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We are facing a current phenomenon about the appearance of religious parties clad in political attire during a fragile time of political reform
Participants of "The first international symposium of Egyptian Copts: A minority under siege.” addressed the symposium on one of three levels. The first expressed wrath at the deterioration in the state of affairs of the Copts throughout the past half – century. On the second level, participants...
During the demonstrations against al-Nabaa in the cathedral, the police held about 36 boys, of whom three were kept for 35 days. It is remarkable that the president of the US Copts Association started a campaign to free them AFTER they had been released. He also claimed that the arrested youths...
Fahmi Howeidi believes that anger ruined the right way of handling the case of the expelled monk. Instead of regarding it as an attempt to attack the public system, violating the traditions of the journalism profession, it was regarded as a matter concerning only Copts. The angry people did not...
The author makes comparisons between the way this crisis, caused by a newspaper report, and other similar crises have been dealt with. He feels that the Ministry of Interior is dealing with each opposing power according to their influence. He believes the demonstrations should have urged the...
The Muslim Brotherhood want to form a political party to end their series of failed coalitions with other parties. Dr. Essam Al-Erian said that founding a Brotherhood Party was the only way to end the stagnation in the Egyptian political arena.
The Egyptian Center for Human Rights asked the legislative institutions to specify a certain number of seats in Parliament for women. At the same time, the Center called all political parties and all NGOs to activate women’s political participation.
In the two months since the last trial session, lawyers for the defense have had to fight for access to the official court record of prosecution oral arguments. Judges ruled that, contrary to precedent, the official court record may only be viewed at the courthouse and neither photocopied or...
Saad Eddin Ibrahim said that because he is currently being tried before Egypt’s Higher State Security Court on charges which include his lectures and writings on religious freedom and minority rights, including those of Egyptian Copts, his defense lawyer requested him to decline the invitation to...
The Turkish ambassador to Cairo comments on the Armenian’s claims of being persecuted by the Ottaman Empire. He said while the Ottoman Empire was collapsing, the West wanted Turkey to wrongly admit it had persecuted Christian minorities. They also urged the Christian minorities to seek their...

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