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The constituent assembly committees on Saturday (July 7) started sessions to hear representatives of political groups to explore their visions and suggestions for the new constitution. The committees heard members of the Revolution Youths Union, including its executive office members Muhammad al-...
Dr. Wahīd ‘Abd al-Majīd, the official spokesman for the constituent assembly, said Article II has not been officially discussed inside the relevant committee on mainstays of the society or the general sessions in the assembly. [Ahmad Fathī, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, July 8, p. 5] Read original text in...
Some are depicting the sharī’ah as if it is sheer penal code but it eventually acts like a security fence protecting the society, the people and the nation in accordance with controls not like any other controls included in any given man-made laws. [Yusrī Hammād, al-Misrī al-Yawm, July 8, p. 17] ...
Scholars from the Azhar attacked demands by al-Nūr to add the phrase “the four Islamic doctrines” to Article II, noting the people asking for this addition “have flawed understanding of the Islamic sharī’ah”. Former Muftī of the Republic Dr. Nasr Farīd Wāsil, a representative of the Azhar on the...
Observers from One World Foundation for Development & Civil Society Care spotted violations in Assiut, including late opening of ballot stations and illegal campaigning outside a station by supporters of Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) candidate Muhammad Mursī. Also in...
In a long queue in the Cairo district of Shubrā, 75-year-old Ahmad al-Sayīd said the platforms of candidates are all the same, adding voting must be based on the candidate’s “Islamic background because God will ask us who did we vote for”. In another location in Subrā, 67-year-old Christian man...
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter met on Thursday (May 24) with Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb and leaders of the different Christian denominations in Egypt at the Azhar’s headquarters and Saint Mark Cathedral in the district of al-‘Abbāssīyah separately. Emerging from a meeting with...
Observers from One World Foundation for Development & Civil Society Care spotted violations in Assiut, including late opening of ballot stations and illegal campaigning outside a station by supporters of Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) candidate Muhammad Mursī. Also in...
“Citizens are trapped between a rock and a hard place. They will have to choose only between the fulūl (remnants of the former regime) or Islamist groups. Citizens voted for Shafīq not because he is the most efficient but rather to avoid brining the Muslim Brotherhood to power,” said Harīrī in...
He noted the Holy Synod confirmed that women will be allowed for the first time to vote in the papal chair elections, adding the addition of expatriate Copts to the election lists just like Copts at home is being considered at present. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Akhbār, April 19, p. 3] Read text in...

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