Date of source: Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Muḥammad ‘Alī Ibrāhīm blames al- Karāmah for reviving the attacks of January18-19, 1977 and accuses the newspaper of sowing sedition against the police. He praises the police forces and highlights their remarkable success in keeping the equilibrium between fighting terrorism and respecting human...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Rose al-Yūsuf interviews Nijād al-Bura‘ī, the director of the Cairo-based Group for Democratic Development, about his stance on the role of the National Council for Human Rights [NCHR] in civil society. al- Bura‘ī blames the council for failing to play an intermediary role between the...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Chief of Suhāj’s security department proves that the news reported about girls’ kidnapings and human organ theft are mere rumors.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Dr. ‘Abd al-Majīd identifies the civil state and the democratic state and calls for a national unanimity on the basic principles that the state is established on.
Date of source: Sunday, January 21, 2007
This article criticizes the Egyptian government for refusing to recognize the fact that there are minorities in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Labīb blames Dr. Aḥmad Kamāl Abū al-Majd for his strategy of keeping the council’s reports and correspondences confidential. He highlights Abū al-Majd’s rejection of the council’s Cultural Committee because it criticized the Azhar.
Date of source: Thursday, January 18, 2007
The National Council for Human Rights ended its first session tensely; a member submitted a memo to its head and head of the Shūrá council decrying its performance as a failure.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Yesterday morning, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark flew to Mexico for a two- week visit, during which he is expected to inaugurate a church. Bishop Marqus, the media spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church, denied rumors that the pope has traveled for a medical...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 23, 2007
George Ḥabīb Bibāwī publishes the fifth and final episode of his series of articles in Rose al-Yūsuf newspaper about the problems facing the church. This article is entitled ‘Devastating the last lay bastion, what is next?’
Date of source: Monday, January 22, 2007
A Copt has accused an Orthodox archpriest of colluding with his former fiancée to steal his ‘shabkah’ [Reviewer: a set of jewelry or gold that men usually present to their fiancées before or at their engagement].