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Date of source: Saturday, July 14, 2012
Commenting on a ruling by the Supreme Constitutional Court to dissolve parliament, Ventrell said during a news briefing on Thursday (July 12) that Washington is not taking sides to any of the parties to the political process.
He called on Egyptians to continue achieving what they aspire through...
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2012
Meanwhile, Dr. Muhammad Badī’, the Murshid (Guide) of the Muslim Brotherhood, received on Sunday (July 8) acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius and his delegation.
Badī’ asserted during the meeting that Egypt’s progress will be at the hands of all its sons, as has been the...
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2012
On the other hand, Chairman of the Teachers’ Syndicate Ahmad al-Halawānī, who is also a member of the constituent assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt, said that there will be no change to Article 19 of the 1971 Constitution that read “religious education syllabus is a basic subject”. [...
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2012
On the other hand, Chairman of the Teachers’ Syndicate Ahmad al-Halawānī, who is also a member of the constituent assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt, said that there will be no change to Article 19 of the 1971 Constitution that read “religious education syllabus is a basic subject”. [...
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2012
Meanwhile, Dr. Muhammad Badī’, the Murshid (Guide) of the Muslim Brotherhood, received on Sunday (July 8) acting patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Pachomius and his delegation.
Badī’ asserted during the meeting that Egypt’s progress will be at the hands of all its sons, as has been the...
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2012
The salafī al-Nūr Party caused a crisis over its attacks on Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb for his position to keep Article II of the Constitution unchanged and reject the inclusion of an explanation of the word ‘principles’ in the same article.
[Reviewer’s Note: Article II of the...
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2012
Judicial sources said that the Supreme Constitutional Court is expected to hand down a ruling on a contest challenging the constitutionality of the Shūrá Council, the upper house of the Egyptian parliament, within 45 days, by the end of August or early September. [Khālid Mīrī, al-Akhbār, July 9, p...
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2012
While the Muslim Brotherhood welcomed the decision and described it as a “victory for the values of the constitution and law,” civil political powers and parties categorically rejected it as an “unprecedented violation of the nation’s top court – the Supreme Constitutional Court”.
Rif’at al-Sa’īd,...
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2012
According to presidential decree no. 11 of 2012, decree no. 350 of 2012 by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) dissolving the People’s Assembly, the lower house of the two-chamber Egyptian parliament, is repealed.
The decision also included a call for holding snap elections within 60...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
Several intellectuals and politicians, during the time of the former president, Husnī Mubārak, who exclusively confined Coptic issues between the church leaders and the presidential institution, for bringing the Coptic dossier out of the security apparatus' control.
Ramsīs al-Najjār, a Coptic...
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