Date of source: Sunday, March 18, 2012
Major General Muhsin Murād, First Assistant Minister of Interior for the Cairo Security Department, said that the state of emergency would be extended for 24 hours after the people pay their last respects to Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III and the preparations for the burial end.
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Date of source: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
I phoned Lt. Colonel Hamdī 'Abd al-Karīm, the director of the interior ministry's information and press office, in 1983. I told him then that I wanted to pay a visit to Pope Shenouda III and spend a day with him at Wādī al-Natrūn.
Date of source: Monday, March 5, 2012
Dr. Muhammad ‘Imād al-Dīn, member of the parliament for the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), said that since the FJP have the largest percentage of seats in the People’s Assembly and the Shurá Council are of the FJP, 50 percent. Consequently, they would settle in its favor the argument over the...
Date of source: Friday, March 9, 2012
The technical secretariat of the People’s Assembly, responsible for receiving the proposals for the criteria of the members of the constituent assembly, closed to receive any proposals, reached 210 in number, for the Constitution panel.
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Date of source: Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Mamdūh Hamzah, General-Secretary of the Egyptian National Council, specified seven requirements for the members of the constituent assembly such as:
Date of source: Friday, March 9, 2012
National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) demanded that the members of the constituent assembly should be elected from outside parliament to avoid conflict of interests.
Date of source: Saturday, March 10, 2012
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) handed over a memo to the president of the People's Assembly about the constitution panel. CIHRS said that the members of the constituent assembly should be outside parliament in order to protect the constitution's legitimacy.
Date of source: Saturday, March 17, 2012
Coptic Orthodox Church announced the death of Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III, who passed away at the age of 88 after a long battle with illness. He was suffering from chronic disease in his lungs and kidneys.[‘Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, March 18, 2012, p. 63] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: Sunday, February 26, 2012
Last week the media reported, that finally a solution was found for the sectarian crisis in the Sharbāt village of the Township of al-'Āmirīyah, Alexandria governorate. [Reviewer's Note: After violent actions of hundreds of Muslims against the family of a Copt, who was accused of having a romantic...
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: