Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 27, 2008
The article reports on the inauguration ceremony of Michael Meunier’s new foundation ’Hand in Hand for Egypt’ that has been approved by Egyptian authorities.
Date of source: الأحد, آذار (مارس) 2, 2008
The Supreme Administrative Court has ruled that Christians who have obtained divorce court rulings are allowed to re-marry. It obligated the Coptic Orthodox Church to issue re-marriage licenses for them.
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 20, 2008
The People’s Assembly approved the draft law banning demonstrations in Egyptian houses of worship. The Muslim Brotherhood boycotted the vote and withdrew from the session, and the Minister of Endowments asserted that houses of worship are inviolable.
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 20, 2008
Scores of thinkers has attacked the Cairo First Conference on the Activation of Citizenship, saying it promotes sectarianism and raises wonders about the nature of relationship between the expatriate Copts in the West and foreign political powers.
Date of source: السبت, شباط (فبراير) 23, 2008 to الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 29, 2008
Although the banned Muslim Brotherhood group has been subjected to a massive security crackdown that resulted in the arrest of hundreds of its members and key figures, it has announced that it would run in the forthcoming elections for the local councils.
Date of source: الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 15, 2008
The article contains a number of inquiries addressed to Pope Shenouda III during his weekly lecture at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral.
Date of source: الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 15, 2008
The article shows the reasons and repercussions to the recent republication of one of the 12 blasphemous caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in many Danish and European newspapers just one day after Danish police declared that it foiled a plot to murder the cartoonist.
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 29, 2008
Debates surface following the publication of a document regarding the freedom of expression in the Arab world by the Arab League. This issue also focuses on the future of political life in Egypt, and the difficulties that may arise.
Date of source: السبت, شباط (فبراير) 2, 2008 to الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 8, 2008
Islām Kamāl and Shawqī ‘Isām attacks the private press and satellite channels, accusing them of contributing to the increasing feeling of depression in Egyptians’ lives.
Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 27, 2008
Muhammad Hijāzī, the controversial convert to Christianity speaks for the first time to the Egyptian press. He announces the birth of his daughter and asserts that he will continue to fight to achieve official recognition of his conversion.