Date of source: Saturday, November 9, 2013
By: christianpost
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Said Abdel Massih, head of the Egyptian Center for Development and Human Rights (ECDHR), has called on the 50-member committee tasked with amending the 2012 Egyptian constitution to allocate a quota for Copts in parliament in an effort to quell sectarian strife and provide added representation an
Date of source: Friday, November 8, 2013
By: openDemocracy
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In this follow-up interview with leading member of the Revolutionary Socialists in Egypt, Sameh Naguib, we talk about Al-Sisi's Egypt, the new alliance around the general, what challenges face opposition parties and movements and the future of Tahrir Square ( long interview, October 24, 2013)
Date of source: Saturday, November 16, 2013
By: csmonitor
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Supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi have made their first formal proposal at negotiations with Egypt's military-backed government. Islamists leaders have called for the release of detainees, and an end to the crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood.
Date of source: Friday, November 15, 2013
By: jihadwatch
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The mainstream media habitually runs interference for jihadists, obfuscating their identity and goals, and under-reporting the atrocities they commit. This article is a particularly egregious example.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 30, 2013
By: nytimes
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CAIRO — Egyptian security forces on Wednesday captured Essam el-Erian, one of the last few prominent leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood still at large after a crackdown that began with the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, another of the group’s leaders.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 22, 2013
By: Your Middle East
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One of the things that characterises Cairo is its chaotic traffic and the constant noise of horns as cars try to snake through the streets. The backseats of Cairo’s taxis is where the film‘Another Night on Earth’ takes place.
Date of source: Monday, October 21, 2013
By: PRESS RELEASE
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Cairo: — Beba Misdemeanor Court, in Beni Suef governorate, will consider tomorrow, 22 October, the second session of the appeal against the unfair judgment of five-year imprisonment that lodged by the author and human rights activist Karam Saber on account of the accusation of contempt of religio
Date of source: Thursday, October 24, 2013
By: smudailycampus
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Who are you? What do you believe in? And what do you stand for? In America we are never faced with such inquiries nor do we have to worry about them. However in countries throughout the Middle East one’s own life depends on the answer to these very questions.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 29, 2013
By: egyptindependent
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About this time last week, the bodies were being ferried into the Virgin Mary Church where they had been shot barely 24 hours before, a grim liminal irony that - as some pointed out - turned a wedding into a funeral in the space of two days.
Date of source: Monday, November 18, 2013
By: memri
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Egypt's Committee of 50, charged with drafting the new Egyptian constitution, received delegations of various sectors of the population, such as war veterans, Nubians, the disabled, and Copts.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 17, 2013
By: christianpost
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Coptic Christians have reacted with nervous relief to the Egyptian military's pushback of the Christian-persecuting Islamist rebels who had taken over Dalga.
Date of source: Saturday, November 16, 2013
By: Associated Press
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There is no sign of the hundreds of thousands of Christian pilgrims who flock here every November. No tattoo artists inscribing crosses on the wrists of babies or images of saints on the arms of young men. No stalls selling crosses, icons or pillows embroidered with portraits of patriarchs.
Date of source: Thursday, November 14, 2013
By: jadaliyya
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When Mohamed Salmawi, the spokesman for the committee appointed to draft Egypt’s post-coup constitution, appeared before the press on 29 October, the message was clear. There would be no place for Article 219 in the new constitution, and there would be no further discussion.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 1, 2013
By: thenation
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Precious few political parties have spoken out against the military or its assault on the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Date of source: Wednesday, August 14, 2013
By: fairobserver
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Anyone who thinks military rule bends toward democracy in Egypt has misread the country's history.
Date of source: Monday, November 25, 2013
By: ANS
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CAIRO, EGYPT (ANS) -- Three months after the Egyptian Army liberated Delga from militant Muslims, Islamists and criminals are terrorizing Christians in other towns across Egyp
Date of source: Friday, November 15, 2013
By: copts
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CAIRO — Egypt’s constitution is being rewritten by a small group appointed by the military-backed government, overhauling the previous, Islamist-driven charter.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 23, 2013
By: lignet
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Among all the ultra-orthodox Muslim organizations, the one that seemed most likely to take over many of the countries involved in the Arab Spring was the Muslim Brotherhood, due to its lengthy history and organizational skills.
Date of source: Friday, November 15, 2013
By: globalsecurity
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The trial of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi that is set to begin November 4 is expected to heighten political divisions in the volatile nation and test the credibility of Egypt's judicial system.
