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Political powers, parties and movements expressed reservations over the rate of representation of women, Copts and law experts included into the initial report by People’s Assembly Legislative Committee. [Khālid ‘Abd al-Rasūl and Ahmad Ghunaym, al-Watan, May 15, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic
He noted that 200 Muslim and Coptic political figures, intellectuals and clerics have participated in the study, including Bishop Marqus, Bishop Yūhannā Qultah, Freedom and Justice Party deputy leader ‘Isām al-‘Iryān, People’s Assembly member Subhī Sālih, Abū al-‘Izz al-Harīrī, Jamāl al-Bannā and...
CIDT director Hānī Labīb said the center has conducted a recent public opinion poll on Article 2, which reads that Islamic sharī’ah is the main source of legislation. “The nine-month-long survey covered 5,000 respondents from 10 governorates as only 2% demanded the article’s abolition while 7%...
Dr. Nabīl Hilmī, the former dean of the Faculty of Law, al-Zaqāzīq University, said during the meeting that he supports keeping article 2 of the constitution but has to be watered down so as to avoid it causing any splits among the segments of the Egyptian society. Shaykh ‘Usāmah al-Qūsī, a Salafī ...
Meanwhile, human rights activists, intellectuals and preachers concurred that the presidential system is the best for Egypt at present. In a symposium on Article 2 of the Egyptian Constitution, organized by the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation (CIDT) at the al-Sa’īd association on...
The artistic items police closed down the office of the Iranian channel al-‘Alam, arrested its director and seized all equipment for the station’s failure to obtain a license before working in Egypt. [‘Imād al-Dīn Sābir, al-Ahrām, May 15, p. 6] Read original text in Arabic
Minister of Information exacted administrative penalties on Ibrāhīm al-Sayyād, the chairman of the news sector in the state television, and ‘Abd al-‘Azīz al-Hilw, an official in the sector, after administrative investigations into reported inciting coverage of the October 9 events in Maspero, which...
Political powers, parties and movements expressed reservations over the rate of representation of women, Copts and law experts included into the initial report by People’s Assembly Legislative Committee. [Khālid ‘Abd al-Rasūl and Ahmad Ghunaym, al-Watan, May 15, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic
The number of monks applied for the position rose to seven after Monks Bīshūy and Archpriest Maximus presented their papers and recommendations to the candidacy committee. [Mustafá Rahūmah, al-Watan, May 15, p. 4] Read text in Arabic
A prominent bishop at the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church revealed that one of the reasons to exclude candidates for the Saint Mark chair will be “ill reputation”. [‘Abd al-Wahāb Sha’bān, al-Wafd, May 15, p. 1] Read text in Arabic

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