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Date of source: 2 Dec 2012
The Egyptian churches reiterated rejection of the draft constitution voted in the absence of representatives of civil parties and movements as well as the church, adding the churches’ position emanated from public will and coordination with all groups in the face of a hastily-written constitution...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 2 Dec 2012
The Egyptian churches reiterated rejection of the draft constitution voted in the absence of representatives of civil parties and movements as well as the church, adding the churches’ position emanated from public will and coordination with all groups in the face of a hastily-written constitution...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 2 Dec 2012
The Egyptian churches reiterated rejection of the draft constitution voted in the absence of representatives of civil parties and movements as well as the church.
The churches, who had come together on rejecting the final draft constitution by a constituent assembly, said they would not seek any...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 2 Dec 2012
Rajā’ī al-Mirghanī, a coordinator of the National Coalition for the Freedom of the Press and the Media, warned of loose drafting of an article on the establishment of a national press organization in the final draft constitution, adding the incumbent minister of information, Ṣalāh ʿAbd al-Maqṣūd,...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 2 Dec 2012
The constitution, approved in the midst of a political standoff between the president and the judiciary, provides for basic protections against arbitrary detention and torture and for some economic rights but fails to end military trials of civilians or to protect freedom of expression and religion...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 2 Dec 2012
“This document, and the manner in which it has been adopted, will come as an enormous disappointment to many of the Egyptians who took to the streets to oust Ḥusnī Mubārak and demand their rights,” said Ḥasība Ḥāj Saḥrāwī, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 2 Dec 2012
They objected to the constitution-writing assembly itself, which they said was unrepresentative after liberal, secular and Christian members walked out. They objected to what they knew of the charter, which does not contain explicit protections for minority religions or women’s rights and which...
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Date of source: 2 Dec 2012
Former member of parliament Jamāl Zahrān said in 2007 the People’s Assembly (parliament) took four months to amend Article 34 of the constitution amidst debates, dialogues and objections, criticizing a vote over a whole constitution in one or two days as “void and illegitimate”. [Yāsmīn Salīm, al-...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 2 Dec 2012
It is hoped that Pope Tawāḍrūs II should not be a rehash of his predecessor, Pope Shinūda III, who passed away in March. For the sake of Egypt’s Copts and Muslims, the new patriarch must be Pope Tawāḍrūs II, not Pope Shenouda IV! [Yaḥyā Ḥasan ʿUmar, al-Misryūn, Dec. 2, p. 8] Read original text in...
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Date of source: 2 Dec 2012
Arabs must turn their eyes on Egypt and stand by this country that has been blessed by the three divine religions as Egypt was mentioned by name in the Old and New Testaments as well as the Qur’ān several times. [Mustafā al-Fiqī, al-Misrī al-Yawm, Dec. 2, p. 12] Read original text in Arabic
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Date of source: 2 Dec 2012
The State Council’s Administrative Court under Counselor Ḥasūna Tawfīq adjourned to the February 2 session a lawsuit filed by Nubian activist al-Rūbī Jumʿa, who seeks obliging the Minister of Information and the National Company for Satellites (NileSat) to launch a Nubian-language TV channel. [...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 2 Dec 2012
Cindy Lee Garcia, an actress who claimed that she was deceived into appearing in the film denigrating the Prophet Muhammad, which sparked large-scale outrage in the Arab and Muslim world, lost a lawsuit for the second time to force YouTube to remove the movie. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, Dec....
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Date of source: 1 Dec 2012
ورغم معارضة أغلبية زملائي وأصدقائي, ورغم أن عددا كبيرا من قيادات المنظمات الحقوقية طلبت مني الإنسحاب من المجلس, وكان رأيي أن قيادات التيار الإسلام السياسي تعرضوا للإعتقال والتعذيب والمحاكمات العسكرية وإنتهكت حقوقهم ولهذا فإنهم سوف يكونون في مقدمة صفوف المدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان وسوف يساهمون في...
