Egypt’s top cleric calls polygamy ‘injustice,’ draws debate
Source: Associated Press By SAMY MAGDY CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s top Muslim cleric has stirred up controversy after saying that polygamy is an “injustice” for women, but stopped short of […]
TUNISIAN & EGYPTIAN ACTIVISTS CALL FOR POLYGAMY TO SOLVE ‘SPINSTER CRISIS’
Jerusalem Post “If some people condemn polygynous marriages it is because of imperialist and colonialist attitudes toward Muslim women”- Svetlana Peshkova, associate professor at the University of New Hampshire. BY […]
Illegal immigration, refugees top Arab-EU Summit agenda
MOHAMED AL-SHAMAA February 24, 2019 Heads of state, officials from EU and Arab League member countries to attend summit today Some 19.5 million people globally have been forced to flee […]
Macron holds surprise talks with Egypt’s Sisi, meets top clerics
By AFP – Jan 29,2019 -JORDAN TIMES CAIRO — French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday held a surprise second meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al Sisi after talks […]
Threatened with an end to Shariah divorce, Egypt’s imams work to save marriages
Source: Religion News Service By Jacob Wirtschafter and Amr El-Tohamy CAIRO (RNS) – Egypt’s skyrocketing divorce rate has spurred a debate among Muslim religious leaders and government officials about how […]
The Arabs are paying the price for peace with Israel
January 22, 2019 Mohammad Ayesh In the past few years, Israel, the alien state in the region, has been sleeping in peace in a way that it has […]
Ignorant wishful thinking has harmed our approach to Brexit – much as it did during the Arab Spring
The media scrum around College Green allows a sanitised version of events to rotate though the Westminster bubble Patrick Cockburn @indyworld The Independent Voices In the Arab Spring of 2011 […]
Is Sisi Good for Egypt’s Christians?
Source: Wall Street Journal By Marlo Safi On Thursday Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited the recently opened Coptic Cathedral of the Nativity, not far from Cairo. “It is a […]
Egypt’s Sisi opens mega-mosque and Middle East’s largest cathedral in New Capital
CAIRO (Reuters) – President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated Egypt’s largest church and mosque in the New Administrative Capital on Sunday, the eve of Coptic Christmas, in a message of […]
Ethiopia expects Nile dam to be ready to start operation in late 2020
Egypt fears project would restrict river waters from Ethiopia’s highlands By Reuters – Jan 03,2019 – JORDAN TIMES ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia’s $4 billion dam project on the Nile River, […]
Egypt’s Coptic Christians celebrate Christmas, ponder changing date
Source: Religion News Service EL KOSHEH, Egypt (RNS) — This Coptic Christian village about 280 miles south of Cairo calls itself “Little Jerusalem.” Around this time of year, many of the […]
Egyptian novel explores Christians under controlling church
Source: Associated Press By HAMZA HENDAWI CAIRO (AP) — Shady Lewis Botros says his recently published novel — “Ways of the Lord” — can be broadly viewed as an attempt […]
Egyptian court hands Muslim Brotherhood leaders life sentences: sources
Source: Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and his deputy Khairat al-Shater to life in prison, judicial sources said, in a […]
The Pope of Hope: Egypt’s Tawadros II on status of Copts, regional politics and Saudi reforms
Faisal J. Abbas December 04, 2018 Tawadros spoke about the damage inflicted on the Copts in Egypt during the Muslim Brotherhood’s rule from 2012 to 2013 Tawadros is looking […]
How a female artisan became the Arab world’s top jewelry designer and captured a cult following in Hollywood
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 […]
New discovery throws light on mystery of pyramids’ construction
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 […]
UAE, Egypt and Bahrain commend Saudi Arabia’ decrees on Khashoggi case
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 […]
Egypt extends state of emergency for another 3 months
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 […]
Egypt sentences 17 to death for Coptic Christian church attacks
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 […]
Son of Egypt’s jailed former president campaigns for father
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 […]