Date of source: الاثنين, حزيران (يونيو) 27, 2011
Salafists launched a campaign to boycott Coptic businessman Najīb Sawirus and his companies, including his famous cell phone operator MobiNil for drawings on his Twitter page they considered "offensive to Islam".
Sawirus offered a quick apology for the drawings which depicted Mickey Mouse and...
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 1, 2011
CAIRO - The January 25 revolution is having a momentous impact on the Coptic Church. “The Copts will ignore Church policies,” surmised Mamoun Fendi, president of Fendi Associates, a Washington DC-based research group and think-tank, during the 18-day revolution.
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 19, 2011
Karīmah Kamāl writes that she appreciates the work of the Coptic business man Najīb Sawiris, however she opposes the way he got into the fitnah file.
He had visited Azhar Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb and entrusted him with protecting Copts, which, from the writer's point of view, is a direction...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 19, 2011
Is the church in Egypt persecuted? Many Coptic Christians would answer in the affirmative. I definitely agree that the situation for Christians in Egypt has worsened but I do not agree using the word persecution before we have first agreed on a definition and compare facts on the ground with this...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 11, 2011
On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 [Coptic tycoon Najīb] Sawiris asked the Azhar Grand Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayīb in the name of Egyptian Copts to protect the country’s Coptic minority.
He further called for the establishment of a civil committee, handling issues of inter-religious conversions and for a law...
Date of source: الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 8, 2011
The Free Egyptians Party is poised to compete the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party in the parliamentary elections, now that most of its members are Muslims," said Najīb Sawirus, a Coptic businessman and the founder of the Free Egyptians Party.
During a meeting held April 7, 2011 in...
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 6, 2011
Najīb Sāwīrus, businessman and founder of the new liberal party “Free Egyptians”, denied saying that he doesn’t want any Copt to run for presidency. Instead he is calling any national efficient Copt to nominate himself in the elections.
Date of source: الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 11, 2010
The governor of Al-Fayyum cancels the contract to build 5000 houses for the youth with Orascom Company.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, نيسان (أبريل) 5, 2011
Business tycoon Naguib Sawiris, a Coptic Christian, said yesterday he would accept a Muslim president for Egypt, on the condition that he would be committed to “values of justice, and equality between a Muslim and a Christian, and between a man and a woman”. He added that he rejected a Christian...
Date of source: الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 1, 2011
Najīb Abādīr announces on AWR the formation of a new liberal party launched by Najīb Sawirus.