Date of source: Sunday, April 14, 2019
The Cairo Criminal Court continues to hear the prosecutor's pleading in the retrial of the ousted President Muḥammad Mursī and 23 Brotherhood leaders in connection with Ḥamas with the maximum sentence imposed on the defendants.
The session will be held under the chairmanship of Judge Muḥammad...
Date of source: Sunday, August 25, 2019
The President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, Aḥmad al-Raysūnī, has caused outrage by issuing a fatwā permitting Muslims to visit al-Aqṣā Mosque in Jerusalem, affirming that “not everyone who visits Jerusalem commits a wrongdoing or is calling for normalisation”.
The International...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 9, 2019
In a hearing held today with regard to the case of espionage for Ḥamās, the representative of the Supreme State Security Prosecution Muḥammad Jamāl revealed the details of the phone call between the ousted President MuḥammadMursī and the Director of his Office Aḥmad ‘Abd al ʿĀṭī as he was in...
Date of source: Sunday, July 14, 2019
The death of Muḥammad Mursī, Egypt’s first elected president since the 2011 revolution, on June 17 sparked a wave of controversy and conflicting truths between human rights organizations and Egyptian media. Mursī died in court in Cairo where he was on trial facing charges of espionage.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 9, 2019
The Giza and Cairo courts witnessed today several important hearing sessions including the pleading of the public prosecution service in the case of "Spying for Ḥamās" and in the case of "Sinai state".
Date of source: Sunday, September 29, 2013
Majdī Khalīl, the head of the Coptic Solidarity Organization, stated that American military analysts will visit Egypt to learn about the Egyptian’s military ways of countering terrorism in the Sinai as well as learning of the role of Hamās and Hizballah. Khalīl stated that the aim of this visit is...
Date of source: Sunday, October 7, 2012
Priest Philopater Jamīl of the Virgin Mary Church in ‘Izbit al-Nakhl area, northern Cairo, did a hatchet job on the regime of President Muhammad Mursī and accused him and the Muslim Brotherhood over a channel relaying from the United States of involvement in a bombing attack that targeted the Two...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 18, 2013
The Supreme State Security service has concluded its investigations into the explosions at the Church of Saint Mark and Saint Peter on January 1 2011 which killed twenty people and injured close to a hundred. The lawyer for the victims, Joseph Malāk, said the investigations into the issue had...
Date of source: Sunday, November 26, 2017
Slightly more than one hundred years ago on November 2, 1917, the Balfour Declaration was signed. The recently celebrated anniversary of the declaration led to expressions of appreciation, critique, hope, and fear through global media outlets, such as the Huffington Post, The Guardian, and the...