Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Al-Dustūr carries a page three headline reading: "Lawyer of Samallūt [Train] Incident Injured: Accused an Extremist, Committed Crime of own Volition."
The text says Ihab Ramzī, the lawyer for those injured in the Samallūt train shooting, announced that the accused, ‘Amir ‘Ashūr ‘Abd al-Zahir,...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Al-Dustūr says that the ‘Umrāniyyah Appeals Committee has turned down a challenge by the Giza Bishopric to reverse the decision to stop construction at the disputed church site.
The report says the previous meeting of the ‘Umrāniyyah Appeals Committee had postponed its decision so that the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
The Family Home initiative is officially underway, according to al-Misrī al-Yawm.
The paper reports that the Egypt Peace Society has convened its first conference related to the initiative, which aims to create a Muslim-Christian body to serve as a mouthpiece for both the Azhar and the Church.
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Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Al-Dustūr quotes informed sources saying that a "sovereign party" has gained "confirmed information of the involvement of the Israeli Mossad in the [Two Saints Church] explosion in cooperation with Egyptian elements.”
The paper further says “Egyptian security authorities had spotted an Israeli...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
The meeting of the Egyptian-European Council was the scene of a heated debate between the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Shūrá Council and the Papal Nuncio in Cairo regarding Pope Benedict's recent statements regarding the protection of Middle Eastern Christians.
According to...
Date of source: Sunday, December 12, 2010
Ahmad al-Ghazūlī believe that there has to be Islamic secularity that build so that a Muslim Democratic party can be built above it, that can interact and not only coexist with non-muslims.
He proposed the idea of establishing a Muslim secularity that excludes the fake Muslim Brotherhood...
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2011
Many of Monday’s opinion pieces in the Egyptian press dealt with the positive and negative aspects of considering a unified law for building worship places in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2011
Monday’s Egyptian newspapers once again focused heavily on the Naj‘ Hammādī incidents of 2010...
Date of source: Friday, January 14, 2011
Two weeks after the attack on the Church of the Two Saints, Saint Mark and Pope Peter, Egyptian newspapers continued their coverage of the ensuing investigation...
Date of source: Monday, December 13, 2010
The Muslim Brotherhood and other representatives of political forces filed 20 appeals to the supreme administrative court and the supreme constitutional court to null the current parliament.
Subhī Sālih an MB says that they back their appeal with article 87 in the constitution that states: “The...