Date of source: Sunday, April 13, 2008
Majdī Khalīl discusses the Egyptian government’s stance toward Copts and claims that the regime is attempting to destroy the Coptic cause.
Date of source: Saturday, January 6, 2007
Pope Shenouda is a charismatic character who has always had outspoken stances on national and international causes. With his high sense of patriotism, Pope Shenouda III has become a distinctive feature in the history of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
The author rejects the idea of Islamizing the United Bank of Egypt, fearing that it could simply be a further step in forcing the rules of an Islamic economy onto the banking sector in Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 13, 2007
While Zionist
organizations accuse Pope Shenouda III of anti-Semitism, Muḥammad ‘Imārah accuses him of sparking sectarian
sedition. The author of the following lines wonders if the simultaneous attacks were coincidental.
Date of source: Sunday, March 11, 2007
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies [CIHRS] has sent an appeal to the president of the republic and the speakers of both houses of Parliament called to amend Article Two of the Constitution that states that Islam is the religion of the state and Islamic sharīʿā is the main source of...
Date of source: Sunday, February 25, 2007
The author records the history of the Muslim Brotherhood and its relation with Copts.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 17, 2007
While all Egyptians seem to agree on the importance of applying principles of citizenship and equality, and while everyone is calling for a more active role in political situations and the less political nature of religious institutions, many still argue about amending article two of the...
Date of source: Friday, August 8, 1997
The
author criticizes an article that
appeared previously in el-Shaab which "attacked Copts without any reason,
and accused them of being
mercenaries, agents for the C.I.A." and "traitors." But, says the author, Jews created
this issue. Copts
abroad become panic-stricken because of the...
Date of source: Friday, August 15, 1997
Gamal
Sultan
states that persecution is that which was experienced by the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzovina who were
massacred and raped, and not, as some Copts suggest, the situation experienced by the Copts in Egypt, who
complain
that there only two Coptic ministers in cabinet and that there...
Date of source: Sunday, July 23, 2006
The author complains about the absence of Coptic names from the list of students who gained the highest grades in the thānawīya ‘amma [Egyptian high school].