Date of source: Sunday, June 24, 2012
The Azhar appealed to all Egyptians to maintain their national unity and rise above differences and divisions as much as they can in order to spare the nation a conflict.
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, in a statement on Saturday (June 23), asked Egyptians to preserve Egypt’s...
Date of source: Sunday, June 24, 2012
The official naming of a new president is one of the most important developments of the Egyptian revolution amid a heated debate regarding the powers of the coming president and those of SCAF in light of the absence of parliament.
Dr. Muhammad Salāmah, a professor of law at the University of...
Date of source: Sunday, June 24, 2012
The Azhar appealed to all Egyptians to maintain their national unity and rise above differences and divisions as much as they can in order to spare the nation a conflict.
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, in a statement on Saturday (June 23), asked Egyptians to preserve Egypt’s...
Date of source: Sunday, June 24, 2012
Archpriest Frances Farīd, the deputy head of the Beni Suef patriarchate, denied that the church was involved in directing its congregation to vote for Shafīq as some claim.
“The statement found by the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist groups, which contained instructions to Copts to vote for Shafīq,...
Date of source: Sunday, June 24, 2012
Khālid Abū al-Fadl, an Egyptian residing in the United States, chairman of the Islamic philosophy department in the U.S. University of Yale and former member of the U.S. Congress United States Commission on International Religious Freedoms (USCIRF), dismissed reported pressures by the U.S. on SCAF...
Date of source: Sunday, June 24, 2012
Ashraf Thābit, the deputy speaker of the dissolved parliament, said he expects the parties to the crisis to reach a political thaw during the next few hours.
Thābit, a member the Salafī al-Nūr Party, said people who have concerns about the sharī’ah should not feel this way because there is nothing...
Date of source: Sunday, June 24, 2012
The calls were made during a press conference hosted by the Free Egyptians Party (FEP), attended by a host of leaders of liberal parties, public figures and activists.
“We reject that Tahrīr Square should become a source of pressures to attain the objectives of a certain political faction. The...
Date of source: Friday, June 15, 2012
SCAF reiterated that the runoff round will be held as scheduled and there will be no change on that, calling on citizens to go to the polling stations and to elect the candidate they think best for the nation. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, June 15, p. 1] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Friday, June 15, 2012
On the other hand, Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah and Chairman of the Voter Registration Committee on the election of a new pope for the Coptic Orthodox Church in succession of Pope Shenouda III, who died in March, said the number of voters expected to be included in the election is about 2500...
Date of source: Friday, June 15, 2012
SCAF reiterated that the runoff round will be held as scheduled and there will be no change on that, calling on citizens to go to the polling stations and to elect the candidate they think best for the nation. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, June 15, p. 1] Read original text in Arabic