Date of source: Sunday, August 16, 2015
During the TV program '90 Minutes' broadcast on Al-Mehwar channel, Dr. Mo`taz `Abd al-Fattāh, professor of political science, said that were the ousted Mursi still in power, he would have treated the protesters more harshly than the way the current regime has treated the supporters of the Muslim...
Date of source: Sunday, August 9, 2015
In a statement disclosed to Misr al-`Arabiyya, Counselor Munsif Sulaimān said that Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, held an open-ended meeting in the papal residence of `Abassiya during which, among other church issues, the new personal status law draft was...
Date of source: Saturday, August 8, 2015
“I do not expect you to lose your entity for the sake of mine or for the sake of anyone else; you have your independent self. I want you to have confidence that comes from within: from yourself. It is only then that you will reach happiness.” This is the advice that Latīfa al-Zayyāt utters over the...
Date of source: Sunday, August 2, 2015
The most recent publication of Dār Al-`Ain is the book of the Egyptian author Hishām Hatāta: "Women: a journey from glorification to degradation"
Date of source: Friday, July 31, 2015
Since the Revolution of 23 July 1952 Egyptian heads of state had written their own biographies.
The network Sasapost took the task of publishing these autobiographies, starting with Egypt's first president, Muhammad Najīb, who after a house arrest that lasted eighteen years, was finally released...
Date of source: Thursday, July 30, 2015
The Egyptian political thinker, Dr. Mustafa al-Feqi, said that the new Suez Canal is an integrated national project that marks the beginning for new investments, stressing that the new channel will yield economic productivity as well as political and military profit. However, al-Feqi added, a...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 29, 2015
In a statement exclusively disclosed to Al-Sharq al-Awsat (MENA), the governor of Marsa Matrūh, `Alā' Abu-Zaid said, that the Egyptian-Libyan borders are completely secure, and that Egyptian forces are prepared to face any attempted breach of the borders, IS is not present in any part of western...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 28, 2015
In an aired phone interview presented by Al-Mehwar TV-Channel, Egyptian painter Ahmad `Abla strongly criticized the minister of culture, `Abd al-Wāhed al-Nabawi, saying that the changes the minister wants to implement will kill the creative soul of Egyptian art, in particular on what concerns the...
Date of source: Monday, July 27, 2015
In an interview to HuffPost Arabi, former Tunisian president, Muhammad Munsif al -Marzūqi warned that in case the death penalty on [ousted] President Muhammad Mursi was carried out, there would be an outbreak of violence in Egypt with unforeseen effects. He added that there would be repercussions...
Date of source: Sunday, July 26, 2015
Nāder al-Serafy, one of the co-founders of the "Copts 38" movement that demands the Egyptian Coptic Church allow divorce, expressed hope on the government’s newly proposed “personal status” law that sets out new marriage rules for Christian couples.