Date of source: Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Minister of Education Jamāl al-'Arabī denied that the ministry would grant licenses to build "Islamic schools," denying that there will be no schools built on religious basis. "The owners of those types of schools lend the name 'Islamic' to their educational establishments but the curricula inside...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Naja' Hammādī has witnessed a new kidnapping of two high school students – Jirjis Rizq and Mīnā Nash'at – while they were on their way to the Anbā Badābā Monastery using motorbikes, five kilometers away from the town.
Running out of gas, Rizq and Nash'at phoned their friends get them some gas but...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Midhat Qilādah, President of the Union of Coptic European Organizations for Human Rights UCEOHR, said that the Union is preparing legal procedures against al-Yawm al-Sābi' newspaper and other newspapers for mentioning his names, and others of expatriate Copts, in the case of producing a film...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 12, 2012
A leader and member at the former People's Assembly and representative of the salafī al-Nūr Party in Sharqia said that the Assembly will resume its sessions soon and denied nullifying the Assembly and said that the President halt the sessions to avoid any conflicts.
The source (newspaper did not...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 12, 2012
A judicial source said that the decision to nullify the People's Assembly by the Military Council was not issued by the Supreme Constitutional Court.
The judicial source at the Supreme Constitutional Court said that its verdict is obligatory to all state authorities, including the Council of state...
Date of source: Saturday, July 28, 2012
Dr. Muhammad Badī’, General Murshid (Guide) of the Muslim Brotherhood group, and several other leaders held a closed-door meeting in the guide’s office with Ismā'īl Hanīyah, head of the Hamas government in Gaza. They discussed several issues, chiefly the Palestinian issue and how to solve it...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 14, 2012
The [Christian] Maspero Youth Union has staged a demonstration outside the Public Prosecutor's office protesting unfair trials against Copts accused of insulting Islam.
The protest was against using “double standards” regarding Copts which the union said reinforces religious discrimination. The...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Possible presidential candidate Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā said if he ever became president of the republic he will apply the Islamic sharī’ah on everyone, adding he will never allow a religion in Egypt other than the three divine ones – Islam, Christianity and Judaism. [Sarhān Sinnārah, Umnīyah Karīm...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Al-Tajammu’ Party has provided the People's Assembly and the Shurá Council with its criteria for the formation of the constituent assembly as follows:
Date of source: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Strict Islam infected restaurants and cafés after demands to allow beard growing were raised inside the army, interior ministry and judiciary. [Rānyā Nabīl, al-Ahālī, Feb. 29, p. 3] Read text in Arabic