Date of source: Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Al-Dustūr carries an open letter to President Muhammad Mursī after his reshuffle of the SCAF and the retirement of Field Marshal Tantāwī and Chief-of-Staff, ‘Anān.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Mīrā Mamdūd reports in Rose al-Yūsuf that several Coptic organizations, movements, and activists have founded a Coptic advisory council to unite groups that are interested in Coptic matters.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Khālid Rizq reports that the criminal court in Ismailia has referred the cases of 14 members of the organization “al-Tawhīd wal-Jihād,” who are accused of attacking police station in al-’Arīsh and branch of the Bank of Alexandria, to the Grand Muftī. The next court session will be on the 24th of...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 15, 2012
In al-Akhbār, Marco ‘Ādil writes about an attack by a militant group on the shrine of Sīdī Yūsuf al-Zahār in the village of Ajhūr al-Ramal.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Al-Ahrām reports that President Muhammad Mursī has appointed ‘Abd al-Mun’im Ibrāhīm Bayūmī as Commander of the Air Defense Forces, Usāmah Ahmad Ahmad as Commander of the Navy, and Yūnis al-Sayīd Hāmid al-Misrī to the post of Commander of the Air Force.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Muhammad Hassan writes in al-Ahrām that Tāriq al-Zumur, official spokesman for al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyah, has confirmed the rights of Copts to freely practice their religion and culture.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Al-Akhbār writes that the new Minister of Information, Salāh 'Abd al-Maqsūd, has announced that he will work towards moving the media from dependency on the government to a media that professionally reflects “the pulse of the Egyptian street”.
Date of source: Saturday, January 13, 2018
Despite political and societal efforts made to protect women’s rights and solve their deep-seated family problems, women's and human rights organizations believe they are still in an inferior, or at least an unfair, position in the face of violence, underage marriage, FMG, harassment and political...
Date of source: Saturday, August 11, 2012
Writing in the al-Hurīyah wal-‘Adālah (Freedom and Justice) newspaper within the context of the ongoing feud between journalists and the Muslim Brotherhood over alleged efforts by the Brotherhood to control the media, Brotherhood member Dr. 'Abd a-Rahmān al-Bir says: “a journalist is the possessor...
Date of source: Friday, August 10, 2012
Twenty-five human rights organizations and political parties called on the Shūrá Council to freeze the recent appointments of chief editors of state-run newspapers