Date of source: Saturday, May 14, 2011
Hundreds of Copts joined the protest which started on Sunday 8, 2011 in front of Maspero in response to massive sectarian violence in Imbābah.
Date of source: Monday, May 16, 2011
'Abīr Tal'at Fakhrī's lawyer said that he did not meet her or saw her before.
Hānī Zakarīyā, 'Abīr's lawyer, said that a parcel was sent to his office by one of his clients, Shaykh Jamāl Najīb. It contained a general authorization from 'Abīr to the lawyer to represent her, her rented apartment...
Date of source: Monday, May 16, 2011
Security appartuses controled a sectarian crisis in two villages in Sohag where an argument turned physical between Muslims and Chrsitians.
Four Coptic young men had assaulted a Coptic young woman. Muslims tried to convince them to admonish them, which turned into a clash with weapones that...
Date of source: Friday, May 6, 2011
Hundereds of niqāb-clad women protested in front of the Azhar office on May 5, 2011 as they are against opinions by Egypt's Grand Muftī Alī Jum'ah regarding the all-covering veil.
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2011
AWR's Sarah Lotfy wrote a press review on Kāmīlilyā Shihātah's appearance on TV.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 11, 2011
AWR's Diana Maher Ghali wrote a press review on the follow-ups of Imbābah incidents, where newspapers reported on the arrest of suspects, national and international figures and countries condemning the incidents and finally the demands to hold those involved accountable.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Tamīm al-Barghūthī writes that the feeling of threat Christians feel is understood, and can only be solved by Muslims.
Each Muslim who sees his Christian brother oppressed and can not do anything about it, is part of the oppression.
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Date of source: Monday, May 9, 2011
AWR's Diana Maher Ghali writes a two days' press review on Imbābah incidents.
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2011
Six persons were reportedly killed and 94 other injured in clashes between salafists and Copts in the impoverished district of Imbābah, al-Jumhūrīyah, page 2, May 8, 2011.
Reports on the Imbābah incidents conflicted over the number of casualties.
[In al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, page 4, May 8, 2011, the...
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2011
Khālid al-Islāmbūlī, a nephew of Khālid al-Islāmbūlī, a top convict in the murder of late President Anwar al-Sadāt, arrived in Cairo on May 7, 2011.
He came from Iran through Turkey after a 23 years of absence. He and his family were not banned form entering Egypt, even during the time of the...