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As part of Egypt’s efforts to modernize legislation regulating family relations, the new draft Personal Status Law for the Muslim family, submitted by the government to the House of Representatives, includes a set of regulations aimed at achieving a balance between the rights and duties of both...
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Al-Azhar al-Sharīf vehemently condemns the terrorist attack that was carried out by two armed extremists incited by hate speech against Islam. The gunmen targeted the Islamic Center in San Diego, California and killed three worshippers at the mosque as well as the mosque’s guard. This brutal attack...
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MP Maḥmūd Sāmī, a member of the House of Representatives, confirmed that the new Personal Status Law submitted by the government to the Parliament has not been discussed yet to allow sufficient opportunity to carefully study its provisions to limit societal controversy. During a phone interview...
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The new personal status law for Christians clarified the issues related to the impediments to marriage. It prohibited marriage between ascendants and descendants, no matter the lineage between them, as well as between the offspring of brothers and sisters, in addition to paternal and maternal...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Atheism has been included in the new draft law on personal status for Christians as one of the reasons for the annulment of marriage. The draft has taken a decisive step towards enactment following the cabinet's approval, paving the way for its referral to the House of Representatives and...
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Bishop Būlā of Ṭanṭā and its dependencies and a representative of the Coptic Church in the committee drafting the Personal Status Law for Christians clarified details regarding cases of marriage annulment. He stressed that the main objective of marriage is to form a family, which requires the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
With the recent cabinet approval of the draft Personal Status Law for Christians to be passed to parliament for debate and approval, controversy was sparked over its ability to address existing crises and achieve a balance between judicial rulings and the visions of different churches. Lawyer...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Bishop Būlā of the Coptic Orthodox Church explained his recent statements that about 40% of the articles of the draft Personal Status Law for Christians were in agreement with the Islamic Sharīʿa, which have sparked widespread controversy. "There has been some misunderstanding of my statement. What...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
In a move aimed at tightening the regulation of marriage procedures for Christian denominations, Article 14 of the draft Personal Status Law for Christians set a clear legal framework for documenting the marriage contract, precisely specifying the data and procedures that must be available to...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Coptic Orthodox Bishop Būlā of Ṭanṭā and its dependencies revealed that men and women will be equal in inheritance in accordance with the new draft Personal Status Law for Christians, which is in agreement with the Holy Bible. "Regarding inheritance, we stick to the text of the constitution stating...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Anbā Bākhūm, the Patriarchal Auxiliary for the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Patriarchal Diocese Affairs, said the cabinet’s approval of the unified draft law on personal status for Christians was an "important step" towards regulating family affairs in a manner taking into consideration the particular...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Christina ʿImād, who had been reported missing since Tuesday, returned to her family after being missing since Tuesday (April 21) in al-Maʿṣara area, ​​Ḥilwān district, southern Cairo. She was received back safely amid utmost joy following days of anxiety and anticipation. Her family expressed...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
A cabinet meeting held on Wednesday (April 29) approved the draft of the Personal Status Law for Muslims, which introduced procedures for the first time to regulate the system of personal status for Muslims in implementation of directives by President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī to expedite the referral...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
A Coptic figure revealed that Egypt is preparing to issue the first Personal Status Law for Christians in its history, noting there has been no law regulating the personal status of Christians since the time of Islamic ruler ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ. "The law aims to unify the legal framework among six...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
The International Conference "Alexandria and the West: Church History and Geography," which took place between 24 and 26 April 2026 in the conference hall of the Patriarchal Library, was concluded successfully in Alexandria. In the presence of Theodore II, the Patriarch of Alexandria and the Rest...
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Translator Margarita Louisa Yanez
Prime Minister Muṣṭafa Madbūlī held a meeting on Thursday (April 16) to follow up on draft laws regulating personal status affairs for both Muslims and Christians, as well as the draft law on the Family Support Fund. Madbūlī highlighted directives from President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī to accelerate...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Bishop Bākhūm, the Patriarchal Auxiliary for Catholic Patriarchal Diocese Affairs, affirmed that statements regarding the Personal Status Law for Christians will only be issued through newspapers and media outlets accredited by the Church. "The Catholic Church participated in the committee drafting...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Yūsuf Ṭalʿat, the legal advisor to the Coptic Evangelical Church, said the draft Personal Status Law for Christians has set precise conditions for conducting a second marriage, considering it to be one of the most sensitive issues within the church community. "Obtaining a divorce ruling allows one...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
The Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, issued a decision assigning Shaykh Ayman ʿAbd al-Ghanī, Head of al-Azhar Institutes Sector, to manage the financial and administrative tasks of al-Azhar undersecretary, pending the appointment of a new one in accordance with the procedures specified...
