Date of source: Thursday, August 16, 2012
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which was toppled by the Muslim Brotherhood, used to have the right of legislation in accordance with the complementary constitutional declaration and also had the powers to change and even replace the constituent assembly writing a new constitution for...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Fādī Yūsuf, founder of the Coalition of Egypt’s Copts (CEC), said that the decision of the State to open churches in 14 governorates is historic and unprecedent; “however, to put this decision into effect is crucial,” the founder of CEC said.
Date of source: Sunday, May 18, 2014
With the endorsement of the Grand Imām Ahmad al-Tayyib Shaykh of the Azhar, a new branch of ‘Bayt al-‘Ailah (a body related to the Azhar comprised of Christian and Muslim leaders and scholars), was inaugurated in the governorate of Sohag by several officials, among them Dr. ‘Abbās Shūmān, Deputy of...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Judicial circles are discontented over attempts by the Muslim Brotherhood to sack Vice President of the Supreme Judicial Court Tahānī al-Jibālī over what they called “her animosity against the Brotherhood”.
Date of source: Thursday, May 15, 2014
Dr. Ahmad Karīmah, professor of sharī’ah at the Azhar stated in response to al- Qaradawi’s fatwa, calling the participation in the presidential elections harām, that religion has nothing to do with elections and that no person or institution can claim that such a vote or referendum is halāl (...
Date of source: Thursday, May 15, 2014
Security experts have requested that the new American and Israeli Ambassadors to Egypt be rejected by the Egyptian authorities.
Date of source: Thursday, May 15, 2014
Abd al- Fattāh al- Sīsī, presidential candidate, has stated that Egypt is in its neediest moments for its sons abroad, for them to cooperate together to face common problems and the difficulties of the nation.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Constitution expert Ibrāhīm Darwīsh, however, said the decision was a grave mistake committed against Egypt and ran counter to the constitutional legitimacy the president was sworn in.
Date of source: Monday, September 30, 2013
A bomb has exploded in the vicinity of the Latin Church on Paradise Street in Suez, which has caused much fear among pedestrians and inhabitants (Author not mentioned, al-Dustūr, Sept. 30, p. 5). This article has no link online.
Date of source: Sunday, September 22, 2013
The Suhag prosecution has ordered the jailing of two of the defendants who are accused in violent acts in Suhag City since the dispersal of the Rāb’ah and Nahdah sit-ins for 15 days pending investigation. The prosecution has accused them of inciting violence, burning Mar Girgis Church, resisting...