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25. Copts’ Night of Terror: Rioting chills Muslim-Christian relations as new parliament is elected.
Date of source: Thursday, November 10, 2005
An investigation, carried out with help of AWR editor-in-chief Cornelis Hulsman, into the events surrounding the riots in Alexandria on Friday, October 21, 2005.
26. A Coptic party facing the Brotherhood
Date of source: Friday, September 23, 2005
Mamdouh Nakhla, who submitted a proposal to establish a Coptic party, answers questions about the objectives of such a party.
31. Three families monopolize the political positions of Copts in Egypt
Date of source: Thursday, August 26, 2004
Copts are used to join Egyptian political circles, whether in the government or the parliament, through appointments [not through elections]. There are many reasons that led to this situation. There are three Coptic families monopolizing political positions offered to Copts; two of them, the Ebeids...
5. The President of Egypt should be a Muslim, not an Islamist
Date of source: Thursday, April 28, 2005
Nominating a Copt for President has triggered a lot of controversial points of views following the nomination of Copt businessman ‘Adlī Abādīr, residing in Switzerland.
9. Nour’s al-Ghad…party for Copts?
Date of source: Monday, February 14, 2005
Muna Makram ‘Ubayid, the deputy leader of al-Ghad [Tomorrow] Party, has been a fountainhead of power for leader Ayman Nour, a former member of parliament who is currently imprisoned on charges of forging official documents for his newly-founded party. She has also, however, been his Achilles’ heel...
9. How do the Copts nominate themselves as candidates and who elects them?
Date of source: Friday, March 10, 2000
The article is about many Copts who will be presented as candidates in each political party; Al-Wafd, Al-Tagammu, the Labor Party and the ruling National Party. In 1995 there were 57 Coptic candidates but none of them was in the National Party. This time everybody expects the National Party to...
27. US judges the world’s tolerance
Date of source: Friday, September 24, 1999
The Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, which criticizes several Middle Eastern countries including Egypt, is the result of the Religious Freedom Act sponsored by right-wing members of the US Congress in 1998 in what some observers say was a capitulation to fundamentalist Christians...
11. Minister of Education Dr. Hussein Bahaa’ Al-Din: Copts are present in the educational syllabuses
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 1999
The Minister of Education Dr. Hussein Bahaa’ Al-Din insists that the existing educational syllabuses are against extremism, addiction and ethnic discrimination, and teach tolerance and that while there is a deficiency in some syllabuses he has charged d the Higher Committee for History with the...

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