Date of source: Monday, June 27, 2022
Prof. Dr. Hudā Ghagab ʿAwaḍ, is processor of political science at Misr International University, is secretary-general of the Centre for Arab-West Understanding since May 23, 2012, board member of CEOSS and is an active member of the Egyptian Council for Human Rights.
Dr. Hudā met on May 10, 2022,...
Date of source: Friday, December 9, 2011
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) issued a decision forming an advisory council, which is to discuss the two laws on presidential elections and the lineup of the constituent assembly on the constitution.
Date of source: Sunday, December 9, 2012
Dr. Hishām al-Hamāmī comments on the Churches' withdrawal in an article entitled: "Who will the Copts choose: Jesus called 'the Christ' or the thief called Barrabas"? In his article, al-Hamāmī compares the Copts protesters against the 'Islamic national' movement with the gentiles who chose to...
Date of source: Friday, December 7, 2012
Thousands of members of the Muslim brotherhood attended the funerals of three (of their martyrs who died in clashes outside the Presidential Palace on Wednesday (December 5) night. The wife of one of the men, Muhammad Khalaf, accused a Copt of killing her husband, saying that eyewitnesses had...
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Political and social theorist Sir Isaiah Berlin famously compared nationalism to a ‘bent twig’, ‘forced down so severely that when released, it lashed back wit
Date of source: Friday, November 23, 2012
President Muḥammad Mursī issued a constitutional declaration seeking retrials of former regime officials charged with murdering and attempted murdering of protesters.
The declaration also contained an article immunizing all constitutional declarations and decrees issued by the president of the...
Date of source: Friday, August 10, 2012
Journalist Khālid Salāh, the editor-in-chief of the independent al-Yawm al-Sābi’ newspaper, was assaulted and his car smashed outside the Egyptian Media Production City (EMPC) on Wednesday (Aug. 8).
Salāh said during the investigations that a large number of bearded demonstrators carrying placards...
Date of source: Friday, July 18, 2014
Head of the al-Nūr political party Yūnis Makhyūn declared that the “Egyptian Nation” coalition has excluded his party more than the Muslim Brotherhood ever did. In addition, Makhyūn stated that ‘Amr Mūssa, head of the Committee of Fifty, and Sayyid Badāwī, head of the al-Wafd party, did not contact...
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The 2014 Egyptian Constitution; Perspectives from Egypt
Date of source: Thursday, May 31, 2012
“Reports asserted that the majority of Copts voted for Shafīq, ‘Amr Mūsá and Hamdīn Sabbāhī and a fewer number voted even for former MB member ‘Abd al-Mun’im Abū al-Futūh as well as other presidential candidates with all their different political affiliations and ideologies,” the ECHR said in a...