Date of source: Thursday, May 22, 2014
By: Foreign Policy
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Meet the man crazy enough to run for president against the new strongman in Cairo.
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Date of source: Monday, April 28, 2014
By: csis
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Many of you know Minister Fahmy from his nine years as ambassador to Washington,
from 1999 to 2008. He is a native New Yorker, having been born there when his father was
Date of source: Friday, September 5, 2014
By: fikraforum
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On July 19, an Egyptian security post in the heart of the Western Desert was ambushed, leaving 22 soldiers dead. For weeks, the Egyptian government and press were concerned with who carried it out.
Date of source: Saturday, September 13, 2014
By: GulfNews
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The recent failure of the Muslim Brotherhood to stay in power despite its success in Egypt’s first ever democratic election is in itself quite telling
Date of source: Tuesday, September 16, 2014
By: news24
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Cairo - A couple hundred Christian protesters clashed with police in southern Egypt after holding a demonstration on Tuesday in front of a police station demanding authorities locate an abducted housewife, a security official said.
Date of source: Sunday, September 7, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
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Egyptians are busy with a controversial religious edict [fatwa] issued by the Fatwa Secretariat of Egypt’s Dar al-Ifta.
Date of source: Monday, August 25, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
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Parliamentary elections, which are being prepared in Egypt now, consist of the third and last milestone in the “road map” that was declared by the armed forces when former President Mohammed Morsi was ousted.
Date of source: Monday, July 1, 2013
By: foreignaffairs
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In 2011, it took several rounds of protests before the chanting on the Egyptian street for “bread, freedom, and social justice” morphed into “down with the regime.” This time, the demonstrators had that goal in mind all along.
Date of source: Friday, September 5, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
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CAIRO — Egypt was recently accused by the United States of carrying out airstrikes in Libya in alliance with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a charge that was soon dropped.
Date of source: Thursday, September 18, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
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CAIRO — Egypt’s government has launched a new movement against Salafist figures in the country, in line with its policy to manage mosques and marginalize preachers affiliated with certain religious political groups.
Date of source: Sunday, September 21, 2014
By: dailynewsegypt
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Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organization (EUHRO) head Nagib Gabriel is slated to hold a conference with President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi to discuss the situation facing Christians in Egypt following the beating and detainment of Copts in Al-Minya.
Date of source: Monday, August 18, 2014
By: albawaba
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Released in May of this year, Copts Island (Jazeerat Al-Akbat), is a documentary directed by Ahmed Rashwan in which the filmmaker traces the journey of today's Coptic Christians.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 16, 2014
By: madamasr
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“You’re going to pay means you’re going to pay,” President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on the day of the new Suez Canal project’s inauguration.
His statement was directed at businessmen as well as average citizens, urging them to donate to the Tahya Masr (Long Live Egypt) fund.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 23, 2014
By: aina
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Wadi Ramsis, a Coptic doctor who was kidnapped in Sinai two months ago was released Monday after "payment of large sums of [ransom] money," said authorities.
Date of source: Friday, September 12, 2014
By: pm
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper today visited the newly-built St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Markham with His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark.
Date of source: Sunday, September 21, 2014
By: catholicregister
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Sidrak was elected Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria January 15, 2013. A youthful, 59-year-old theologian who studied at Rome’s Gregorian University, he leads a minority within Egypt’s Christian minority. He’s trying to find a way to stand firmly on shifting ground.
Date of source: Friday, August 15, 2014
By: thetablet
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The situation of Coptic Christians in Egypt has improved since the 2013 military overthrow of Islamist President, Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.
This is the finding of a report that appeared on the website of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem on 7 August.
Date of source: Sunday, September 21, 2014
By: REUTERS
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An Egyptian court upheld death sentences on Saturday against five people convicted of charges including killing a policeman and carrying weapons, judicial sources said.
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Date of source: Saturday, September 27, 2014
By: Reuters
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(Reuters) - An Egyptian court postponed to Nov. 29 its verdict on whether former president Hosni Mubarak ordered the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his three-decade rule.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 2, 2014
By: ansamed
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(ANSAmed) - ROME, JULY 2 - Egypt's new Coptic Catholic Patriarch, Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, has stated in an interview with Terrasanta.net that there is the risk of a civil war breaking out, noting that the main problem was the formation of a new leadership class.
Date of source: Saturday, September 27, 2014
By: Reuters
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An Egyptian court postponed to Nov. 29 its verdict on whether former president Hosni Mubarak ordered the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his three-decade rule.
