Date of source: Saturday, November 19, 2011
On November 28, the first round of the elections for Egypt's parliament (the People's Assembly or Majlis Al-Sha'b), start in Egypt. The Egyptian parliament will consist of 498 members.
Of these, a third of the seats (166 members) are elected by absolute majority vote in their own electoral district...
Date of source: Saturday, September 10, 2011
Dr. Fatmah Sayīd Ahmad began the interview with Major General Abū Bakr al-Jindī, President of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), by asking that all the statistics that were prohibited former regime, related to the census of Christians and Nubians in Egypt, be made...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 7, 2011
The well-known Coptic activist Michael Munīr, founder of the Hayat Party, has refused to comment on the denouncing of his party by Copts Without Borders regarding the creation of his party, focused on defending Coptic rights. He said simply that their response did not merit an answer. He has also...
Date of source: Thursday, July 28, 2011
The first time there was chatter about the establishment of a Coptic state was during the time of late President Anwar al-Sadāt, when the idea of setting up the so-called State of Assiut had first emerged.
Date of source: Saturday, May 21, 2011
For years I have been extremely cautious with reports published by Jihād Watch and AINA (a source often quoted by Jihād Watch). Their language tends to be inflammatory and stories that I was able to check in the past – see the many reports about this subject in AWR – proved to be exaggerated....
Date of source: Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Families, army and the police managed to control clashes erupted on May 10, 2011, between two drivers, one from Jahdam village and the other from al-'Azīyah village of Manfalūt town, Asyut governorate.
The drivers, a Copt and a Muslim, fought over who should pass first on the road linking the two...
Date of source: Thursday, April 28, 2011
There are no natural reasons for Upper Egypt to have fitnah tā'ifīyah for more than 30 years but indeed there are political, security, economic, social, salafī, sexual, and terrorist reasons.
These reasons are keeping the file of fitnah in several governorates like Qena, Asyut and al-Minya.
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Date of source: Monday, March 14, 2011
Hundreds of Copts continued their strike in front of Maspero building on March 13 despite the return of residents of Asyut governorate back to their homes and the start of works to rebuild the Church in 'Ātfīh.
Date of source: Saturday, March 12, 2011
Leaders of al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmiyyah, Muslim Brotherhood, and Sūfīs prayed 'ishāh (nightfall) prayer inside an Evangelical Church in Asyut for the first time.
Further than that, Third Field Army Commander and Director of Security of the Suez governorate visited St. Mary's Church in the...
Date of source: Friday, March 11, 2011
AWR's managing director Hānī Labīb visited Tahrīr square and closeby Maspero (Egyptian Television building) on March 11, 2011 where a large (uncounted) number of protestors and demonstrators from many governorates were: Muslims and Christians, young and old, and men and women came to unify their...