Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 28, 2016
The Committee of women with disabilities of the National Council for Women held its regular meeting under the chairmanship of Dr. Hibah Hajras, a member of the Council. At the council meeting Dr. Hajras commended the efforts made by the President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī in support of persons with...
Date of source: الخميس, نيسان (أبريل) 28, 2016
On Thursday, President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī sent the Secretaries of the Republic to the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in al-ʿAbāsiyyah to congratulate His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, the Pope of Alexandria, the Patriarch of St. Mark and the Orthodox Copts on the Day of Resurrection and the Easter...
Date of source: السبت, نيسان (أبريل) 23, 2016
The Bahraini King Ḥamad Bin ʿĪsā Al- Khalīfah, expressed his pleasure in visiting the Cathedral of St. Mark in al-'Abbāsīyyah for the first time, praising the role of the Egyptian Church in national history.
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 25, 2016
In an opinion article published by Al-Yawm al-Sābi‘, on the occasion of the 34th anniversary of the liberation of Sinai, Columnist Saḥar ʿAbd al-Raḥmān praised the speech of President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī, which she said stressed the significance of national unity between the Muslims and the...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, نيسان (أبريل) 26, 2016
Member of the Parliament, Muḥammad ʿEsmat Al-Sādāt, who was recently elected as the head of the Parliamentary Committee for human rights, in an interview with Misr al-‘Arabiyya -when asked about the recent demonstrations that broke out in protest of the Egyptian government decision to concede two...
Date of source: الاثنين, نيسان (أبريل) 25, 2016
Dr. Muḥammad Nūr Faraḥāt, professor of constitutional and international law, said that the youth movements do not have the adequate and required ability to propose alternatives in the current political scene, considering that the power possessed by the youth is limited to staging protests only.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, نيسان (أبريل) 26, 2016
In his interview with Al-Waṭan, Anba Bimen, Bishop of Naqādah and Qūs in Qena and the official on charge of the Crisis Management Committee of the Orthodox Church and the ecclesial relations between Egypt and Ethiopia, is celebrating his 25th anniversary of ordination in the next month. He spoke...
Date of source: الجمعة, نيسان (أبريل) 22, 2016
The Egyptian newspapers on Friday, highlighted a number of different topics, most importantly the statements of the Minister of Defense and Military Production, Major-General Sidqī Subhī, where he confirmed during an educational seminar for the armed forces that the armed forces managed during the...
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 20, 2016
Egyptian President ʿAbd Al- Fattaḥ al- Sīsī's statements on the evaluation of the human rights situation in Egypt made during his meeting with the French President Francois Hollande sparked controversy among human rights organizations.
Date of source: الأربعاء, نيسان (أبريل) 20, 2016
In an a report published by BBC, Ghada Tanṭawi and Mariam Rizq shed light on what they described as a crackdown on artists and writers by the Egyptian Government.
“If Egypt's cultural elite had hoped that the overthrow of Islamist President Muḥammad Mursī in 2013 would usher in an era of...