Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Meanwhile, Mahmūd al-Saqqā, who chaired the People's Assembly procedural session on Monday (January 23), announced that Sa'd al-Katātnī, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood group's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), was elected speaker of the parliament.
Katātnī garnered 399 out of a total...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Despite the public positions of the Egyptian State which completely opposes reconciliation with the Muslim Brotherhood, meetings have been held in prisons most likely to formulate a new deal between the group and the State to change the approach of the relations that has always been characterized...
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Background:
ʿIsām al-ʿIrīyān has been a member of the Muslim Brotherhood for many years and served on its Guidance Bureau. He is now the Vice Chairman of Ḥizb al-Ḥurriya w-al-ʿAdāla (Freedom and Justice Party) founded by the Muslim Brotherhood in 2011. Al-ʿIrīyān has been arrested several times;...
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Interviewers: Quinta Smit, Eline Kasanwidjojo and Nick Gjorvad
Language of interview: English (original interview), English (presented transcript)
Transcript: Eline Kasanwidjojo
Approval: Requested and no objection received
Prof. ʿAmrū Ḥamzāwī teaches political science at the American...
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Interviewers: Quinta Smit, Eline Kasanwidjojo
Language of interview: Arabic not mentioned (original interview), English (presented transcript)
Interpreter: ʿAmr Sharīf
Transcript: not mentioned
Approval: Approved by interviewee
Interview with ʿAlī Khafāgī, Secretary General of the...
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Interviewer: Eline Kasanwidjojo
Language of interview: English (original interview), English (presented transcript)
Transcript: Eline Kasanwidjojo
Approval: requested and no objection received
The interview with Aḥmad Najīb Founder Council of Trustees of the Revolution in Egypt, evolves round the...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Cairo said that it did not request a meeting between Egyptian President ‘Abd al-Fatāh al-Sīsī and President of the German Parliament during al-Sīsī’s upcoming visit to Germany. This came in an irate statement released by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry responding to the announcement of the President...
Date of source: Saturday, May 4, 2013
Pope Tawadros leads his first Easter festivities amidst the ambiguity surrounding the position of the Copts. The transition from the late Orthodox Coptic Pope Shenouda III to Pope Tawadros oversaw the development of a more complex relationship between the church and state. The Copts are saddened by...
Date of source: Thursday, May 1, 2014
On Monday April 28th, the Minya Criminal Court sentenced 683 people to death in a controversial ruling, , including Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Muhammad Badī’, and former speaker of the Peoples Assembly, Saad al-Katātnī, for charges including inciting violence, murdering a police officer, and...
Date of source: Monday, July 22, 2013
This interview took place in English and was recorded. Editorial notes have been made to clarify some statements. Slight English editing was done. The first part was transcribed by Cornelis Hulsman, the second part by Esther Schoorel.