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On the other hand, Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb walked out of the ceremonial hall of Cairo University held over Mursī’s inauguration as president in protest after he was asked to leave his seat on the first row to sit in the second. Tayīb’s seat was taken by Speaker of the dissolved...
Ahmad al-Iskandarānī, the spokesman for the Building and Development Party of the al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyah (Islamic Group), said the Jamā’ah backpedaled on insistence on the text in the new constitution that the rulings of the Islamic sharī’ah are the main source of legislation, adding the wording...
Meanwhile, signs of a new crisis between Muslim and Christian clerics members of the constitution-drafting panel emerged over Article II that currently reads as “…the principles of the Islamic sharī’ah are the main source of legislation,” over attempts to remove the word principles. Representatives...
Constitution experts said the president of the republic, as a result of the complementary constitutional declaration, will be lacking some powers and competences, suggesting set steps to fine-tune his work as an elected president. The experts said the president, right after he takes the...
In a symbolic military parade in the Central Zone in al-Hāykstib area, the armed forces on Saturday (June 30) officially handed over power to Mursī as the first elected non-military president in sixty years. The ceremony was attended by Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and Chairman of the...
After the oath-taking ceremony, Mursī hailed in a speech the Supreme Constitutional Court and its members and said that Egypt today is a modern, civil, national and constitutional state, reiterating respect for the judicial and legislative powers. “I will undertake my role to guarantee the...
The Arab Spring upheavals must change our old vision of the world that is no longer divided religiously among Islamic, Christian or Buddhist but rather should focus on making peace that is only made through solidarity and inter-faith understanding. [Yūhannā Qultah, al-Ahrām, June 30, p. 12] Read...
World newspapers do not stop raising questions about the future of Egypt and stability in the Middle East region after the Muslim Brotherhood made it to power but more important than this is the grave concerns dominating the 12 million or more people – including women, Copts and artists – who voted...
Al-Tahrīr Square on Friday (June 29) hosted a mass gathering called Power Handover as President-elect Mursī addressed the participants and said no power will be above that of the people and whoever seeks the support of any other party but the people would definitely be on the losing side. Mursī,...
The president pledged to respect the concepts of citizenship, democracy, public and personal freedoms and property, free education and subsidy for bread and fuel. He also promised to enhance the free media and freedoms of expression and innovation that respect Egypt’s original values, noting he...

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