Date of source: 1 Dec 2012
وأعلن الغريانى أن هيئة مكتب الجمعية سوف تستمر فى العمل، حتى تنتهى من بعض الأمور الإدارية والمالية المتبقية. وكشف عن أنه سوف يجرى بعض التصويبات والتعديلات التى أدخلت أخيرا على المشروع، لطبعه فى صورته النهائية.وأوضح أن المشروع سيتم طرحه فى كتيب تطبعه وزارة الثقافة مع ديباجته، والأعمال التحضيرية،...
Date of source: 1 Dec 2012
النص الاصلى باللغه العربية
Date of source: 1 Dec 2012
أنقر هنا لقراءة النص كاملا
Date of source: 1 Dec 2012
أنقر هنا لقراءة النص كاملا
Date of source: 1 Dec 2012
أنقر هنا لقراءة النص كاملا
Date of source: 1 Dec 2012
Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director for Human Rights Watch, said Friday the document also fails to guarantee civil trials for civilians.
"The decision of Constituent Assembly leaders to move a flawed and contradictory draft to a vote is not the right way to guarantee fundamental...
Date of source: 1 Dec 2012
Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director for Human Rights Watch, said Friday the document also fails to guarantee civil trials for civilians.
"The decision of Constituent Assembly leaders to move a flawed and contradictory draft to a vote is not the right way to guarantee fundamental...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 1 Dec 2012
Among the publications that plan to join the strike are al-Misrī al-Yawm, al-Taḥrīr, al-Wafd, al-Waṭan, al-Yawm al-Sābiʿ, al-Fajr and al-Aḥrār.
Satellite channels that plan to temporarily cease broadcasting on Wednesday including ONTV, Dream TV and CBC. The administrations of al-Ḥayāt and al-Miḥwar...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 1 Dec 2012
President Mursī is receiving the draft of Egypt’s first post-revolution constitution from Counselor Husām al-Ghiryānī, Chairman of the Constituent Assembly, in the presence of the constitution-writing members. The president is expected to call the citizens for public referendum over the draft. [...
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Date of source: 1 Dec 2012
Coptic activists expressed “profound anger” over the announced final draft constitution and calls for referendum over it without the presence of any representatives of the churches on the panel. [Muḥammad Rabīʿ, al-Misryūn, Dec. 1, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 1 Dec 2012
Egyptian churches confirmed their withdrawal from the constituent assembly as Priest Angelus, Secretary of Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawāḍrūs II, said the church still sticks to its position about quitting the constitution panel, adding the president’s declaration is causing division among Egyptians. [...
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Date of source: 1 Dec 2012
The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), in its current status, does not go beyond what former President Ḥusnī Mubārak wanted it to be, an independent, but highly controlled, establishment, used only to beautify the regime’s appearance. [ʿAbd al-Ghaffār Shukr, al-Ahrām, Dec. 1, p. 10] Read...
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Date of source: 1 Dec 2012
The CAOA also urged activation of mentoring agencies in a way to help them eliminate corruption within state organizations. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, Dec. 1, p. 1] Read original text in Arabic
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Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
■ بداية هناك من يقول أن الأزهر تراجع عن موقفه من الدخول فى المجال السياسى مع أنه مؤسسة علمية دينية لا علاقة لها بالسياسة، فكيف يواجه الأزهر تلك الرؤية ؟
** مشاركة الأزهر فى النشاط الوطنى ومنه صياغة الدستور ليس امرا جديدا، حيث شارك فى صباغة دستور 23 وعلى نحو بالغ البروز، وكان يقود فريق الأزهر مفتى...
Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
وأكد الأنبا بولا، أسقف طنطا، الذى كان فى استقبال الطهطاوى، عدم وجود ممثل عن الكنيسة فى «التأسيسية»، بعد انسحاب كل ممثليها، وذلك ردا على ما ردده المهندس محمد الصاوى، من أنه ممثل الكنيسة بعد انسحاب ممثليها.وأشار القمص أنجيلوس إسحاق، سكرتير البابا تواضروس الثانى، إلى أن موقف الكنيسة من «التأسيسية» كما...
Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
وقال «البياضى» إن كل المحاولات لإعادة الكنيسة لـ«التأسيسية» باءت بالفشل، وإن الكنيسة لم تناقش بقية المواد التى «سلقتها» الجمعية التأسيسية، والكنائس لا ترغب فى إهدار جهد ٥ شهور من العمل فى الجمعية، لكنها تطالب القوى المسيطرة على «التأسيسية» بالتوافق، ووضع مصلحة الشعب فوق كل الأجندات والمصالح الضيقة...
Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
كما وافقت الجمعية فى الدستور الجديد على حق المواطنين فى تكوين الجمعيات والمؤسسات الأهلية والأحزاب بالإخطار، كما وافقت الجمعية على الفصل الثانى الخاص بالمبادئ الاجتماعية والأخلاقية والتى ينص الدستور فيها على التزام الدولة بتوفير الأمن والطمأنينة وتكافؤ الفرص بين جميع المواطنين دون تمييز، ثم استعرضت...
Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
وقال الانبا بولا في تصريحات صحفية حول تصريحات الدكتور محمد الصاوي المتحدث باسم الجمعية التأسيسية انه ممثل الكنيسة ـ لا اعتقد اطلاقا ان يصدر مثل هذا الامر عنه واخشي ان يكون منسوبا له بالخطأ. وحول دعوة المستشار حسام الغرياني رئيس الجمعية أمس الأول للمنسحبين بالعودة.. تساءل الانبا بولا لماذا نعود وكيف...
Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
ومن جانبه قال محمد عادل احد مؤسسي6 ابريل ان مايحدث في الجمعية من تعجيل والتصويت علي المسودة النهائية للدستور يسقط عنها انها جمعية وطنية حيث انها اصبحت تدار بأوامر من رئاسة الجمهورية لطبخ دستور يخرج الرئيس مرسي من الأزمة السياسية الحالية. في حين قال المهندس محمد انور السادات انه لايتصور ان يطرح...
Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
أنقر هنا لقراءة النص كاملا
Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
أنقر هنا لقراءة النص كاملا
Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
أنقر هنا لقراءة النص كاملا
Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
Comment Editor-in-Chief Cornelis Hulsman
One week ago I wrote in Arab-West Report that President Mursī’s decree is dividing the country, but one should not only blame the President. Circumstances are complicated. Dr. 'Amr Darrāj, General Secretary of the Constituent Assembly responded to that...
Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
On the assembly chairman Counselor Ḥusām al-Ghiryānī’s calls on the quitting members to return to the panel, Bishop Būla said in statements that the church refrained from attending the assembly sessions due to the [improper] way of debating.
“We know in advance about the results of the voting due...
Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
On the assembly chairman Counselor Ḥusām al-Ghiryānī’s calls on the quitting members to return to the panel, Bishop Būla said in statements that the church refrained from attending the assembly sessions due to the [improper] way of debating.
“We know in advance about the results of the voting due...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
Bishop Būla was commenting on statements by Muḥammad al-Sāwī, a member of the assembly, that he was representing the church on the panel. “I am afraid these statements were attributed to him (Sāwī) by mistake.” [Jamāl ʿIṣām al-Dīn, al-Taḥrīr, Nov. 30, p. 8] Read original text in Arabic
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Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
“All attempts to get the churches back to the constituent assembly ended up in failure. The churches have not debated the rest of the articles hastily-drafted by the assembly,” said Bayādī. [ʿImād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, Nov. 30, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic
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Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
Muḥammad ʿĀdil, a co-founder of the April 6 Movement, said hastening the constitution and premature voting over the final draft make the assembly undesirable as it is being run by orders from the presidency so as to hasten a constitution bringing President Muḥammad Mursī out of his current...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
Dr. Ḥasan al-Shāfʿī, a senior advisor to Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb and a senior Azhar scholar, said the top Sunni Muslim establishment, is not making itself a party to any political disputes, whether with the Muslim Brotherhood or Salafīs, adding the Brotherhood and Salafīs...
