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Amid Egypt’s Repression, Few Alternatives

By Eric Trager – Foreign Affairs - Six years ago today, tens of thousands of Egyptians descended on downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square demanding “bread, freedom,...

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Egypt’s Failed Revolution

By By Peter Hessler - The New YorkerPresident Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has unwittingly revealed more about his country’s political structures than anybody could have imagined.The...

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Pakistan Christians bury their dead after Easter massacre

Pakistan Christians bury their dead after Easter massacreBy Asif Aqeel and World Watch Monitor staffMarch 31, 2016Parvaiz Masih didn’t know his son was among...

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Ex-wife calls EgyptAir hijacker ‘abusive’ as video emerges of passenger ‘selfie’

Ex-wife calls EgyptAir hijacker 'abusive' as video emerges of passenger 'selfie'By Fox NEWSMarch 31, 2016The ex-wife of an Egyptian man who authorities say hijacked...

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Strong Team Faces High Hurdles

Strong Team Faces High HurdlesBy - Eric Trager - The Washington InstituteMarch 30, 2016In this Thursday, March 3, 2016 photo, Fadya Shehata Moussa holds...

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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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