Date of source: Monday, May 23, 2011
Dr. Muhammad 'Abd al-Jawād, Diplomatic advisor of the Azhar Grand Shaykh, said that the Azhar is still refusing to engage in dialogue with the Vatican, without an official apology from the Vatican Pope, who defamed Islam describing it as a bloody religion.
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Date of source: Monday, May 23, 2011
The Adminstrative Judiciary Court of the Council of State issued a verdict on May 22, 2011, stripping the Egyptian citizenship from Maurice Sādiq as well as crossing off his name from the membership list for the Lawyer's Syndicate.
Sādiq is a Coptic lawyer residing in the United States of America...
Date of source: Sunday, May 22, 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) inaugurated the new building of the MB party "Freedom and Justice" on May 21, 2011, in al-Muqattam.
Each of both potential presidential candidate 'Amr Mūsá and Hamdīn Sabāhī, as well as 'Abd al-'Azīz Hijāzī, Rif'at al-Sa'īd, Sāmih 'Āshūr, Mahfūz 'Azām, Ambassador Rifā'...
Date of source: Sunday, May 22, 2011
Following a six hour closed-meeting on May 22, 2011, Christians and Muslim clerics participated in the conciliatory meeting in Ayn Shams. The results of the meeting including things such as maintaining the present situation as is with the church, unless the church can present proof that the factory...
Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2011
Muhammad Ibrāhīm Mikāwī, 50 years-old, called Sayf al-'Adl, is an Egyptian doctor, who served in the Egyptian special forces. After that he became an activist in Islamic Jihād group, before joining Afghani fighters in their war against the Soviet invasion.
He is believed to be the third man after...
Date of source: Saturday, May 14, 2011
'Abīr Tal'at Fakhrī', the cause of the incidents of strife in Imbābah, has arrived at al-Qanātir prison for women, to serve a 15 day detention pending an investigation.
Date of source: Saturday, May 14, 2011
Hundreds of Copts joined the protest which started on Sunday 8, 2011 in front of Maspero in response to massive sectarian violence in Imbābah.
Date of source: Monday, May 16, 2011
'Abīr Tal'at Fakhrī's lawyer said that he did not meet her or saw her before.
Hānī Zakarīyā, 'Abīr's lawyer, said that a parcel was sent to his office by one of his clients, Shaykh Jamāl Najīb. It contained a general authorization from 'Abīr to the lawyer to represent her, her rented apartment...
Date of source: Monday, May 16, 2011
Security appartuses controled a sectarian crisis in two villages in Sohag where an argument turned physical between Muslims and Chrsitians.
Four Coptic young men had assaulted a Coptic young woman. Muslims tried to convince them to admonish them, which turned into a clash with weapones that...
Date of source: Friday, May 6, 2011
Hundereds of niqāb-clad women protested in front of the Azhar office on May 5, 2011 as they are against opinions by Egypt's Grand Muftī Alī Jum'ah regarding the all-covering veil.