Date of source: Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Despite warnings by the Supreme Council of Armed Forces to all the mass media and religious movements not to promote or advertise anything related to accepting or rejecting the constitutional amendments, many Muslim Brotherhood members and salafists handed out fliers on the referendum to citizens...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Niqāb-clad women refused to take off their black satin gloves in a number of polling stations to dip their fingers in the indelible ink, saying it is against Islam.
Date of source: Thursday, March 17, 2011
AWR's Diana Maher Ghali writes a press review on three main issues that are currently occupying the pages of newspapers: the second article in the constitution that states: "Islam is the Religion of the State. Arabic is its official language, and the principal source of legislation is Islamic Sharī...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 16, 2011
AWR's Diana Maher Ghali writes a round up of the news in Egyptian newspapers about the events that unfolded in the church of Two Martyrs, Saint Mina and Saint George in Sūl village of 'Ātfīh (Helwan governorate.)
Date of source: Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Journalist 'Āmīnah Talāl interviewed the residents of Manshiyyat Nāsir who assured that there was not any sectarian aggression between Muslims and Christians in the district. They have always lived together in peace.
A female resident in this area called for reviewing the second article in the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Wednesday's Egyptian newspaper coverage of the Alexandria church bombing focuses on speculation regarding who may be behind the attack. But some are accusing the Egyptian media of competing to identify the responsible party, according to AWR's Hānī Hamdī...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Archpriest Mīnā Ibrāhīm of the Archangel Michael and St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Church in Australia calls for equality in the building of worship places for Christians and Muslims in Egypt.
He wrote that the obsruction of church building projects and the existence of government standards that...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Farīdah al-Naqqāsh laments how many Christians are leaving Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine because of the "increasing influence of armed Islamic extremism that targets Christians."
She refers to a recent conference held in Lyons, France to commemorate three rational Arab intellectuals who passed away...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 13, 2010
A new committee put together by The National Council for Human Rights is finishing up a new anti-terrorism draft law to take effect in December. The new draft law, which will be pitched to the new People's Assembly’s Legislative Committee, would replace the current emergency law if accepted....
Date of source: Wednesday, June 2, 2010
The author reports on the third conference for resisting religious discrimination held by the Democratic al-Jabhah Party to shed light on the role of press in addressing religious discrimination.