Date of source: Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, al-Wafd, and al-Yawm al-Sābi’ newspaper report on January 2 that Salafīs have returned Aghābī ’Isām Jirjis, the Coptic 14-year old minor back to her family, after her disappearance nine days ago, after several negotiations efforts by investigation police with leading figures of...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Via his personal account on Twitter, Ramaḍān said, “Ibrāhīm ʿĪsā’s absence from the screen is a big loss for the media and constitutes a negative indicator for the future of freedom in Egypt… In solidarity with Ibrāhim even if I disagree with some of his opinions… What a loss.”
Date of source: Thursday, February 2, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb held an extraordinary meeting of the Islamic Research Academy on Wednesday (February 1) to form a committee that is to select members of the Senior Scholars Panel.
Informed sources told al-Shurūq al-Jadīd newspaper that according to approved selection...
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2012
Khayrat al-Shātir, the deputy murshid (guide) of the Muslim Brotherhood group, said that SCAF's passing of the Azhar law is a "grave mistake" and "flagrant assault on the parliament." [Ahmad Fathī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Jan. 28, p. 7]
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2012
The enactment of the law on the Azhar, known in the media as the Azhar independence law, was severely criticized as it was approved and published in the official gazette a few days before the People's Assembly session.
'Abd al-Ghanī Hindī, the leader of the people's movement for the independence...
Date of source: Thursday, January 26, 2012
Thousands in Shubrā went on a march to al-Tahrīr Square, demanding an end to military rule, stressing national unity and completing the goals of the revolution. [Rānyā Rabī’ and Muhammad ‘Antar, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Jan. 26, p. 4]
Date of source: Friday, January 27, 2012
Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb congratulated members of the Azhar's Islamic Research Academy on the enactment of the new law regulating the top Sunni Muslim establishment's affairs, known in the media as the Azhar independence law, issued hours before the People's Assembly session...
Date of source: Saturday, January 21, 2012
Calm has returned to the area of Ibn al-Hakam, Shubrā al-Khaymah, al-Qalyubia governorate, 30 kilometers north of Cairo, where a rumor on turning warehouses into a church was about to spark confrontations between Muslims and Copts.
Copts wanted to hold the Epiphany Mass inside a warehouse owned...
Date of source: Friday, January 20, 2012
Muhammad al-Dimirdāsh, a legal advisor for the minister of insurances and social affairs, said that the draft law on NGOs was the outcome of the work of a committee that comprised several people working the civil society field.
During a first workshop to discuss the draft, Dimirdāsh said that there...
Date of source: Sunday, January 15, 2012
On the other hand, justice ministry sources informed of the course of investigations into the foreign finance issue revealed that examining judges have received a new report accusing 15 more civil society organizations inside Egypt of receiving funding worth $600,000 from the United States prior to...