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The conciliatory session, in which the president's advisor, a delegation from the Shūrá Council, the deputy shaykh of the Azhar and the governor of Giza took part, successfully calmed the tension in Dahshūr after clashes erupted there between two Muslim and Christian families. Mu'āz Muhammad Hasab...
Security agencies in Giza on Saturday (Aug. 4), in coordination with local popular and executive leaders, had several meetings and conciliatory sessions between Muslims and Christians in Dahshūr to bring Christian families back to their homes in the village. A commission composed of 10 Muslims and...
Dr. Yāsir ‘Alī, the presidential spokesman, denied that “Coptic brothers” were compulsorily displaced out of the village of Dahshūr after the recent clashes, adding reports received by the presidency affirmed that they left the village due to security conditions. [Nāsir ‘Abd al-Majīd, ‘Umnīyah...
Mursī gave instructions to Giza Governor 'Alī 'Abd al-Rahman to speed up containment of the crisis that erupted there, including the formation of a commission within 24 hours to survey the losses and include them into the dossier of current investigations. The commission is to estimate the proper...
President Muhammad Mursī ordered the authorities concerned to secure the return of Coptic families who left their homes during last week's deplorable incidents of unrest in the impoverished Giza district of Dahshūr and firmly enforce the law in order to preserve peaceful coexistence. Presidential...
The crisis over the drafting of Article II of the Constitution continued after representatives of the salafī camp insisted on the addition of the phrase “legislators shall enact laws based on the sources of the four Islamic madhāhib (doctrines)” as precondition for keeping the phrase “principles of...
Meanwhile, Muftī of the Republic Dr. ‘Alī Jum’ah said Egyptians appreciate the nuncio of the Roman Catholic Church in Cairo, Michael Fitzgerald, who “used to disseminate endearment among the people of Egypt and we’d like to see him coming back to this country he loved” Jum’ah made the remarks...
Meanwhile, police forces in the Upper Egyptian governorate of al-Minyā controlled sectarian unrest in the town of Abū Qurqās after an auto rickshaw, or tuk-tuk, driven by a Muslim hit a Christian man crossing the street. Squabbles quickly developed into clashes in which Molotov cocktails and stones...
Sources said that members of the constitution-drafting panel nearly agreed on the cancellation of the 50% quota for farmers and workers in parliament and the Shūrá Council, the upper house of the Egyptian parliament. [Muhammad Sa’īd and Ahmad Mamdūh, Akhbār al-Yawm, July 7, p. 6] Read original text...
Political and partisan powers are this week discussing a draft constitution prepared by the leftist al-Tajammu’ (Grouping) Party, in which it relied on the 1954 Constitution, and would send it soon to the constituent assembly. The proposed draft started with articles pertaining to the sharī’ah that...

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