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While the Coptic Pope has supported al-Sīsī’s presidential bid, Coptic intellectuals think it may take more than the Pope’s blessings for the Copts to vote for him. 
The discussion about the electoral law for the papal election in the Coptic Orthodox Church has been raging for many decades since 1957. When Pope Yusab II passed away, leading members of the Sunday School Movement, a reform movement in the church, entered monastic life and presented themselves as...
I talked to Father Yo’annis, and he narrated to me an incident that occurred to him on March 10 while he was driving back to Maghagha from Cairo. He went to Cairo for a visit to a patient at Al-Salam International Hospital. He was accompanied by the brother-in-law of this patient, Salafi Shaykh...
The interview took place at the residence of the bishop in Six October City on December 10, 2013. The interview was entirely in Arabic and was transcribed and translated into English. Interviewers: Cornelis Hulsman and Jayson Casper Transcribed by: Ahmad Deiab and Raafat Nabil Translated by: Ahmad...
On May 16, 2013, Arab-West Report was able to interview a former security advisor for the government in North Sinai, who preferred to stay anonymous. A general in the army, his posting began in 2005 and lasted until November, 2012, when he resigned in disagreement with the Mursī administration for...
Among the key components in the 2013 amendments to the Egyptian constitution is the role of religion, and few are better placed to judge than Muhammad ‘Abd al-Salām. A judge and the legal consultant to the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, Ahmad al-Tayyib, Salām served as one of three Azhar representatives...
‘Ādil Mājid is the vice-president of the Egyptian Court of Cassation, the nation’s supreme judicial body. He is an expert in international criminal law and anti-terrorism, and currently serves as special advisor to the Islamic Criminal Justice Project at Durham University in the United Kingdom,...
After a halting, stilted walk to receive me at the gate of the Zamalek Club, where he has become a near-celebrity, Husām al-Massāh opened our meeting with bombast. “I have no party except the Egyptian Party!” “I am a Coptic Muslim!” “I was worth ten men on the committee!” His verbal exuberance...
Mirvat al-Tallāwī is head of the National Council for Women and one of the fifty members of the committee to amend the 2012 constitution. After originally suggesting 20 names to the president hoping for a one-third female composition, the council received a note back asking this to be narrowed down...
The last thing Dr. Nadia Mustafá wanted to talk about on December 9 was the constitution. Enraged at the military coup which deposed President Mursī and mournful over the deaths of so many of his supporters, the constitution is as illegal as the current government which produced it. 

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