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Sotheby's auction house is organizing its most comprehensive series of exhibitions and sales, which deal with the history of Middle Eastern art through five sales ranging from the contemporary to the ancient. These auctions will complement a series of seminars and lectures by leading scholars from...
His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the Holy See of St. Mark inaugurated on Sunday the third seminar of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church.  Titled “Church Services and The Coptic Family”, the seminar reviewed a number of papers, including the personal...
During an aired interview delivered to Sky News Arabic TV Channel on Saturday evening, Grand Imam Dr. Ahmad al-Tayeb of Al-Azhar Al-Sharīf condemned the terror attacks that hit the French capital Paris on Friday. He said, “The news on these criminal attacks shocked me like anyone else who is...
Last Tuesday, the independent Cairo daily al-Youm al-Sabei printed a story on a meeting between a number of Coptic figures and representatives of the presidency. Having myself been among those Coptic figures, I would like to cite here what actually took place in that meeting. Read full text in...
“People hear about people and think in clichés and stereotypes. Now they were able to challenge and counterbalance me.” Ṭāriq Shaʿlān about the New Arab Debates.   Co-founder and head of the economic committee of the new al-Waṭan Party, Ṭāriq Shaʿlān, engaged in an intense debate with lawyer Ghādāh...
A source close to the Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb, told al-Watan that, the latter had decided to prolong his holidays in his hometown in the Luxor Province in Upper Egypt, concerned on the attempts to what they called the “Brotherhoodization” of the Ministry of Awkaf or Awqāf (...
Below is the full text of the 1957 Statute on the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Election in English for the first time. The Arabic version is also available on AWR website.
 ‘Abbūd al-Zumur, a leading member of al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyah and one of the convicted persons in the 1981 assassination of former Egyptian President Anwar al-Sādāt, filed a lawsuit at the State Council demanding a court ruling obliging the interior minister to remove his name from any criminal...
An Egyptian Coptic delegation flew to Lebanon on November 14 to attend the first conference organized by the European Union (EU) to discuss the conditions of Christians in the Middle East region.
  Najīb Jabrā’īl, a Coptic lawyer and the head of the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights and Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, met on Wednesday morning to discuss the deteriorating situation of the Clerical Council, and the increasing number of cases it is receiving – in its...

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