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Date of Publication: Thursday, August 1, 2013
  This report was commissioned by the German organization, Missio, in 2004. It was never published because we encountered difficulties in obtaining additional information on various legal issues and application of the law due to insufficient funding for quality legal experts. We have a strong network and have also used this in our efforts to
Date of Publication: Sunday, June 9, 2013
We often hear about the radical statements and fatwás of Muslims and about uncompromising Christian or secular activists who can appeal to populist sentiments and mistrust of the ‘other’. A major problem is that they also often refer to religious texts, which pours oil on the fire of the feelings of those who believe that particular religions are
Date of Publication: Wednesday, May 15, 2013
One of the distinguishing sub-themes of the Egyptian revolution which began on January 25, 2011, has been the proliferation of Coptic movements. Largely, though not entirely, contained in the church during the Mubarak era, Christian Egyptians joined their Muslim counterparts as ‘one hand’ to challenge the authority for the sake of ‘freedom, bread
Date of Publication: Thursday, May 2, 2013
This report is on the formation of the Egyptian Constitution of 2012 and was commissioned by the German organization Missio who translated it into German for publication in Germany.  The processes of how the Constituent Assembly was formed is described and discussions about the content of this Constitution from both liberal and Islamist
Date of Publication: Saturday, December 8, 2012
In 1995, the Dutch Christian organization Open Doors asked me to look into the stories of Christian girls in Egypt being kidnapped by Muslims and being forced to convert to Islam. I contacted human rights lawyer Maurice Ṣādiq, who has repeatedly defended such claims. I also contacted clergy and church workers in Cairo, Alexandria, and Upper Egypt
Date of Publication: Monday, October 22, 2012
Cornelis Hulsman was asked to speak about Matthew 25:35-36, where Jesus said “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,” in the light of his work for Arab-West Report in Egypt. Hulsman explained this verse applies to all our neighbors, Christian,
Date of Publication: Tuesday, July 31, 2012
This book was first published in 2012 by CIDT in Arabic. It was later translated into English, expanded with texts of Nushin Atmaca and Patricia Prentice and edited by Cornelis Hulsman with help of Jenna Ferrecchia and Douglas May. The expanded book was published by Tectum Verlag, Academic publishers in Germany. They also hold the copyright to the
Date of Publication: Wednesday, June 20, 2012
This paper expands upon earlier work published in Arab-West Report by Dutch Arabists Eildert Mulder and Thomas Milo on the contested earliest sources of Islam.1 Mulder and Milo illustrate that critical scholarship has cast doubt on the historicity of the hadīth and biographies  and  because  other  sources  are  scant,  little  is  known  for 
Date of Publication: Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Dr. Michael Wahid Hanna of the Century Foundation (US), one of the speakers during the Henriette van Lynden lecture of June 11, organized by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was asked by Cornelis Hulsman for the source of his estimated percentage of Christians in Egypt, 10% in 1950 and 10% in 2014. Hulsman commented that it is generally
Date of Publication: Wednesday, May 9, 2012
The Commission of the Bishop’s Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) in Brussels invited Cornelis Hulsman to present on the position of Christians in Egypt on May 9 in Brussels, Belgium. The presentation is part of a seminar on “Christians in the Arab World: One year after the Arab Spring,” organized by COMECE in cooperation with the EPP
Date of Publication: Sunday, March 11, 2012
The majority of articles containing Coptic population figures were not published in several major English-language newspapers until after 1956. Articles in newspapers such as the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Toronto Star illustrate the varying tendencies of journalists in their presentation of figures.  In comparison to the CAPMAS
Date of Publication: Monday, December 19, 2011
It is the time before the presidential elections. Egypt is in the middle of a possible transitional period and a mostly transitional mood. Since I arrived in Cairo in October 2011, people were highly politicized (which does not mean full of revolutionary thoughts) and most of them still are. It was then that I heard for the first time the
Date of Publication: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Earlier this year, Egyptian Coptic intellectual Dr. Rafīq Samuel Habīb was named as the vice president of Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party -the newly founded political party of the Muslim Brotherhood. Already one of the most controversial figures in Egyptian society, Habīb's appointment as the deputy leader of Egypt's nascent Islamist party
Date of Publication: Wednesday, October 26, 2011
October 9 witnessed riots in Cairo that led to the death of at least twenty-seven people and the injury of over 300, mostly from Egypt’s Coptic Christian community. The conflict followed a peaceful march from the neighborhood of Shubra, with its high percentage of Coptic residents, to the Radio and TV Building in Maspero, which has become the
Date of Publication: Saturday, October 22, 2011
This report provides critical background and previously unpublished details on the events leading up to the protests by Copts in Maspero, Cairo on October 9, 2011, which ended fatally for more than 20 protesters and injured over 100 others.  It provides interviews, photographs, videos, and documents, as evidence of the circumstances in the village
Date of Publication: Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Christopher D. Marshall spent one month in the Bishopric of Shubra al-Khayma, a suburb of Cairo, to gather information about Coptic Orthodox migration.  With him he brought a series of interview questions with which he hoped would uncover the methods of data collection used in the Shubra al-Khayma.  Bishop Marcos designated Father Youssef as
Date of Publication: Monday, August 29, 2011
  Review of Elizabeth Edward’s “Coptic Orthodox statistics and migration in Maghagha” This work builds upon the report "Report on church response to poverty in Egypt" and delves into the issue of poverty and migration. What number of  the poor are bishops responsible to provide care for?  The basis of the report comes from field work in Maghāghah
Date of Publication: Monday, May 23, 2011
Sanne Lundberg’s thesis was about the strong Coptic Christian perception of being discriminated, the interplay of this belief with religious beliefs, as well as their response to the perceived discriminating social system in Egypt. This research was thus not an investigation about whether these perceptions are correct or not but about perceptions
Date of Publication: Thursday, February 10, 2011
According to the Pew Research Center, US media attention for the Egyptian protests has exceeded every foreign policy story over the last four years, commanding 56% of all news coverage. While initially surprising, upon reflection this story hits at the conjunction of many popular flashpoints: Israel, Islam, and popular democratic movements. It
Date of Publication: Thursday, February 10, 2011
  The attack on worshippers in an Alexandria church in Egypt on January 1, 2011 marks a lowpoint in relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt. Never before in modern Egyptian history have extremists tried to kill as many worshippers as possible in a suicide attack. Earlier clashes were often related to extreme responses to local tensions

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Date of source: Wednesday, February 19, 2014
By: BBC News
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The Foreign Office said British nationals should avoid "all but essential travel" to the region.
