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By POMED – On October 16, Egypt’s former candidate for UNESCO Director-General, Moushira Khattab, revealed the potential reasons for her defeat in the UNESCO elections in a TV interview. [...]

By Ehaab Abdou – MadaMasr – (Part 1) – Before delving into a wider analysis of Egypt’s high school history textbooks, it is important to acknowledge that those from the past two [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – For Immediate Release (Washington, DC) October 2, 2017 Coptic Solidarity encourages individuals worldwide who care about religious freedom to join us on October 5 to [...]

By Albaraa Abdullah – Al-Monitor –  It appears the Egyptian government has indirectly tightened its hold on the media yet again. An Egyptian security company’s subsidiary [...]

By Ehaab Abdou – Mada Masr – Over the past few years, we’ve been hearing recurring demands for the inclusion of Coptic history in textbooks, echoed in Pope Tawadros’s call to “teach [...]

From The MEMRI Archives – In September 22, 2017, former Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide Mahdi ‘Akef (89) died in Cairo; he had held that position from early 2004 to 2010. Over the [...]

By World Watch Monitor – Two Coptic Christians in a village in Minya, Upper Egypt are facing charges of inciting sectarian strife and insulting Islamic leaders, after comments from one of [...]

By The Associated Press (APNewsBreak) – Egypt is failing to protect free speech and its minorities, investigate abuses by its forces or grant U.S. monitors access to the conflict-ridden [...]

By Egypt Independent – Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stated that human rights concepts shouldn’t be reduced to only political rights, but rather should be dealt with from a [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – Egypt’s indigenous Christians, the Copts, are under attack in a myriad of ways—from institutional and daily systematic discrimination to sporadic terrorization. While [...]