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Forensic Medicine Authority report revealed that Mu'āz Muhammad, 20-years-old Muslim, recorded a cause of death by burns from a Molotov Cocktail during the sectarian incidents between Muslims and Christians in Dahshūr, Giza Governorate. Mu'āz was passing by coincidence during the clashes when he...
Many writers and cultured people expected that after the revolutions of the 25th of January 2011, the tactics of the Egyptian (national) TV will change. However, the media coverage presented by Egyptian official TV proves that it still follows the same tactic and approach which have always been...
Al-Menya Criminal Court resumes the Samallūt train shooter trial on September 13, 2011. 'Āmir 'Ashūr, a police personnel, had randomly got into Samallūt, al-Menya governorate, train and opened fire on the passengers, killing one Copt and injuring six others. Read background texts on AWR (1) Read...
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...
Copts in the Egyptian media 42 Our reading of the Cairo papers this week takes us to the weekly, State-owned al-Mussawar and the file it recently published on “Do Copts hate the July Revolution?” In his article entitled, “Copts under Jamāl 'Abd al-Nāsir,” Midhat Bishāy attempted to cite both the...
Kūrnīsh al-Nīl area, beside the building of the Egyptian television, is Nevine Naguib's way to work every day. One day, during Copts protest on the demolishing of the church of Two Martyrs, Saint Mina and Saint George in 'Ātfīh, she had a personal experience on the ideologies of some Muslims...
Agence France Presse's report on the burning of the church of the Two Martyrs St. Mina and St. George; also covered in Jordan Times.  
This article reports on various sources, all denying that policeman ‘Āmir ‘Āshūr, who allegedly shot dead a Copt and injured five others on a train, had any mental problems. According to Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Mufīd Shihāb this rules out any “sectarian motives behind the...
  On Tuesday, an off-duty Egyptian police officer reportedly opened fire on a train in the southern province of Minya, killing one Christian and injuring 5 others. Today's Egyptian newspapers mostly emphasized that the assailant was allegedly mentally unstable and that his motives were not...
Yāsir Sayyid Khalaf, 23, was killed at the hands of six Christians as a revenge for persuading their sister to embrace Islam and marry him. The deceased’s mother asserts that Hāydī converted to Islam before she marry Yāsir or even got acquainted with him. Keywords: Conversion to Islam

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