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Date of source: Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The Azhar, commenting on the ruling, said the top Sunnī establishment supports the judiciary and the respects legitimacy, adding justice has the final say on everything.
“The Azhar is not dictating anything to any institution. It has expressed rejection against participation in the constituent...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Majdī Shenouda, the representative of the church on the panel, said the ruling has offered a sigh of relief for the Egyptian street and was in line with the law.
He called for re-forming the assembly that should include at least five constitutional law experts.
Asked whether the church, which had...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The court said that Article 60 of the Constitutional Declaration has mentioned that the People’s Assembly and Shūrá Council are to meet to choose 100 members of the constituent assembly to draft a constitution but it has not clearly stated that the members of parliament will obtain membership of...
Date of source: Saturday, June 24, 2017
The new Egyptian NGO law was widely criticized in different media and as a consequence we received questions about the status of the Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU) in relation to the new law. The following constitutes Dr. Hulsman's response.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 21, 2015
The undersigned organizations condemn the recent decisions to ban some democracy advocates from traveling, based on decisions by the investigative judge in the “foreign funding case.”
Date of source: Saturday, July 2, 2016
Najād al-Barʿī: “Civil society in Egypt is suffering from attempts to crush it”
Lawyer Najād al-Barʿī head of the Lawyers and Legal Consultants United Group, said that civil society is threatened by attempts to crush it. He pointed to the attempts of striking human rights activists, citing the...
Date of source: Monday, March 16, 2015
Several NGOs and individuals from Egypt and abroad signed a statement urging the Egyptian government to release 30 refugees on food strike to protest the treatment of the Egyptian police.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 11, 2012
In a significant development regarding the formation of the constituent assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt, the Council of State’s Administrative Judiciary Court abolished the panel in its current formation after lawyers and constitutional law professors filed lawsuits objecting its...
Date of source: Saturday, March 10, 2012
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) handed over a memo to the president of the People's Assembly about the constitution panel. CIHRS said that the members of the constituent assembly should be outside parliament in order to protect the constitution's legitimacy.
Date of source: Sunday, March 11, 2012
There are concerns about the approaches of drafting the new Egyptian Constitution which is currently dominating the political climate in Egypt. These concerns are associated with the criteria for the formation of the constituent assembly and its members. So far the final shape of the assembly is...
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.