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By Coptic Solidarity – The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) published an insightful report this week titled Personal Status and Family Law in the Middle East and [...]

Please sign this petition, urging your US Legislators to pressure Egypt to end the trafficking of Coptic women! Watch H.H. Pope Tawadros II Urge Egyptian Authorities to end the [...]

By Madeleine Nader – Watani On 14 March 2021, Egypt’s State Council approved the appointment of a number of women judges, a first in the history of the Council. The State Council is Egypt’s [...]

By Egypt Independent Egyptian journalist and media personality Ibrahim Issa has called for Christian history and culture to be included as part of the nation’s educational curricula, both in [...]

By Marwa Al-A’sar – Al-Monitor Recent remarks by a well-known Egyptian TV presenter on women’s Islamic headgear have stirred up a heated debate between secular and [...]

By Deutsche Welle via Egypt Independent – In countries that practice Islamic law, legal reforms to advance the status of women tend to fail due to hard-liners who see it undermining [...]

By Noha Elhennawy – AP  CAIRO — One Egyptian woman is taking on the country’s inheritance laws that mean female heirs inherit half that of men. Since her father’s death last year, Huda [...]

By Al-Monitor – Egyptian member of parliament Ghada Ajami of the Support Egypt bloc submitted a controversial bill Oct. 30 that stirred a wide debate about the rights of citizens to be able [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Special for CS – An Arabic-language video recently appeared of a Muslim cleric in Egypt addressing how terrorists misuse Islamic scriptures to justifying killing [...]

By Samuel Smith – The Christian Post – A Coptic journalist has detailed her frustration living as a woman in an Egyptian society where men regularly treat Christian woman as whores, [...]