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Last week the media reported, that finally a solution was found for the sectarian crisis in the Sharbāt village of the Township of al-'Āmirīyah, Alexandria governorate. [Reviewer's Note: After violent actions of hundreds of Muslims against the family of a Copt, who was accused of having a romantic...
I am not alone in feeling wary about the outcome of the fact-finding mission charged with investigating the Maspero massacre of the Copts on 9 October, and the incident which led up to it: the burning of Mar-Girgis (St George) church in Merinab, Aswan on 30 September. Facts which are now being...
The wrath which raged, and is still raging, against Israel in the Egyptian street is both legitimate and justified. It is a show of public fury at the killing of five Egyptian security personnel last month during an Israeli operation against cross-border terrorist raiders who had assassinated eight...
 No matter what successes Prime Minister Essam Sharaf achieves together with his cabinet, he will always be discredited for underestimating public memory—a memory by no means poor. With that memory alertly registering details big and small on the Egyptian arena, Dr Sharaf has miserably failed. The...
The groups which have chosen to break with the “national community” are untiringly shrieking in defence of “the people, and only the people, must draft the constitution”. In doing so, they deliberately deceive and distort public awareness by alleging that they singlehandedly care for the people’s...
A former coach of Egypt’s National Football Team once said it was beyond him to understand the nature of the character of some of Egypt’s national team players. They carefully abided by training routines, they comprehended strategies and carried them out on the green field, and they knew very well...
The rapid turn of events in Egypt over the past few weeks has of necessity calmed down the heated debate over the unified law for building places of worship. What with the recent al-Azhar document reflecting the venerable institution’s enlightened vision of the future; the disgruntled...
“Lots of rumors have spread nowadays; some of the most recent fallacies circulated concern the church of the Holy Virgin in ‘Ain Shams, the re-opening of which, after three years of closure, triggered a crisis,” says Yūsuf Sīdhum, author of the article.
No sooner did the authorities issue a decision to reopen a number of churches which had been closed by the former security apparatus than a crisis erupted—one in a long line of attempts to hijack the 25 January Revolution by forces opposed to democracy, freedom, and citizenship rights. Among the...
In the immediate aftermath of the tragic attack against the Copts in Imbabāh a fortnight ago—the latest in a series of episodes by salafis and thugs aimed at hijacking the 25 January Revolution—the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) dispatched a fact-finding commission to Imbabāh. The...

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