Date of source: Sunday, June 14, 2020
On Sunday, the Forum for Development and Human Rights Dialog issued its report on “‘ḥisbah’...a restriction on freedom of thought and expression.” The report deals with the concept of ḥisbah (accountability); a type of voluntary duty based [in Islam] by which an “overseer” monitors other peoples’...
Date of source: Saturday, June 13, 2020
The magazine Rūz al-Yūsif, in its Saturday edition, caused controversy after including a portrait of Bishop Raphael [Rāfāʾīl], who is bishop of the churches in central Cairo, next to Muḥammad Badī’, a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, on their front cover. The Church was outraged by its publication...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 29, 2020
The Revolutionary Socialists movement, the opposition in Egypt, rejected the Supreme Administrative Court’s decision to ban female faculty members at Cairo University from wearing the niqāb, emphasizing that this rule is an attempt to establish the state control over the body and is the latest...
Date of source: Monday, December 30, 2019
Danny Danon, Israel’s UN representative, has called the New York Times to punish for the publication of an "anti-Semitic" cartoon, despite formal apologies from the newspaper and the drawing’s removal from NYT web-site.
The political cartoon was published last Thursday in the international print...
Date of source: Thursday, September 26, 2019
The Arab Publishers Association announced its solidarity and support for writer Kamila Shamsie, who was recently awarded the Nelly Sachs prize from Germany. Shamsie, who is British with Pakistani roots, was awarded the reward for her novels, which “building bridges between societies.” However,...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 25, 2019
A number of human rights organizations released a joint statement, expressing their concern about the increase of arrests and detainments throughout Egypt after the protests on September 20th. The organizations stated that operations to kidnap and arbitrarily detain protesters, activists, lawyers...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 7, 2019
In the wake of increased incidents related to Islamophobia, the current British government, under the control of the conservative party, is trying to figure out a way to define Islamophobia, after rejecting the APPG's proposed definition, in order to meet the practical and legal challenges facing...
Date of source: Sunday, June 2, 2019
The routine of Egyptian blogger and political dissident ʿAlāʾ ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ, consists of being released from prison in the morning only to return at the end of the day. ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ, was released from prison last March but will be subjected to severe surveillance by the state for the next five...
Date of source: Saturday, July 6, 2019
A research paper by ‘The Arab Network for Human Rights Information’ found that news of the death of former Egyptian president Muḥammad Mursī constituted a “scandal for Egyptian media.”
Date of source: Monday, April 22, 2019
Some predicted the possibility of a military clash between the Sudanese Transitional Council and the Revolutionary Forces, which recently suspended negotiations with the Council of Baran.
In the last few hours, the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) in Sudan decided to escalate with the...