Date of source: Monday, February 6, 2012 to Thursday, March 1, 2012
The Giza Emergency Supreme State Security Court adjourned to the April 1 session the Imbābah incidents case in which 48 persons – 33 Muslims and 15 Christians – are facing charges of illegal assembly, premeditated murder, attempted murder, sparking and inciting sectarian fitnah and setting fire to...
Date of source: Friday, April 29, 2016
The Hijab business is witnessing a boom and the trade in Hijab in the Egyptian market has recently catapulted to about $16 billion. This number represents Egypt's annual import value from Hijab related clothes and fashion or clothes with Islamic character in general.
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Tūjān al-Faīṣal, the first female member of the Jordanian parliament, is being interviewed and talks about her background, the effects that the Israeli-Jordan peace treaty has on Jordan politics and democracy, pluralism and the role of intelligence in Jordan, legal and judicial...
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Interviewers: Quinta Smit, Eline Kasanwidjojo, Aidan Mascarenhas-Keyes
Language of interview: English (original intverview), English (presented transcript)
Transcript: Quinta Smit
Approval: Requested and no objection received
Dr. Nadia Muṣṭafā works at the Institute of Progressive Civil Studies...
Date of source: Sunday, October 1, 2006
Michael Munīr was born in 1968 in Egypt in Abu Qurqas near Minia to a Coptic Catholic family even though he today considers himself Coptic Orthodox. Munīr refers to his life in Egypt as a member of an oppressed Christian minority without religious freedom, citing this as his reason to emigrate to...
Date of source: Thursday, October 1, 2015
President `Abd al-Fattāh al-Sisi announced a global initiative to invest in youth and discourage them from terrorism and extremism at the 70th United Nations General Assembly meeting on Monday evening.
Date of source: Monday, February 16, 2015
Websites connected to ISIS reported that the organization’s fighters had kidnapped and slaughtered 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya. They said the kidnappings came as revenge for Muslim women who were exposed to persecution at the hands of "the Copts in Egypt." The extremist organization specified...
Date of source: Monday, February 16, 2015
Al-Azhar which has resisted and persecuted those who have attempted to reform Islam since the end of the 19th century, is now being called upon by Egypt’s president to do what they have long suppressed:. reforming Islam. The response of the shaykhs of al-Azhar has been to announce conferences and...
Date of source: Sunday, August 30, 2015
In his essay on Religion and Politics, Kāmel `Abd al-Fattāh writes:
Egypt seems not to learn from its past experiences; every regime that ruled the country over decades now, repeat the same pattern of mingling religion with state affairs or religion with politics. Egyptian political regimes still...
Date of source: Monday, February 16, 2015
Who are Kāmīliyā Shahhāta and Wafā’ Qustantīn: the two women ISIS is slaughtering Copts in Egypt in revenge for?
Websites connected to ISIS reported that the organization’s fighters had kidnapped and slaughtered 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya. They said the kidnappings came as revenge for Muslim...