Date of source: Monday, October 21, 2013
By: Reuters.com
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian Coptic Christians joyfully waited outside the Virgin Church in Cairo for the bride to arrive to join the groom for their wedding.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 22, 2013
By: ncregister
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CAIRO — Moderate Egyptians have spoken against the continuation of anti-Christian violence after a drive-by shooting targeted a wedding party at a Coptic Orthodox church in Cairo on Oct. 20.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 2, 2013
By: english.dohainstitute
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The July 3 coup that removed Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi from power represents a pivotal moment in the history of the Muslim Brotherhood not just because of the coup’s implications for the organizational and political structure of the Brotherhood, but also because it happened just one year
Date of source: Wednesday, November 20, 2013
By: The Hill
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Conversations with senior Egyptian officials indicate that Washington should focus on preserving its strategically important geopolitical
interests, not on using aid suspensions to influence the country's domestic politics.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 19, 2013
By: Reuter site
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of Egyptians gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday to commemorate the deaths of protesters killed
two years ago and call for reforms, with many in the crowd calling for the power of the security forces to be curbed.
Date of source: Monday, October 28, 2013
By: Reuters.com
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - In Egypt's second city, medical
student Ahmed Nabil lives in fear that the police may come and
arrest him any day. As a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, he is
Date of source: Monday, June 11, 2012
By: isn.ethz
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This paper analyzes the ‘Coptic question’ in contemporary debate, underlining the political relations between the Christian community and the political institutions of Egypt, its varied composition, the intra-communal cleavages or factionalism.
Date of source: Thursday, November 14, 2013
By: carnegieendowment
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The Egyptian Orthodox Christian community—the Copts—has been the target of violence and discrimination since the 1970s and especially following the revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak.
Date of source: Friday, October 18, 2013
By: firstpost
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Cairo: Thousands of supporters of Egypt's deposed President Mohamed Mursi protested in Cairo
on Friday, shouting slogans against army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who removed him on
July 3.
Date of source: Thursday, November 14, 2013
By: blogs.cfr
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When I heard that Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his colleague Sergei Shoigu, the defense minister, were to visit Cairo, I dusted off my copies of Mohammed Hassanein Heikal’s The Sphinx and the Commissar and Soviet Policy Toward the Middle East since 1970 by Robert O
Date of source: Friday, October 11, 2013
By: enca
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CAIRO - Egyptian security forces failed to stop revenge attacks against Coptic Christians after a deadly crackdown on supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in August, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 6, 2013
By: memri
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On October 9, 2013, the U.S. administration announced a freeze of the economic aid and part of the
military aid to Egypt. The State Department said that following instructions from President Obama, it was
Date of source: Monday, December 2, 2013
By: gatestoneinstitute
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The same month that Obama tried to wage war on behalf of the jihadi rebels in Syria (citing "human rights" concerns), some of the war's worst atrocities were committed against that nation's Christian minority, most notably in Ma'loula, an ancient Christian region where the inhabitants spoke Arama
Date of source: Monday, December 2, 2013
By: rightsidenews
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"We shall come for you…you are polluting our religion." — Note apparently from al-Shebaab, Somalia
"It seems great crackdowns on churches and extraordinary waves of arrest of Iranian pastors and Christian converts have not been effective." — Mohabat News, Iran
Date of source: Wednesday, December 4, 2013
By: bpnews
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CAIRO (BP) -- Islamic extremists and criminals are extorting Christians in Egyptian towns, while trouble brews over the country's new protest law and constitution.
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Date of source: Friday, November 29, 2013
By: AKI
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Minya, 29 Nov. (AKI) - Three people were killed and several injured in clashes between minority Coptic Christians and Muslims in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya, daily Al-Ahram reported Friday.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 4, 2013
By: MENA
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Security forces in Minya have arrested a correspondent working for an American TV channel, accusing him of inciting sectarian strife and broadcasting false news, state-owned news agency MENA reported.
Date of source: Thursday, December 5, 2013
By: cbn
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Bishoy Armiya, Egypt's most famous Christian convert from Islam, has been arrested by national security forces.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 27, 2013
By: b.3cdn
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This poll represents the third time since May 2013 that we have conducted a nationwide survey of Egyptian
public opinion. It has been a momentous and tumultuous time for Egypt. During this period our polling has
Date of source: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
By: Reuters
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Young Egyptian Islamists seeking a way to confront the military-led state are turning to the ideas of a radical ideologue who waged the same struggle half a century ago and later became a source of inspiration for al Qaeda.
Date of source: Saturday, November 23, 2013
By: El Youm El Sabaa
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Political activists in Egypt vary according to gender. The male activist is unemployed, soft and effeminate, with long hair that is either braided or disheveled, and he wears a bracelet and a Palestinian keffiyeh.