Egypt’s interim President ‘Adlī Mansūr started today (July 24) the first session for national reconciliation at the presence of Dr. Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyīb, Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II, and Counselor Amīn al-Mahdī, Minister of Transitional Justice and National Reconciliation. The invitation was extended to political parties, representatives of political and national powers and civil figures.

General Secretary of (Salafī) al-Nūr Party, Jalāl Murrah, conditioned his participation to the session upon the setting of a media code of ethics to re-open the closed Islamic TV-channels, and the revising of the political powers’ request to suspend the constitution. The Party demanded that the Azhar lead the session as it is considered a neutral institution (Author not mentioned, al-Akhbār, July 24, p. 3). The article has no link online.