Arab West Report Egyptian press summaries and media research for dialogue

The Coptic Orthodox Church would choose Coptic men of law to participate in the constituent assembly that would write a new constitution for Egypt but would exclude the clergy, a source at the papal office said on condition of anonymity. ['Abd al-Wahāb Sha'bān, al-Wafd, March 5, p. 3] Read text in Arabic

Eng. Abū al-'Ilā Mādī, the president of al-Wasat Party, said in a rally in al-Minya governorate on September 24, 2011 that the party will provide the biggest Islamic project, adding that the Party's ideologies are: Islamic, civility and peace.

He added that his party is not intending to ally with any party except with al-Wafd Party and the Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). 

Engineer Salāh Hāshim, one of the founders of the Jamā'ah Islāmīyah (Islamic Group), said unity of the different factions and movements would furnish an opportunity for the Islamists to make it to power.

Abū al-‘Ilā Mādī, founding member of Ḥizb al-Wasaṭ, has said that Azhar Shaykh Ahmad Al-Tayīb is concerned only with the reform of the systems of Azhar, after Azhar called for an emergency meeting on the crisis of the so-called "ultra-constitutional principles". This came during a visit to the party headquarters. 

 A collection of political parties, with the majority being Islamic, have reached an agreement refusing the principles above the constitution and the constitutional proclamation, and put forward new principles.

Hamdī Rizq reports on a cleavage in the Muslim Brotherhood that started in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Beni Suef a few months ago.

The article discusses the Muslim Brotherhood’s new political platform.

The author is a member of the Brotherhood. His article is a study about the group that deals with the Brotherhood from inside and its relations with Islamic groups, political parties, the Egyptian regime and Islamic countries in the light of the US control of the world.

A religious state looms, as evident with the emergence of Muslim and Coptic religious parties.

Muḥammad Ḥijāzī’s conversion has sparked protests in both religious and social milieus; the issue has also affected the political situation. In a display of compassion for Ḥijāzī, a demonstration was held in Italy that called for greater respect of religious freedom in Egypt.