Date of source: Tuesday, March 6, 2012
About 50 Coptic figures will meet Tuesday (March 6) to discuss merger into one entity and agree on names of representatives in the constituent assembly that would draft a new constitution for Egypt, Coptic sources told al-Misrī al-Yawm newspaper. [‘Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, March 6, p. 6] Read...
Date of source: Monday, January 30, 2012
Subhī Sālih, a member of parliament from the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), said there are some attempts to spark a falling out between youths in al-Tahrīr Square and parliament on one hand and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) on the other. [Fātimah ‘Abd al-...
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2012
Ann Emil Zakī, a 35-year-old mother of four, adamantly insisted to become the first Egyptian woman to be ordained as priest right after she finished her theological studies. [Mīrā Mamdūh, Rose al-Yūsuf magazine, Jan. 28-Feb. 3, pp. 58-59] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Sunday, January 22, 2012
Presidential hopeful Dr. 'Abd al-Mun'im Abū al-Futūh said Egypt has been a Muslim nation for nearly 15 centuries now, criticizing voices calling for the implementation of the sharī'ah "as if Egypt has been a Quraysh or infidel state". ['Ādil al-Darajlī, al-Misrī al-Yawm, Jan. 22, p. 14] Read...
Date of source: Monday, January 9, 2012
A once reluctant United States is reaching out to the Muslim Brotherhood in a nod to Egypt's new political reality, but concerns linger about the group's attitude toward minorities, women and the peace treaty with Israel, according to a report by the Agence France Presse (AFP). [Author Not...
Date of source: Friday, April 15, 2011
Text presented for the European-Arab Dialogue Conference at Crete, April 14-16, 2011.
In the past 50 years millions of migrants from southern Mediterranean countries have entered Europe. Of course Europe has witnessed migration gulfs earlier but this one was the first with so many people coming...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
From before the revolution, many Copts have realized their community suffers from a dearth of political and civic participation. The Coptic Orthodox Church’s Bishopric of Youth, for example, has an area of focus entitled ‘Promoting Coptic Participation in Society’, which I encountered when a...
Date of source: Friday, November 4, 2011
Bishop Yu'annis, secretary of H.H. Pope Shenouda III, said that the Coptic pope sent his approval of the law on the construction of houses of worship and churches to the Egyptian Cabinet and the Supreme Military Council. Bishop Yu'annis added that the Pope had intended to visit the Grand Shaykh...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 29, 2011
As an American Christian in Egypt I find that I instinctively view events here through the following lens: Liberals are the good guys, Islamists are the bad guys, and the army is somewhere in between, perhaps neutral, perhaps not. Complicated times beg for simplistic narratives, and this one...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 12, 2011
The article calls on Field Marshall Tantāwī, head of the SCAF, to address the public. The demands noted were firstly to acquit the armed forces of the massacre that took place on October 9, resulting in 24 dead Egyptians, and secondly to apologize to the Egyptians for such a crime. The author...