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Bishop Yūhnā Qutla, representative of the Patriarch of the Catholic Church in Egypt, said in an interview with ONTV that Egypt authorities had performed their role to the best of their abilities concerning the crisis of the kidnaped Egyptians in Libya. He added that the situation in Libya is not...
Qulta: Egypt is waging war on specters…everyone is paying the price of freedom Bishop Yūhnā Qutla, representative of the Patriarch of the Catholic Church in Egypt, said in an interview with ONTV that Egypt authorities had performed their role to the best of their abilities concerning the crisis of...
[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.]
It is the time before the presidential elections. Egypt is in the middle of a possible transitional period and a mostly transitional mood.
Yesterday and today I was at the Mujama' administrative building at Tahrīr square to complete the residence permit in my passport. Just around the corner was the burned building of the Scientific Research Center besides Parliament. The military has sealed off the Qasr al-'Inī and Shaykh Rayhān...
One of the most confusing aspects of the recent clashes in Tahrīr Square is why they happened at all. The basic story, told at length here, is that a small group of sit-in protestors were dispersed violently by police, and as word spread more and more protestors joined their ranks. Eventually...
News is almost never as it appears.  On December 1st I went with investigative researcher and former lieutenant with the Egyptian coastal security Intelligence Rā’id al-Sharqāwī to Tahrīr square.  The square is currently blocked for traffic by perhaps 2,000 demonstrators asking people wanting to...
As an American Christian in Egypt I find that I instinctively view events here through the following lens: Liberals are the good guys, Islamists are the bad guys, and the army is somewhere in between, perhaps neutral, perhaps not. Complicated times beg for simplistic narratives, and this one...
The Egyptian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release a detained blogger who has been on hunger strike for over a month, Amnesty International said today. The health of twenty-five year-old Maikel Nabil Sanad, who has been on hunger strike since 23 August, has greatly deteriorated...
It is an interesting period to be in Egypt. It is obvious that no one knows the direction in which the country is heading. The government itself is in a state of confusion. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has never seen so many changes in foreign ministers in one year as in 2011, which thus far has...

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