Date of source: Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Egyptian-Turkish consultations with one another began on Wednesday May 5, 2021, at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry’s headquarters; the talks were the first of their kind since 2013. The Foreign Ministry said that the consultations will be led by Egyptian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ḥamdī...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 20, 2015
The League of Egyptians in Germany revealed the falsehood of a statement made by Norbert Lammert, President of the German Parliament that he had canceled an upcoming meeting with Egyptian President ‘Abd al-Fatāh al-Sīsī on account of Egypt’s human rights abuses. In a statement, the League...
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: Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Few subjects are so sensitive in Egypt as the conversion from one religion to the other. It is often difficult to find out the truth in such stories with all of the possible interests involved, both of the convert and the people around him or her. One can obtain a better glimpse of the various...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The popular image of Salafī Muslims in Egypt is of a lower-class, older generation, perhaps limited in educational achievement. This is not their fault, many might patronizingly sympathize, as President Mubarak is blamed for letting the school system rot to keep the population ignorant, poor, and...
Date of source: Friday, September 10, 2010
Mohamed Raafat Othman called the Grand Mufti's comments on the Kamilia Shehata case "contradictory" as the Grand Mufti once said it was permissible for Kamilia to be handed over to the Church, and then later on said it was unacceptable. Islamic Philosophy Professor Amina Nasr added that what...
Date of source: Monday, August 25, 2008
Kiwan interviews Māhir al-Jawharī, who converted to Christianity from Islam, discussing al-Jawharī’s lawsuit submitted to the Administrative Judiciary Court, as well as a background on the problems he encountered after his conversion.