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Is it Religiously Allowed to Demolish Illegally Built Mosques? Ministry of Endowments and Dār al-Iftāʾ Answer
Date of source: 30 Aug 2020
By Karīm Abū Zayd
Regarding the controversy after the demolition of 30 illegally built mosques for the sake of establishing al-Maḥmūdiyya Axis, al-Sīsī indicated that as of now there are 77 illegally built mosques on the al-Maḥmūdiyya Canal grounds.  He confirmed that the Egyptian state will continue to demolish...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Ordination Ritual for Coptic Orthodox Nuns
Date of source: 6 Sep 2020
By Muṣṭafā Raḥūma (Mostafa Rahouma)
The Coptic Orthodox Church is distinguished by its religious rituals in ordaining nuns, whose rituals resemble the monk’s ordination ones.  Nuns go through three stages in the monastery: reluctance, request for monastic life, and finally ordination into the monastic life.  They also commit to...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
A Survey of the Path of the Holy Family
Date of source: 7 Sep 2020
By Kamāl Jāb Allāh
This plan is based on developing and raising the capacity of monasteries, caves, and all points that the Holy Family passed through in Egypt by establishing a new infrastructure to connect the entire path together. The relevant authorities began preparing to present its portfolio to UNESCO to...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Governorate of al-Minyā Denies the Demolition of al-Fatḥ Mosque in Dafsh Village at the Center of Samāllūt
Date of source: 7 Sep 2020
By Saʿīd Nāfiʿ
Major General Usāma al-Qāḍī, governor of al-Minyā, called on everyone to vet the accuracy of what is published on social media and to not get carried away with rumors intending to spread chaos. The governorate confirmed that al-Fatḥ Mosque was established over 35 years ago, and has been undergoing...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Films and Television Shows Rejected by the Coptic Orthodox Church
Date of source: 7 Oct 2020
By Muṣṭafā Raḥūma (Mostafa Rahouma)
One main reason is the films’ portrayal of modern Coptic life.  In 2004, Egyptian TV backed off on showing the series Girl from Shubra [Bint Min Shubrā], starring Laylā ʿIlwī, during Ramadan, because the Christian heroine of the show professes her faith in Islam.  That same year, the film I Love...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Grand Mufti Meets American Delegation to Discuss Combating Extremism
Date of source: 7 Oct 2020
By Luʾay ʿAlī‎
ʿAllām said that the Dār al-Iftāʾ was established in 2014 as the Observatory of Takfiri Fatwas and Extremist Views, and has been working around the clock to gather all fatwas and views issued by extremist group and dismantle, refute, and respond to them with a precise methodology and various...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
Pope Shinūda in Film…Allowed for the Church, Forbidden for Production Studios
Date of source: 7 Oct 2020
By Muṣṭafā Raḥūma (Mostafa Rahouma)
In 2016, controversy erupted when the El Adl Group [al-ʿAdl Group] announced that it would be producing a TV show about the life of Pope Shinūda.  The role of Pope Shinūda would be played by Ḥassan Yūssuf, who previously played Shaykh Muḥammad Mitwallī al-Shaʿrāwī.  The Coptic Orthodox Church,...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
National Council for Human Rights Demands Solutions to Pre-Trial Detention Renewals without Ruling
Date of source: 8 Oct 2020
By Wāʾil ʿAlī
During its most recent meeting, the NCHR reviewed some cases where defendants face new accusations that were not brought up immediately after their arrest.  Pre-trial detention is then renewed after the completion of the legally stipulated time limit, which is two years according to the code of...
Reviewed by Dylan Schexnaydre
Translator Dylan Schexnaydre
No justice yet for “woman of Karam”…the sequence of events in her tragedy
Date of source: 27 Aug 2020
By Rūmānī Ṣabrī‎
The Minyā Criminal Court Authority originally dropped her case in March 2019. In 2016, three men in the village of al-Karam, Abū Qurqāṣ, al-Minyā, responded to rumors that Thābit’s son, Ashraf, was having an affair with a married Muslim woman by going to his house. When they did not find him, they...
Reviewed by Emma Scolding
Translator Emma Scolding
Report Finds: Egyptian State Violates Academic Freedoms
Date of source: 26 Jul 2020
By No Author Mentioned
Often research papers were suspended for political reasons. In one example a researcher at al-Azhar University in the department of Islamic Studies was forced to change her thesis subject after she had written about Islamic jurisprudential characterization of revolutions. In addition, the...
Reviewed by Marvin Mücke
Translator Marvin Mücke

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