Date of source: Sunday, April 12, 2015
Stephen Cook, employee of the American Ministry of Foreign Relations and specialist in affairs of the Middle East, claims that Erdogan requested Mursī’s release in order to improve Turkish relations with Egypt. However, it is clear that the release of the former Egyptian President is not a...
Date of source: Monday, April 29, 2013
Pope Tawadros warned of threats to the Egyptian state and its three representative pillars – the Azhar, the Church and the judiciary. He called for the intensification of efforts to promote positive work, rather than mere distractions and small issues which are not worthy of being pursued. He said...
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Jamāl al-Bannā is a household name in Egypt, where he is famous both in his own right, as a prominent and sometimes controversial Muslim intellectual and writer, and because of his brother Hass
Date of source: Saturday, January 24, 2015
The 6 April Youth Movement, Al-Jamā`a al-Islāmiyya, Students Against the Coup, and the Muslim Brotherhood, launched calls for protests ahead of 25 January, which will mark the fourth anniversary of the 2011 revolution, on their social media pages.
Date of source: Monday, January 19, 2015
Since the official start of the registration process on 12 January, the Ministry of Solidarity issued permits for 43 Egyptian NGOs to observe the upcoming parliamentary elections, according to Ayman ʿAbd al-Jawwād, general manager of NGOs at the ministry.
Date of source: Saturday, January 17, 2015
During his visit to Egypt, German Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid Christoph Strässer said that fighting terrorism should not violate human rights. He also criticized the highly controversial Protest and NGO laws, both of which have created much heated...
Date of source: Thursday, January 15, 2015
The U.K. Minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood called on Egyptian authorities during his meeting with President `Abd al-Fattāh al-Sisi Thursday to review the case of Aljazeera journalists and to take more steps for the political reform.
Date of source: Thursday, April 16, 2015
Two military students killed in explosion in Kafr El-Sheikh, North Egypt
Two military students and ten others have been killed in a bus explosion in the governorate of Kafr El-Sheikh, according to a police officer. The governor of Kafr El-Sheikh, Osama Hamdī ʿAbd al- Wahīd, said ‘so far, two...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Erdoğan links improving of relations between Turkey and Egypt to the release of Mursī
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan linked the improvement of relations with Egypt to the release of former President Mursī and the abolition of the sentences imposed to his followers. In a press statement, Erdoğan is...
Date of source: Thursday, April 9, 2015
Erdoğan requests the release of Mursī in order to improve relations with Egypt
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Egypt needs to free former president MursĪ and to withdraw the death sentences against his supporters in order for Turkey to consider the improving of its relations with Egypt. The...