Date of source: Monday, April 11, 2016
Jamāl al-Bannā was born in 1920 in al-Mahmūdiyyah in al-Bihīrah governorate, Egypt. His elder brother was al-Imām Hasan al-Bannā, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Despite being the brother of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Bannā pursued quite different interests. al-Bannā...
Date of source: Friday, April 29, 2016
During a press conference, President Sīsī refused to characterize Copts as a minority saying, “Egypt doesn’t have Christian minorities.” He went on to claim that the expression “minorities” is not used in Egypt because Christians are Egyptians who enjoy the same rights and the same duties as other...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 29, 2015
The National Council for Women submits proposal to get women into leadership roles
At a UNESCO conference called “Freedom of the Press in the World Today” Egyptian Ambassador Mīrfat al-Tālawī said that for her, the value of the conference lies in getting to know the challenges facing women in...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 28, 2016
John R. Bradley, a British author and journalist best known for his 2008 book Inside Egypt: the Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution, identifies the Egyptian revolution of 1952 as “a failed revolution” that ended Egypt’s belle époque of the 1930s and 1940s’ cultural heyday. The author...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 11, 2011
On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 [Coptic tycoon Najīb] Sawiris asked the Azhar Grand Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayīb in the name of Egyptian Copts to protect the country’s Coptic minority.
He further called for the establishment of a civil committee, handling issues of inter-religious conversions and for a law...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Ahmad Abū Zayd disagrees with Yahyá al-Jamal's statements on the possibility to remove the two Arabic letters [Alif] and [Lām] [equivalent to 'The' in English] from the second article in the constitution which states that the Islamic sharī'ah is the principal source of legislation.
Date of source: Saturday, November 20, 2010
Du‘ā’ talks about the mixed reactions amongst the ecclesial society regarding the annual report issued by the United States Department of State. The report heavily criticized religious freedom in Egypt because of the government’s alleged discrimination against Christians and Bahā’īs. The report was...
Date of source: Friday, January 1, 2010
This article deals with the problem of Muslims electing Coptic Christian presidents and officials.
Date of source: Thursday, March 11, 2010
The author discusses the relationship between American policy and the rights of minorities, with specific reference to the Copts in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, January 24, 2010
The author highlights an article by British journalist Robert Fisk on the conditions of Christians in the Middle East.