Date of source:
Judiciary independence and national pride are dominating the Egyptian reactions to the US threat
to cut aid to Egypt on protest to the seven-year imprisonment sentence given to Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Ibrahim’s American
wife says that the crisis will be solved in Egypt without American pressure.
Date of source: Sunday, January 7, 2007
The Egyptian press has widely covered Christmas celebrations held by the Coptic Orthodox Church and presided over by Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark.
Date of source: Saturday, July 26, 2008
More than 85 Egyptian Christians have rejected what Revd. Jerry Falwell said about the Prophet Muhammad being a terrorist. Three members of the Egyptian parliament have asked the prime minister to issue a decree to the effect of not allowing the enemies of Islām and those who disgrace Prophet...
Date of source: Sunday, May 14, 2000
Al-Arabi
reviewed the opinions of different intellectuals and prominent figures among them are:
" General Fou’ad Allam,
Ex-Manager of the State Security Police, who said that it is very difficult to confirm whether someone was behind
the demonstrations of the students of the Azhar,
" Spokesman...
Date of source:
Swift intensive efforts were made this week to contain a Muslim-Christian crisis due to a
blasphemous article, by
a Muslim writer, about a former monk. Thousands of angry youths protested against
the article, the Government was
accused of being in collusion with the paper, Pope Shenouda...
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 current crisis of the
frozen opposition party, al-Amal (Labour), entered a new stage after
the revocation, by the administrative
supreme court, of the ban imposed by the parliamentary committee of parties. There is a
high expectation of
a revival of the same party.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Al- Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya is planning to have a more significant presence within the Bar Association in the coming period, lawyer of al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya in Egypt and member of the Bar Association, Muntasir al-Zayyāt told Rose al-Yousuf.
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
The authors write about all Egyptian parties’ rejection to deal with the American International Republican Institute (IRI) except one party, the Social Constitutional Party, whose leader, Mamdouh Qināwī, welcomed cooperation with the American institution.