egyptian
student movement for democratization in Egypt. She earlier wrote the investigative report
on the conflict around the building of a Coptic Orthodox Church in Marīnāb, September 30,
2011.
Date of source: Monday, October 10, 2011
Muftī of the Republic A’lī Jum’ah condemned attacking Islamic and Christian tombs in the city of Yāfā in Palestine by extremist Jews and writing provocative racial expressions on them.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Dr. Mahmūd 'Azab, adviser to the Azhar's Grand Shaykh, said that the Azhar can have dialogue with Jews except those who are living with Israel. He added that it is a red line that no one can cross. The Azhar as an institution will never accept having dialogue or communicating with any human being...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Muhammad 'Amr, Egyptian minister of foreign affairs, denied that the Egyptian Ambassador in Tel Aviv had stated that bilateral relations with Israel are for eternity, as some reports have mentioned.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, gave his instructions to accelerate the...
Date of source: Monday, September 12, 2011
Dozens of members of the Salafi Call in Alexandria formed a human shield outside the walls of the Security Directorate following the announcement of groups via Facebook to organize demonstrations outside the headquarters of the Directorate, condemning the events that occurred at the Israeli...
Date of source: Monday, September 12, 2011
While Israel have pitched into contacts with Egypt to prepare arrangements on the return of its Ambassador to Cairo, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the biggest fundamentalist bloc in society, are demanding a revision of relations with the Jewish state in connection with the Camp David Accords.
Date of source: Sunday, September 11, 2011
Security vehicles lined up near the Israeli Embassy in Egypt on Sunday after violence there forced Israel to evacuate its ambassador. Both sides have said they want a return to normal diplomatic activities.