The New Egypt As Seen From the Coptic Christmas Mass

The Church's dilemma was twofold. First was the question of invitations. Every Christmas, the Church sends invitations to governmental, political, and civil-society figures to...

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The Obama-Brotherhood Love Affair Heats Up

The results of the Burns-Morsi get-together actually contained no great surprises for those who believe the Democratic Party's support of the Arab Spring is...

- January 17, 2012 0

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Watching Elephants Fly (in Egypt)

Come with me to Cairo’s dirt-poor Shubra el-Khema neighborhood and the dilapidated Omar Abdel Aziz School, where I watched the last round of voting...

- January 10, 2012 0

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From Nasser’s Ideological Hotchpotch to an Islamist Landslide

- January 9, 2012 0

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American Interests in a ‘Balance Between Military and Islamists’

A core of activists still come to Tahrir Square, but the real game is farther afield, where Islamist parties have mobilized tens of thousands...

- January 4, 2012 0

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An Old Egyptian Tradition: A Military that Brutalizes Citizens

While the Ottoman Janissaries, who terrorized Europe for centuries, are the most notorious of Islam's slave soldiers, Egypt's Mamluks—the word mamluk simply means "owned"—actually...

- January 4, 2012 0

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Hamas Openly Joins Brotherhood

Haniyeh described Hamas as the Palestinian branch of the Brotherhood. Referring to their alliance Haniyeh said, “Our presence with the Brotherhood threatens the Israeli...

- January 4, 2012 0

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Egypt’s Obstructionist Generals

- December 31, 2011 0

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Egypt: Copt and son killed in IS attack September 7, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesPrayers in Deir El-Garnouse Coptic church, near Al-Minya in Upper Egypt, after Islamic State opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts, killing at least 28 people in May 2017. A Christian father and son were killed by suspected Islamic State militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on 30 August. The two Copts, Salama […]
Egypt: Father and son stabbed in latest attack on Copts August 12, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesCopts in Egypt have been targeted in a string of attacks this year. An elderly Coptic Christian and his son who run an off-license shop in Giza, central Egypt, were hospitalized after they were severely injured in an attack. Joseph Israel, 70, was sitting outside his shop in the Omrania district in […]
Egypt: Copt stabbed seven times by neighbour who’d lured in his son March 24, 2022
An Egyptian Christian was stabbed multiple times when he tried to rescue his son who was held against his will by a Muslim neighbour in Alexandria. On the night of 15 February, Magdy Fathy Shehata Awad Allah, deacon at the Coptic Orthodox Church in the northeast of Alexandria and a human rights activist, was rushed […]
Egypt: Coptic Christian imprisoned for 5 years for ‘blasphemy’ February 9, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesA police man enters a prison on the outskirts of Egypt’s capital Cairo. A Coptic Christian has been sentenced to five years in prison for blasphemy, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, or EIPR, which represented him during his trial. On 29 January the Cairo Economic Court found Marco Gerges […]

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