Date of source: Thursday, February 13, 2014
By: Reuters
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(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday threw his weight behind a presidential bid by Egyptian Army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, voicing hope that ties would strengthen after the election.
Date of source: Thursday, January 30, 2014
By: The Arabist
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Jehane Noujaim's documentary The Square has been short-listed for the Oscar, is now available on Netflix, and recently won her an Directors' Guil
Date of source: Thursday, October 31, 2013
By: World Review
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EGYPT is struggling with an internal and violent political and social conflict which will continue to undermine domestic stability.
Date of source: Saturday, February 8, 2014
By: Reuters
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(Reuters) - Egyptian leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi announced on Saturday he would be running for the presidency in a forthcoming election, enlivening a race that army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is widely expected to win.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 4, 2014
By: Hoover Institution
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The fall of the Mubarak regime in February 2011 unleashed a monumental and contagious wave of optimism. Images of Christians and Muslims holding hands in Tahrir Square were broadcast around the world and gave credence to the narrative that a new more liberal and democratic Egypt was being born.
Date of source: Friday, February 7, 2014
By: Forbes
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Before the 2012 Egyptian presidential elections, dozens of Muslim Brotherhood members were dispatched to the US and Europe. They presented a picture that interlocutors could identify with. They were young, western-educated and articulate.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 5, 2014
By: Irin News
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CAIRO, 5 March 2014 (IRIN) - The seven months since July’s overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt have been among the most violent and divisive in recent times, analysts say, as much of society polarizes along pro-Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and pro-army lines. 
Date of source: Thursday, January 9, 2014
By: Brookings Institution
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Date of source: Tuesday, January 28, 2014
By: Brookings Institution
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By: Shadi Hamid
Date of source: Thursday, February 20, 2014
By: Brookings Institution
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Date of source: Tuesday, March 11, 2014
By: Haaretz
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By The Associated Press| Mar. 11, 2014 | 6:40 PM The deputy head of Egypt's dwindling Jewish community was buried Tuesday in a ceremony led by her sister.
Date of source: Monday, February 24, 2014
By: Middle East Research and Information Project
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by Joshua Stacher | published February 24, 2014 - 5:21pm
Date of source: Monday, February 3, 2014
By: Washington Post
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This video, aired by Egypt's al-Tahrir, shows two journalists with Al Jazeera English.
Date of source: Monday, March 10, 2014
By: Washington Post
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The growing number of people held by Egyptian authorities as part of a frenzied campaign to crush opposition to the military-backed government has squeezed the country’s already broken criminal justice system, leading to widespread legal and human rights abuses by security forces, prosecutors and
Date of source: Sunday, March 9, 2014
By: ABC News
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Gunmen killed a police officer Friday in northern Egypt who worked as a guard for a judge hearing a case against the country's ousted president as his supporters held scattered demonstrations that saw one person killed, authorities said.
Date of source: Saturday, February 22, 2014
By: Middle East Online
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Election of first female as head of political party in Egypt brings flicker of hope for women across country. CAIRO – The election of the first female as a head of a political party in Egypt brought a flicker of hope for women across the country on Friday.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 25, 2014
By: Daily News Egypt
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Al-Azhar and the Coptic Church Tuesday condemned the recent killing of seven Egyptian Copts in Western Libya, with the church calling for a hasty arrest of the “terrorists” responsible.
Date of source: Thursday, February 27, 2014
By: openDemocracy
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Mina Fayek [1] 27 February 2014
Date of source: Tuesday, January 1, 2013
By: Jihad Watch
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Random attacks on Egypt's Christian Copts continue growing, including with very little motive -- other than hate, that is.

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