Tag:Egypt

Egypt: Christians Still Denied Churches While Government Opens 10 Mosques Every Week

By Raymond Ibrahim - Special to Coptic SolidarityEgyptian authorities and politicians recently held a meeting sponsored by Al Azhar, the nation’s topmost authority on...

Arrest of leading Egyptian feminist Azza Soliman sparks anger

By The GuardianHuman rights activists in Egypt have reacted angrily to the arrest of prominent women’s rights advocate Azza Soliman, saying it marked a...

New NGO legislation takes Egypt down a dangerous path

By Amr Hamzawy - The Washington PostLast week, an overwhelming majority of the Egyptian parliament passed repressive legislation regulating nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), with virtually...

Sohag Copts: All We Want Is to Pray

By Nader Shukry – WataniEfforts to persuade the Muslim villagers of al-Naghameesh in Dar-as-Salam, Sohag, some 450km south of Cairo, to allow the village...

Egypt Civil Society Urges Sisi to Reject NGO Law

By POMEDAfter the Egyptian parliament moved forward with an extremely repressive NGO law on November 29, twenty-two NGOs, four political parties, and 19 public...

The People’s Girls (بنات الناس), a short documentary that explores sexual harassment in Egypt through a series of interviews and social experiments, won the...

By Egyptian StreetsThe People’s Girls (بنات الناس), a short documentary that explores sexual harassment in Egypt through a series of interviews and social experiments,...

Before the Law for Building Churches: The Copts’ constitutional right to pray

By Youssef Sidhom – WataniI have repeatedly broached the topic of the Law for Building and Restoring Churches in my editorials. The most recent...

!تكرار العدوان على الأقباط صورة طبق الأصل

أحمد عبد التواب ـ التحريرهل توقفَتْ أجهزةٌ رسميةٌ مسئولةٌ ودرست باهتمام التفاصيل الدقيقة لما يسبق جرائم العدوان المتتالية على الأقباط الآمنين فى بعض القرى...