Azza Fahmy is the first woman to ever train with a master goldsmith in Egypt. Over the past 50 years, she’s built a global artisanal jewelry brand. From pharaconic collars […]
Egyptologists stumble across ramp that helps explain how huge blocks of stones were hauled into place Kevin Rawlinson Tue 6 Nov 2018 The ramp appears to date from about the […]
ARAB NEWS October 20, 2018 UAE, Egypt and Bahrain issued statements commending Saudi Arabia’s royal decrees Saudi Arabia’s highest religious body, the Council of Senior Scholars, said the king’s decisions […]
Source: Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has extended its state of emergency for another three months. The government declared a state of emergency after an Islamic State affiliate bombed […]
Source: BBC News Seventeen people have been sentenced to death by an Egyptian military court over their involvement in bomb attacks on Coptic Christian churches. A further 19 people were […]
Source: Associated Press By BRIAN ROHAN CAIRO (AP) — Once a month, Abdullah waits outside Cairo’s notorious Tora prison for hours, standing without shade under the blazing Egyptian sun for […]
Source: Associated Press By HAMZA HENDAWI CAIRO (AP) — An autopsy on a Coptic Orthodox monk who had until recently belonged to a monastery northwest of Cairo where the abbot […]
Source: Associated Press By HAMZA HENDAWI CAIRO (AP) — In an incident that brought the woes of one of the world’s oldest churches back under the spotlight, Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox […]
Source: Religion News Service By Jacob Wirtschafter CAIRO – The Coptic Orthodox community in Egypt is reeling from the recent murder of the abbot of St. Macarius Monastery, apparently by traditionalists […]
AFSHIN MOLAVI September 09, 2018 In the early days of the Arab uprisings, when hope still mingled with smoke on the streets of Cairo, a prominent Egyptian investor, Ahmed Heikal, […]
Source: BBC News Egypt has delivered verdicts for more than 700 people over a pro-Muslim Brotherhood sit-in after President Mohammed Morsi was ousted in 2013. The court confirmed 75 people’s […]
Source: Associated Press By MENNA ZAKI CAIRO (AP) — Hala Shiha quit the glamorous film industry a decade ago to embrace a more religious lifestyle, adopting the traditional Muslim headscarf, […]
Source: The New York Times By Declan Walsh WADI NATRUN, Egypt — Christian monks living in the solitude of Egypt’s deserts have always faced the threat of attack from outside. […]
Source: Associated Press By HAMZA HENDAWI and SAMY MAGDY CAIRO (AP) — It reads like a murder mystery set in an exotic locale: an abbot found dead in a desert […]
Reuters International This content was published on August 15, 2018 A truck carrying goods arrives at Kerem Shalom crossing in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 15, 2018. REUTERS/Ibraheem […]
Source: Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced five people, including the head of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, to life in prison on violence-related charges. It’s […]
Coptic monk arrested over murder of bishop in Egypt Coptic monk arrested over murder of bishop in Egypt Source: The Guardian The murder of a prominent bishop in a Coptic […]
Prosecutors in Egypt have charged a defrocked monk with the murder of a Coptic Christian Bishop at a desert monastery. Bishop Epiphanius, 64, was found dead in a pool […]
By Reuters – Aug 06,2018 – JORDAN TIMES A Palestinian worker carries a cylinder to be filled with cooking gas imported from Egypt in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on Monday […]
Egypt Coptic Church stops accepting monks after bishop death By MENNA ZAKI Source: Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church said Thursday it will not be taking in […]
