The Associated Press CTV NEWS Published Monday, July 1, 2013 7:16AM EDT Egypt’s military issued a “last-chance” ultimatum Monday to President Mohammed Morsi, giving him 48 hours to meet the demands of millions of protesters in the streets seeking the ouster of the Islamist leader or the generals will intervene […]
Iran’s Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi has warned that the United States and Israel are the sole beneficiaries of sectarian division in the Muslim world. In a Wednesday interview, Vahidi condemned […]
Source: Asia Times: Is Egypt on the verge of civil war? General Fua’d Al’lam, a general in the Egyptian Security Services and former Director of Security in Port Said, believes that it is. In an interview entitled, “Civil War on the Doorstep Followed by the Revolution of the Hungry,” General […]
Agence France Presse ARABNEWS Tuesday 25 June 2013 CAIRO: Egypt’s Tourism Minister Hesham Zazou was back at work yesterday after the newly appointed governor of Luxor quit following an outcry […]
Source: BBC The army in Egypt has warned it will not allow the country to descend into “uncontrollable conflict”. More:
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – A new data analysis finds that the onset of the Arab Spring in late 2010 did not spark new freedoms for people of the region, but instead, has led to more global restrictions on religion. A Pew Research Center study finds that in the years since […]
By Jana El Hassan The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY “Human beings are destroying themselves,” said luminary Noam Chomsky, warning that unrest in Syria could turn into a Sunni-Shiite conflict that […]
AFP | Jun 15, 2013 | 23:38 JORDAN TIMES CAIRO — Thousands of Islamists rallied in the Egyptian capital this weekend in support of calls by Sunni Muslim clerics for a holy war against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The demonstration took place outside a Cairo mosque on […]
Reuters in Addis Ababa guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 June 2013 15.05 BST Ethiopia’s parliament has unanimously ratified a treaty that strips Egypt of its right to the lion’s share of the […]
Amnesty International: Criminal “defamation of religion” charges must be dropped in a number of cases across Egypt, Amnesty International said today after a teacher was convicted for insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad in the classroom. A Luxor court on Tuesday fined Coptic Christian teacher Dimyana Obeid Abd Al Nour […]
Source: The Local The official said Sven Lau was turned back at the airport after arriving onboard a KLM flight from Amsterdam.The German news agency DPA also identified him as Sven Lau, a fiery Islamist preacher whose group’s offices were raided by German police in 2010. More:
CAIRO: ARAB NEWS Saturday 8 June 2013 An envoy from Al-Azhar in Cairo, raised the prospect of restoring ties with the Vatican yesterday but called on Pope Francis to take […]
Source: TOI CAIRO: Egypt’s supreme constitutional court ruled as illegal the law by which the upper house of parliament was elected but said that the chamber would not be dissolved until a new parliament is in place, judicial sources said. More:
Source: TOI CAIRO: Egypt could close the strategic Suez Canal to ships from countries like China that are helping Ethiopia build a controversial dam that threatens supply of Nile water to the country, a top opposition leader has said. “The state is capable of holding talks with the countries financing […]
Source: indexoncensorship.org An Egyptian Christian primary school teacher has gone into hiding after pupils accused her of blasphemy. Shahira Amin reports. Dimyana Abdel Nour, a 24 year-old social studies teacher at Naga El […]
By Henry Dimbleby, Guardian News Service 2013 Mint tea only really appeared on my gastronomic radar about 10 years ago, during a research trip to the Egyptian city of Alexandria. […]
SANLIURFA, Turkey — I’ve been traveling to Yemen, Syria and Turkey to film a documentary on how environmental stresses contributed to the Arab awakening. As I looked back on the trip, it occurred to me that three of our main characters — the leaders of the two Yemeni villages that […]
Last Sunday, Pope Francis canonized the 800 Christian martyrs executed by Muslim Ottoman forces raiding southern Italy in 1480.According to reports coming from Rome, the 800 were killed because they […]
NERVANA MAHMOUD Special to The Globe and Mail On late Saturday, Pope Tawadros II led his first Easter Mass as head of the ancient Coptic Christian Church in Egypt by […]
by Susan Vogel-Misicka, swissinfo.ch May 2, 2013 – 11:00 Egyptian property developer and billionaire Samih Sawiris is confident his first venture in Europe, the Andermatt Swiss Alps resort, will be […]