Date of source: الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 16, 2012
Field Marshal Husayn Tantāwī, Commander in Chief of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, has confirmed at a military ceremony that Egypt is not for a certain group but for all Egyptians. He said that the Armed Forces will never allow it any other way and that the Armed Forces will protect Egypt...
Date of source: الأحد, تموز (يوليو) 1, 2012
Dr. Muhammad Mursī took the constitutional oath before the general assembly of the Supreme Constitutional Court at its headquarters in the southern Cairo suburb of al-Ma’ādī on Saturday (June 3) to become the first president of Egypt after the January 25, 2012 revolution. [Author Not Mentioned, al-...
Date of source: الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 6, 2012
Al-Minya Governor Sirāj al-Dīn al-Rūbī officially rebuked an undersecretary of social affairs for refusing to congratulate Christians on the Coptic Christmas after administrative prosecution probes proved his violation of his position’s protocol. [Māhir ‘Abd al-Sabūr, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, June 6, p...
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 25, 2012
Counselor Tharwat Hammād, the judge investigating the October 9, 2011 deadly incidents outside the state radio & TV building in Maspero, ordered Michael ‘Ādil and Michael Shākir be referred to the Cairo Criminal Court on charges of stealing an concealing a machinegun owned by the armed forces...
Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 22, 2012
Pressures are being practiced to convince acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius to quit his current interim position to officially run in the elections to select a new pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church in succession of deceased Pope Shenouda III. ['Abd al-Wahāb, al-Wafd, April 22, p. 1] Read original...
Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 15, 2012
Orthodox Copts received the Easter with a mournful mood over the death of Pope Shenouda III at the Saint Mark Cathedral in the Cairo district of al-‘Abbāssīyah led by acting patriarch Bishop Pachomius. [Ashraf Sādiq, al-Ahrām, April 15, p. 6] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 5, 2012
Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate Khayrat al-Shātir said the implementation of the Islamic sharī’ah is his "lifetime project," adding there is no bargaining over it. [Muhammad Rādī, al-Akhbār, April 5, p. 7] Read original text in Arabic
Date of source: السبت, آذار (مارس) 31, 2012
Several scholars of the Azhar and its affiliate Islamic Research Academy welcomed the top Sunnī establishment’s decision to withdraw its only representative, former Muftī of the Republic Dr. Nasr Farīd Wāsil, from the constituent assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt. [Ahmad ‘Uways, al-...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آذار (مارس) 20, 2012
Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) endorsed an announcement of public morning in Egypt over the death of Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III, who passed away this week at the age of 89. [Walā’ Wahīd, al-Wafd, March 20, 2012] Read text in...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آذار (مارس) 20, 2012
MEMRI provided a clip of Muslim preacher, Shaykh Wajdī Ghunaym (Wagdy Ghoneim) speaking about the death of Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III, cursing him and wishing him to burn in hell. Read MEMRI article here