Date of source: Sunday, July 26, 2009
40 detained in Minia governorate sectarian strife
Date of source: Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Human rights head says Minia officials negligent in addressing fitnahs.
Date of source: Sunday, July 19, 2009
A church catches fire in a village in Upper Egypt. The author explores the stories surrounding this fire.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Reviewer: Nuhayr ‘IsmatMājid ‘Atīyah gives a brief history of eminent Christian figures whose villages are named after them.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Mājid ‘Atiyah wonders why a village with a Christian name had its name changed.
Date of source: Saturday, October 3, 2009
Although he is a former official in the Ministry of the Interior, General Ahmad Diyā’ al-Dīn the governor of Minya has failed to put an end to the sectarian incidents taking place among Copts and Muslims through wisdom. Instead he uses violence and suppression to deal with such crises.
Date of source: Sunday, October 4, 2009
In his article Yūsuf Sidhom differentiates between the sectarian incidents that take place between Muslims and Copts and real cases of persecution that affect masses of Copts. He argues that the problems for Copts in the governorate of Minya are particularly bad and states that the file on them...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Comments on the ending of the legal criminal dimension of the Abu-Fana crisis
Date of source: Saturday, September 19, 2009
Kamāl comments on the most recent sectarian incident that has taken place in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minia.
Date of source: Sunday, October 25, 2009
Sidhum continues his series of articles reviewing the grievances ofCopts in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya. In this article he focuses on the problems that Christians face when trying to build houses. Sidhum argues that any house built by a Copt comes under suspicion because the...