Date of source: Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Minister of Interior Majdi `Abd al-Ghaffār met a group of journalists in his office on Monday to discuss police abuse and plans to confront terrorism.
Date of source: Thursday, December 31, 2015
World Servants, a Dutch Christian organization that supports building projects in different countries, contributed to several buildings in Egypt for social purposes. All projects, except for two, have been completed. The Coptic Orthodox Bishop of Beni Suef made promises to also complete these last...
Date of source: Sunday, December 20, 2015
"I will adjourn the session, in case anyone breaks the legal, ethical, and fundamental rules of this Parliament": these were the words uttered by Dr. Āmna Nossair, whose thrusting personality had made her most probably best qualified to be the first woman to preside the Egyptian Parliament in its...
Date of source: Monday, December 14, 2015
In Luxor - the ancient Egyptian city that draws thousands of tourists each year – a facebook campaign has prompted the arrest of nine police officers accused of torturing the man to death.
Date of source: Thursday, January 14, 2016
Georgetown University PhD candidate Matthew Anderson went in July 2015 with Arab-West Report/Center for Arab-West Understanding to Maghagha were we met with several local people, Christians and Muslims, about the expulsion of an extended Christian family from Kafr Darwish following allegations of...
Date of source: Friday, March 20, 2015
The ministry of social solidarity closes 9 NGOs in Luxor because of their links to the Muslim Brotherhood. The representative of the ministry in Luxor added “these NGOs will be closed completely by next week and their money and property will be claimed by the ministry to aid other NGOs”
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Date of source: Thursday, November 19, 2015
Yesterday I received the unexpected news that Ezzat al-Salamony (ʿIzzat al-Salāmunī) died ... back in August. He was a leader in al-Gama'a al-Islamiya (the Islamic Group), designated a terrorist entity by the United States. I was able to interview him a couple of times.
Date of source: Monday, January 5, 2015
CAWU Researcher Rene Witteveen met with Mina Magdy, General Coordinator of the Maspero Youth Union on October 10th 2014.
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Christianity in the Arab World was flourishing in relative terms prior to the First World War and consequent break-up of the Ottoman Empire.
Date of source: Sunday, April 5, 2015
The first group of international human rights trainers graduate in Aswan
An international human rights organization (T.O.T) in Aswan has graduated its first group of students. Participants in the program worked in workshops aimed at developing communication and presentation skills, as well as...