Date of source: Thursday, September 18, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
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CAIRO — Egypt’s youth, particularly the revolutionary youth, are unable to independently finance their campaigns in the parliamentary elections scheduled by the end of this year.
Date of source: Thursday, September 18, 2014
By: theguardian
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President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi is not afraid to use faith to push the state's narrative – but the climate and the rhetoric have cooled.
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Date of source: Tuesday, September 16, 2014
By: The Associated Press
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CAIRO (AP) - A security official says a couple hundred Christian protesters clashed with police in southern Egypt after holding a demonstration in front of a police station demanding authorities locate an abducted housewife.
Date of source: Saturday, September 27, 2014
By: The Associated Press
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CAIRO — A couple hundred Christian protesters clashed with police in southern Egypt after holding a demonstration on Tuesday in front of a police station demanding authorities locate an abducted housewife, a security official said.
Date of source: Friday, September 26, 2014
By: Al-Monitor
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The unified houses of worship law, which regulates the construction of mosques and churches in Egypt, is still waiting for the parliament’s approval.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 24, 2014
By: washingtoninstitute
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The Muslim Brotherhood spent 84 years toiling in Egypt's opposition before winning power in June 2012 only to lose it 369 days later. It has been all downhill for the group since then.
Date of source: Sunday, September 28, 2014
By: clarionproject
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The Muslim Brotherhood is claiming that the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS) is a secret puppet of the U.S. for the purpose of waging a war on Islam. The propaganda places blame for all ISIS activity away from the Islamist ideology it shares with the Brotherhood and onto the U.S.
Date of source: Thursday, September 25, 2014
By: janes
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Egypt has entered into an agreement to buy S-300VM long-range air defence systems for about USD500 million from Russia, the Russian business daily Vedomostireported on 23 September, citing unidentified defence industry officials and a source close to the leadership of the state arms expo
Date of source: Tuesday, November 5, 2013
By: The Atlantic
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There is zero chance he gets acquitted. Forget the protests. Forget the procedural twists and turns. That's all you need to know about deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's trial, which began on Monday in a heavily fortified police academy just outside of Cairo.
Date of source: Sunday, September 28, 2014
By: dailynewsegypt
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In a balcony that views “the endless sea of dirty brown satellite dishes,” the American writer Jason Stoneking’s conversation with Egyptian artist Hany Hommos inspired him to start a new project.
Date of source: Thursday, September 25, 2014
By: english.ahram
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Three blocks in the Western Desert and Mediterranean should help Egypt cope with rising energy demands
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Date of source: Tuesday, September 30, 2014
By: mcndirect
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The Armant Misdemeanor Appeal Court in Luxor (Upper Egypt) confirmed the sentence the first-degree court against a young Coptic Christian man named Kyrillos Shawki, who was accused of contempt of Islam for stirring sectarian strife. He was sentenced to six years in prison and 6,000 EGP bail.
Date of source: Monday, September 29, 2014
By: mcndirect
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The Copts of Al-Qusiya city, Assuit (Upper Egypt) appealed to President Sisi and the Interior Minister to save them from the criminals who force financial royalties on them.
Date of source: Thursday, July 3, 2014
By: National Review Online, The Corner
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Egyptians took to the streets in numbers never seen anywhere, ever on June 30, 2013 to protest against their Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi. Three days later, Defense Minister Abdul Fattah al-Sisi responded to this outpouring by overthrowing Morsi.
Date of source: Monday, September 29, 2014
By: mcndirect
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According to the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence, there are 300 Egyptian jihadists in the ranks of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (IS), the Los Angeles Times reported.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 30, 2014
By: mcndirect
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Martha Saeed, the mother of a child kidnapped four years ago is asking President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to intervene to bring her daughter back.
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Date of source: Wednesday, October 1, 2014
By: mcndirect
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Coptic Solidarity released a statement on Tuesday condemning The Working Group on Egypt’s letter to President Obama.
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Date of source: Tuesday, September 30, 2014
By: mcndirect
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Lawyer Samir Nazer, a member of the Coptic Christian family called Agoura in Al-Shamiya village, Assiut (Upper Egypt), said, “We appealed on Monday to the President of the Republic, the Minister of Interior, the Attorney General, and the Assiut director of security because a group of thugs led
Date of source: Friday, October 3, 2014
By: danielpipes
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Former air marshal Husni Mubarak, now 86, had ruled Egypt for 30 years when his military colleagues forced him from office in 2011. Three years and many upheavals later, those same colleagues replaced his successor with retired field marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, 59.