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14. Terrorist cell, in solidarity with Iraq and Palestine, bomb Al-Azhar area
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A statement from the Ministry of Interior said that Hasan Ra’fat Bashandī, who carried out the suicide bombing of Jawhar al-Qā’id Street in the al-Azhar area, was just a member of a four-man terrorist cell. That cell recruited and trained him and prepared the home-made explosive device used in the...
19. International Muslim-Christian dialogue conference held in Cairo
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The first international Muslim-Christian dialogue conference opened Tuesday in Cairo. The Grand Imam of the Azhar, Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, and Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria opened the conference, organized by Saudi national Islamic institutions and the Middle East Council of Churches.
21. The whole kit and caboodle about the Samallout incidents
Date of source: Monday, May 30, 2005
In the beginning, the church had obtained a permission to build a service facility over a plot of 500 square meters it owned and surrounded with a mud brick wall. Part of the wall had fallen down due to several cracks and strong winds. The wall was not re-built due to rejection by the security...
25. Abstract of S.S. Hasan’s book “Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt: The Century-Long Struggle for Coptic Equality”
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
Watson, who knows Pope Shenouda and many of the Bishops mentioned in the book well, closes his review with Hasan’s words: “It is doubtful that the Copts have made much headway, in their century-long tortuously slow trajectory toward citizenship with equal rights. This statement becomes truer if one...
25. Copts protest in monastery over another Coptic woman’s disappearance
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Some 40 Copts were staging a sit-in inside a monastery in south Cairo in protest against the disappearance of a Coptic woman they said had eloped with a Muslim man, according to security sources and Egyptian church officials.
26. Book Review of S.S. Hasan, Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt: The Century-Long Struggle for Coptic Equality
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 2004
PhD student Fiona McCallum concludes that by focusing on the bishops of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Hasan provides a clear and original study of the impact of the reform movement, illustrating that the use of traditions such as Coptic martyrology combined with modernization of the administration...
60. Applications for presidential nominations to begin
Date of source: Monday, July 25, 2005
The committee supervising the presidential election - the first of its kind since the regime took over in Egypt on July 23, 1952 – has announced that they will start receiving applications for nominations for the presidential post on July 24.
5. Heggy: Why I wrote ‘If I were a Copt’
Date of source: Thursday, June 14, 2007
Transcribed by: Susan Richards-BensonThe following present a transcript of an interview with Tarek Heggy. Heggy discusses a number of issues, centered around his controversial article ‘If I were a Copt.’ He comments on current events in Egypt and the Arab world, and present his opinion on issues...
24. The Armenian presence in Egypt
Date of source: Wednesday, May 16, 2007
The Armenian presence in Egypt materialized prior to the modern age. Their presence dates back to the Fatimid period; the most prosperous period for the Armenians in Egypt.
8. Safwat Hijāzī: 99 percent of the present art is Harām, veiled actresses’ return to acting remind people of her image in a swimsuit, and if a man remarries without telling his first wife, his marriage is void
Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2007
Safwat Hijāzī is one of the cleric stars of satellite channels who became famous over the last few years and whose opinions have engendered a lot of controversy.

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