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Gamal al Ghitani, Egyptian Novelist With a Political Bent, Dies at 70

  Gamal al-Ghitani, a former carpet designer who switched careers to become one of Egypt’s most acclaimed novelists, died on Sunday in Cairo. He was...

Mapping Election Runoffs: Parties versus Independents

    Elections kicked off last week with voters in 14 of Egypt's 27 governorates heading to the polls to cast votes for party-list candidates and...

Somali-Based Al-Shabaab Pledges Allegiance to ISIL

    In the video, Abdul Qadir Mumin, who ranks high in Al-Shabaab’s power structure, and several other of the group’s jihadists based in Somalia’s Central...

Pope Tawadros Inaugurates Theology School in LA

    Participating in the event were the Dean of Claremont School of Theology and Egypt’s Consul General in Los Angeles Lamia Mikhaymar.   The Pope gave a...

‘For the Love of Egypt’ Only Alliance to Secure Seats

    The “For the Love of Egypt” alliance won 60 list-based seats in the first phase of the Egyptian parliamentary elections, according to the High...

Egypt’s Endowments Ministry Forbids Shi’ite Celebrations

    The rituals performed on the Day of Ashura include acts of self-inflicting pain, which Sunnis deem contradictory to Islam.   “The Endowments Ministry and Al-Azhar fight...

Christians Almost Completely Destroyed By ISIS in Syria: Aleppo Archbishop

    The stark assessment of life for the persecuted religious minority under ISIS control comes from Jean-Clement Jeanbart, the Greek Melkite Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo.   He...

Coptic Candidates in Parliament Election Runoff in Minya

    Sherif Nady and Rafiq Ramy; two Coptic individual candidates from the governorate’ constituency of Malawi City, have qualified to the runoffs in the parliament...

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