Date of source: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The parliamentary body of the MB’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) expressed rejection that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) or the Azhar should interfere in laying the criteria for setting up a constitution-drafting panel.
The board also said it will be committed to the...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Constitutional law experts, for their part, said the Azhar should not interfere in those criteria now that there are no constitutional texts or historical precedents in this concern.
They agreed that the Azhar’s initiative is a guiding one but not at all binding to any party, adding the top Sunnī ...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The parliamentary body of the MB’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) expressed rejection that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) or the Azhar should interfere in laying the criteria for setting up a constitution-drafting panel.
The board also said it will be committed to the...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The parliamentary body of the MB’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) expressed rejection that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) or the Azhar should interfere in laying the criteria for setting up a constitution-drafting panel.
The board also said it will be committed to the...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
“The nation is now like a ship boarding all. If it sinks, all will drown and if it sails through, all will survive,” said Hassān in a meeting with the Azhar students on Tuesday (April 17), urging followers of MB member Khayrat al-Shātir and Salafist Hāzim Salāh Abū Ismā’īl, both were disqualified...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Also speaking on the occasion was Muhammad ‘Alī Bishr, a member of the Irshād (Guidance) Office of the Muslim Brotherhood group, who said that Egypt has lost an unprecedented patriotic figure, praying that Pope Shenouda’s successor would pursue his path. [Ahmad Sa’dāwī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, April 25...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The St. Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah on Tuesday (April 24) hosted a huge ceremonial gathering on the occasion of commemorating Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III on the 40th day of his departure.
Leading a Mass was acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius and members of the Holy...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Hammād also ordered filing investigations with the rest of the suspects, 29, for lack of sufficient evidence they were involved in incitation in the incidents.
The investigators sent a copy of the decision to the Egyptian Radio & TV Union (ERTU) to enforce administrative penalties on Ibrāhīm al...
Date of source: Monday, April 23, 2012
A post-revolution Egypt and Egyptians’ aspirations undoubtedly require radical changes in the current constitutional concepts that should be replaced by guarantees protecting the rights of citizens and coming generations, writes Nabīl ‘Abd al-Malik in an opinion article in al-Ahrām.
Islamists in...
Date of source: Monday, April 23, 2012
Meanwhile, the People’s Assembly on Sunday grilled Muftī of the Republic Dr. ‘Alī Jum’ah over his recent visit to Jerusalem and the al-Aqsá Mosque and requested him to offer his resignation.
The majority of members of parliament considered the visit as undermining Jum’ah’s credibility, harming the...