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Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
The constituent assembly approved an article giving citizens the right to form non-governmental associations and political parties by only notification. [ʿAbd al-Jawād ʿAlī, Bahā’ Mubāshir, Ahmad Sāmī Mitwallī and Sāmih Lāshīn, al-Ahrām, Nov. 30, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic
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Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
Despite the Syndicate of Journalists Council decision to quit the constituent assembly, later confirmed by the Syndicate’s general assembly meeting, Chairman Mamdūḥ al-Wālī disregarded the decision and attended the final session to vote over the draft constitution. [Rubā Nūr al-Dīn, al-Tahrīr, Nov...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II received Ambassador Muhammad Rifā’ah al-Tahtāwī, the Chief of the Presidential Cabinet on Thursday (November 29) at the Saint Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-ʿAbbāssīyah as a church source said the meeting falls within the framework of efforts by the...
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Date of source: 30 Nov 2012
Archpriest Angelus Isḥāq, Secretary of Pope Tawadros II, said the church’s position regarding the constituent assembly has not changed, adding the decision to quit the panel was in agreement with other Christian denominations. [Peter Majdī, al-Tahrīr, Nov. 30, p. 5] Read original text in Arabic
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Date of source: 29 Nov 2012
ومرقص عزيز خليل ـ مقدم برامج دينية ـ وفكري عبد المسيح زقلمة وشهرته عصمت زقلمة ـ طبيبا بشريا ـونبيل أديب بسادة موسي المنسق الإعلامي للجمعية الوطنية الأمريكية ـ واليا باسيلي وشهرته نيقولا باسيلي نيقولا ـ حاصل علي ليسانس الآداب جامعة القاهرة ـ وناهد محمود متولي وشهرتها فيبي عبد المسيح بوليس صليب ـ...
Date of source: 29 Nov 2012
حيث وجهت النيابة العامة للمتهم تهمة إنشاء صفحات الكترونية علي شبكات التواصل الاجتماعي ووضع عليها كتابات وصورا ومقاطع فيديو وصوت تدعو للإلحاد, لافتة الي انه شكك في الكتب السماوية, وتهكم علي الأنبياء والشعائر الدينية والمسيحية.
النص الاصلى باللغه العربية
Date of source: 29 Nov 2012
كما ناشد الأزهر الشريف في بيان أمس أبناء الوطن جميعا, مسلمين ومسيحيين, مؤيدين ومعارضين علي اليسار السياسي أو في اليمين, أن يضعوا المصلحة العليا للبلاد فوق كل اعتبار.
النص الاصلى باللغه العربية
Date of source: 29 Nov 2012
وكشف مصدر كنسى، لـ«الوطن»، أن خطة عمل اللجنة تعتمد على إعداد مسودة أولية للائحة الجديدة خلال فترة لا تتجاوز 4 شهور، بدأت منذ الاجتماع الأول للجنة منتصف الشهر الحالى، على أن تُرسل المسودة بعدها إلى كل الأساقفة على مستوى الكرازة المرقسية لدراستها مع قانونيين أو كهنة إبراشيتهم لكتابة ملاحظاتهم عليها،...
Date of source: 29 Nov 2012
أنقر هنا لقراءة النص كاملا
Date of source: 29 Nov 2012
أنقر هنا لقراءة النص كاملا
Date of source: 29 Nov 2012
أنقر هنا لقراءة النص كاملا
Date of source: 29 Nov 2012
أنقر هنا لقراءة النص كاملا
Date of source: 29 Nov 2012
أنقر هنا لقراءة النص كاملا
Date of source: 29 Nov 2012
The top Sunnī establishment, in a statement on Wednesday (November 28), also called on all sons of the nation – Muslims and Christians or supporters and opponents – to put the country’s higher interests above any considerations. [Marwā al-Bashīr, al-Ahrām, Nov. 29, p. 5] Read original text in...
Date of source: 29 Nov 2012
The top Sunnī establishment, in a statement on Wednesday (November 28), also called on all sons of the nation – Muslims and Christians or supporters and opponents – to put the country’s higher interests above any considerations. [Marwā al-Bashīr, al-Ahrām, Nov. 29, p. 5] Read original text in...
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Date of source: 29 Nov 2012
Only one person died of a heart attack in Tahrīr, heart of the 18-day uprising that forced former President Ḥusnī Mubārak to step down. [Ḥusām Zāyīd, al-Ahrām, Nov. 29, p. 5] Read original text in Arabic
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