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By Youssef Sidhom – Watani I have repeatedly broached the topic of the Law for Building and Restoring Churches in my editorials. The most recent was last week’s; it tackled the open question of [...]

أحمد عبد التواب ـ التحرير هل توقفَتْ أجهزةٌ رسميةٌ مسئولةٌ ودرست باهتمام التفاصيل الدقيقة لما يسبق جرائم العدوان المتتالية على الأقباط الآمنين فى بعض القرى النائية فى الصعيد؟ ألا يلفت النظر هذا [...]

By Steven A. Cook – Foreign Affairs – In a half-decade of extraordinary moments in the Middle East, /images of citizens swarming tanks and other military vehicles have been among the [...]

By Nader Shukry – Watani For Copts, the Law for Building and Restoring Churches they had so long aspired for was passed last August. So now they finally have in hand a law to ensure their [...]

By Mada Masr – Egypt’s Parliament hastily approved a new NGO law on Tuesday, just a day after the State Council concluded it has no indications of unconstitutionality. Parliamentarian and [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive for Coptic Solidarity – A man hurled an improvised bomb at the entrance of a packed church in Egypt in what observers say could’ve been a repeat of the [...]

By Sudarsan Raghavan  – The Independent A ‘disturbing wave of radicalism’ has deepened sectarian tensions, pitting neighbour against neighbour The Christian and Muslim villagers grew up [...]

By Sahar Nasr – Wall Street Journal – Unlocking the country’s potential through private-sector-led growth free of the heavy hand of the state. *** Earlier this month, Egypt announced a [...]

By Egyptian Streets – The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) estimated that the total population reaches 92 million by 8 pm on Thursday, November 24, less than [...]

Ziad Bahaa-Eldin – Al-Ahram – It’s perfectly normal for a law to be drafted and tabled by parliamentarians—the constitution states that bills can be submitted to the House by the government [...]