Date of source: Saturday, November 18, 2006 to Friday, November 24, 2006
Diana al-Dabc writes about what she calls the “ghettos of Christian
students at Egyptian
universities.” She points out the isolation of Coptic students and discussed possible
reasons for this. Many students
expressed their viewpoints.
Date of source: Sunday, November 19, 2006
Majdī Khalīl discusses the forced disappearance of Coptic girls. The claims around this phenomenon are not new, however it is being announced more frequently. Khalīl discusses the reasons why Coptic families are more often daring to announce the disappearance of their girls, and the reasons behind...
Date of source: Saturday, November 18, 2006
The Supreme State
Security Court resumes hearings on the bombings of the Azhar area and ‘Abd al-Mun‘im
Riyād
square that took place in April, 2005.
Date of source:
The general counselor of
the Brotherhood does not believe the
government responded to their success in the recent parliamentary elections through the
severe and
unjustified verdict of the Military Court in the case of professional syndicates. Two Egyptian human rights
organizations requested...
Date of source:
The victory of the
Moslem Brotherhood in the recent parliamentary elections in which they obtained 17 seats created many
speculations about what
they would do in the future, especially after they announced their intention to
form a new political party. al-Musawar
discarded the possibility of...
Date of source: Friday, November 17, 2000
Al-Hayat, praised the Muslim Brotherhood for backing the Coptic candidate of the Wafd Party in the Waili district. The author of the article described the group’s attitude as "a new step towards an opening to other political powers and an attempt to extend the group’s efficient political tendencies...
Date of source:
The Egyptian press exposed religious authorities’ and intellectuals’ points of view regarding the violent confrontations between the Palestinians and the Israeli forces; in his interview with al-Musawwar, the Shaykh of the Azhar condemned the Israeli trespassing of al-Aqsá mosque....
Date of source:
Early last
Friday morning, thousands of Christians of all ages
rushed into the church of Virgin Mary in Luxor. The occasion was Bishop
Musa calling the Christians of
Luxor in an attempt to open a positive conversation to solve the crisis after the people’s
out right
rejection of the decision...
Date of source: Sunday, July 2, 2000 to Monday, July 3, 2000
This
article exposes the reasons for arresting Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Professor of sociology in the American
University in Cairo and director of the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Developmental Studies, and the full details
of his project.
Some of the charges of which he was accused are implication in...
Date of source: Sunday, June 25, 2000
Several articles in the Egyptian press shows how Egyptians were deeply touched by the impressive celebration, which took place on June 1st, in Saint Mary’s Coptic Church in Ma’adi, to commemorate the third millennium anniversary of the coming of the Holy Family to Egypt. It exposes how this...