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A number of Coptic activists lunched a campaign on the social-networking website “Facebook” under the slogan “no for inviting killers to the Cathedral” and that to demand from the church not to invite President Mursī, Prime Minister Hishām Qandīl and speaker of the Shūrá Council Ahmad Fahmī to the...
Dr. ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Barr, member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Guidance Office (al-Irshād Office), issued a fatwá banning greeting Copts in Easter. The Muslim Brotherhood Muftī continued that the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is against Muslims’ doctrine because Jesus or ‘Isá (as Muslims say) did...
Luxor Misdemeanors Court headed by Judge Muhammad al-Tamāwī has fined the teacher Dimīyānah ʿUbayd ʿAbd al-Nūr EgP100 thousand. Dimīyānah faced the charges of insulting Islam and the Prophet as well as proselytizing her students at Naga El Sheikh Sultan (Naj’ al-Shaykh Sultān) primary school in the...
We appreciate Mr. Cornelis Hulsman's respect to the feelings of all Christian clerics, whom we also respect, and we respect that he might have used -unintentionally or not knowing the words’ significance in the Arabic language- words that discredited them. However, this does not deny that the word...
Al-Shaykh Hassan Al-Bannā was eager to make himself and the Muslim Brotherhood appear as if they were living on good terms with religious minorities in Egypt. The group tries to confirm that by recalling the attendance of Makram ‘Ubayd at the funeral of Hassan al-Bannā in 1949 to demonstrate the...
“People hear about people and think in clichés and stereotypes. Now they were able to challenge and counterbalance me.” Ṭāriq Shaʿlān about the New Arab Debates.   Co-founder and head of the economic committee of the new al-Waṭan Party, Ṭāriq Shaʿlān, engaged in an intense debate with lawyer Ghādāh...
Hundreds of political activists took part in solidarity Iftār initiatives outside prisons across Egypt, including Wādī al-Natrūn in Alexandria and Turah in Cairo, demanding the release of prisoners from the January 25 Revolution.
I participated this week in a meeting to which I was invited by friend novelist Dr. 'Azzah Kāmil, Director of Appropriate Communication Techniques for Development Organization [ACT]. The meeting’s title was “Towards Effective Strategies for Combating Violence and Trafficking of Women and Girls”. Dr...
Does the holy month of Ramadān differ this year from previous years?!This is a question one of my old friends asked me. When I inquired about the reason for asking the question in this way, he answered that he feels that the features and ‘flavor’ of Ramadan have changed as other things have changed...
The village of Dahshūr witnessed a security blockade by the Giza Security Department after the death of young Muslim Mu’āz Muhammad Hassan. Around 20 central security vehicles surrounded the village in order to prevent clashes between Muslims and Copts after the 19-year-old succumbed to his...

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