Date of source: Thursday, April 7, 2011
Kamāl al-Hilbāwī, a prominent Muslim Brotherhood member, urged Egyptian Islamists to join hands and adopt moderate Islam in order to shape a bright future for their country.
Hilbāwī said salafists should never insult other factions and the Brotherhood should not deny other Egyptians their right to...
Date of source: Friday, March 25, 2011
Egypt's right groups, legal experts and revolutionaries on 24 March 2011 balked at the government's approval of a draft law to criminalize protests.
Date of source: Monday, March 14, 2011
The portrait of Husnī Mubarāk has been removed from most State institutions after three employes replaced it in the Cabinet headquarters three weeks ago with the word 'Āllāh' in a frame.
This was followed by other governmental agencies. An official in Qalyubia Governorate, north of Cairo, said...
Date of source: Sunday, March 13, 2011
Political parties and figures are still divided on the Army's proposed constitutional amendments, on which the Egyptians are to vote next week.
The Muslim Brotherhood announced it backed the constitutional changes, urging the people to vote for them as a “first positive step, but not enough”.
The...
Date of source: Thursday, January 20, 2011
The article reports that although the forensic final report on the Alexandria attacks is out, security officials still “have nothing to say to media about the bombing”. Al-Qā’idah is still suspected to be behind the attack, after having made several threats to attack churches in Egypt. Pope...
Date of source: Friday, January 14, 2011
The article at hand describes the Egyptian police’s denial of claims that the suicide bomber responsible for the Alexandria attacks was of Pakistani origin.
Furthermore, the article covers the interior ministry’s release of the latest forensic findings, which identify the perpetrator as a 23 to 25...
Date of source: Thursday, January 13, 2011
This Egyptian Gazette article covers the issue of the train shooting in Minya on Tuesday night. Prosecutors have detained the 23-year old policeman who allegedly opened fire while on a Cairo-bound train, killing a 71-year-old Copt, while wounding his wife and four others, all of whom are Christian...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Ashraf Madbūlī's article quotes Endowments Minister Mahmūd Hamdī Zaqzūq, who says that the People's Assembly will debate a personal affairs law for Christians in the current parliamentary session. Zaqzūq also says that the government is "mulling a new law to regulate the building of mosques and...
Date of source: Sunday, January 9, 2011
According to the Egyptian Gazette, Alexandria prosecutors are looking into the death of an Islamist suspected of being tortured to death for his suspected involvement in the recent Alexandria church bombing.
Date of source: Friday, January 7, 2011
Muslims celebrated alongside Christians at Coptic masses in churches nationwide on Thursday night, as extra security measures were taken after the New Year's attack on a church in Alexandria.
Pope Shenouda led mass at St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo, which witnessed the presence of Muslim statesmen...