Date of source: الأربعاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 5, 2012
The Salafī al-Nūr (Light) Party and its parent organization Salafī Da’wah (Call) Movement launched a campaign to raise awareness of citizens on the importance of voting in favor of the draft constitution in a referendum that would take place soon and refutation of criticism against articles in the...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 4, 2012
At the police station of al-Haram district in Giza, a police report has been bailed against ′Abd-al-Halῑm Qandῑl, the editor in chief of Sawt -al-‘Ummah Newspaper, and ′Isām Ismā′ῑl, the board chairman of the same.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 4, 2012
Al-Akhbār daily state-run newspaper writes on December 4 that Coptic Orthodox PopeTawadros II called for prayers for the safety of Egypt and its leaders in charge.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 21, 2012
Dr. Ḥasan al-Shāfʿī, Chairman of the Arabic Language Academy, who is also a representative of the Azhar in the panel, said the Azhar and the church are in agreement on the need to keep Article II of the constitution intact.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 20, 2012
Coptic thinker Rafīq Habīb said the war being waged by the secularist powers and elite on the Muslim Brotherhood and its Freedom and Justice Party, Islamist parties and the constituent assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt are all battles against the Islamic identity, the same thing that...
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 30, 2012
Dr. Ḥasan al-Shāfʿī, a senior advisor to Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb and a senior Azhar scholar, said the top Sunni Muslim establishment, is not making itself a party to any political disputes, whether with the Muslim Brotherhood or Salafīs, adding the Brotherhood and Salafīs...
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 30, 2012
Bishop Būla, the representative of the church who quit the constituent assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt, said the church has not authorized anyone to vote on its behalf over the draft.
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 23, 2012
President Muḥammad Mursī issued a constitutional declaration seeking retrials of former regime officials charged with murdering and attempted murdering of protesters.
The declaration also contained an article immunizing all constitutional declarations and decrees issued by the president of the...
Date of source: السبت, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 24, 2012
Objections to the president’s decrees caused tension and clashes with members of the Muslim Brotherhood group in a number of governorates, topped by a most heated Alexandria.
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 29, 2012
The al-Marj Court of Misdemeanor adjourned the trial of Albir ʿAyyād Sābir, a Copt who faces charges of religion disdaining, insulting prophets and openly casting doubts over heavenly books and sanctities, to the December 12 session as courts are on a strike protesting a constitutional declaration...