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Coptic Art: A Visual Tale of Death and Resurrection

By Egyptian Streets Christian art is often associated with Western imagery, yet it isn’t much acknowledged that Eastern forms of Christian art are also products of their own history, spiritual [...]

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MEPs condemn Egypt’s Terrorist Court Circuit prison sentence against human rights defender Bahey el-Din Hassan

Statement by Maria Arena, Chair of Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), Isabel Santos, Chair of the delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and Mounir Satouri, Foreign [...]

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Pakistan: Accusations of blasphemy continue to endanger lives

By Amnesty International The alarming uptick in blasphemy accusations across Pakistan underscores the urgency with which the draconian laws that enable abuse and risk lives must be repealed, [...]

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Egypt: Human rights defender Bahey el-Din Hassan handed outrageous 15-year prison sentence

By Amnesty International The Fifth Terrorism Circuit Court in Cairo today sentenced exiled Bahey el-Din Hassan, a prominent human rights defender, to 15 years in prison on fabricated charges [...]

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“Why don’t these black lives matter?”

By Julia Bicknell  – World Watch Monitor The question of the UK’s Lord Alton on a new UN Day recognised for only the second time this year, the International Day Commemorating the [...]

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Les coptes d’Égypte : héritiers d’Osiris et du Christ

Par Jean-François Colosimo – National Geographic – En 640, l’Égypte chrétienne passe sous le contrôle des armées arabo-musulmanes. Le destin de la communauté copte bascule : héritière [...]

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Egypt: Spate of ‘Morality’ Prosecutions of Women

By Human Rights Watch –  Egyptian authorities have since late April 2020 carried out an abusive campaign targeting female social media influencers on charges that violate their rights [...]

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After Hagia Sophia, Turkey’s historic Chora church also switched to mosque

By Reuters – Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu; Editing by Dominic Evans/Mark Heinrich Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan reconverted the historic Chora church, one of Istanbul’s most celebrated [...]

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Egypt’s National Translation Center guidelines criticized as censorship

By Mada Masr – The National Translation Center (NTC) announced controversial new guidelines on Saturday for requests to translate books, including conditions that “the book does [...]

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Beni Suef: Discovering Upper Egypt’s Hidden Gems

By Egyptian Streets – When people think of Upper Egypt, what often comes to mind is rural life, poverty, background cultural traditions, and more negative misconceptions that does not [...]