Archive: egypt
9th July 2010
It's back to Square One in Egypt on the question of divorced Christians re-marrying. In May, the Supreme Administrative Courtordered Pope Shenouda III to allow two Coptic Christians, in two separate cases, to remarry after divorce.
The Coptic church appealed, and now the Supreme Constitutional… Read more
4th July 2010
A five-storey building fell down in Cairo on Friday, killing up to eight people who were inside. The accident happened in Abdel Fattah Nasser Street in the city's Shubra district.
Collapses of buildings are a frequent occurrence in Egypt. Regarding the latest accident, al-Masry al-Youm says a… Read more
2nd July 2010
The Muslim Brotherhood (known in Arabic as "al-Ikhwan") is engaged in a rather curious project to duplicate some of the world's most popular websites with its own "Ikhwan" versions.
So far, these include Ikhwan Wiki (resembling Wikipedia), Ikhwan Tube and Ikhwan Web Tube (YouTube lookalikes), … Read more
1st July 2010
A new and potentially important development in the case of Khaled Said, the 28-year-old Egyptian who died after being brutally beatenby police. The district attorney in Alexandria has now ordered two officers from Sidi Gabr police station – Mahmoud Salah Mahmoud and Awad Ismail Suliman – to be… Read more
30th June 2010
A 38-year-old Eritrean woman was shot and killed by Egyptian border guards while trying to cross into Israel, Reuters reports. Two other women and a child were arrested.
According security sources, the dead woman was shot three times – in the stomach, right arm and left hand.
More than 60 migrants… Read more
28th June 2010
Writing for the Foreign Policy website, Soha Abdelaty discussesthe death of Khaled Said in the context of Egypt's semi-permanent (and recently renewed) emergency law:
In many ways, the case of Khaled Said is tragically symbolic of everything that is wrong with the state of emergency under which… Read more
26th June 2010
The Egyptian regime is under growing pressure to take action in the case of Khaled Said, the 28-year-old man who died while being arrested in Alexandria on June 6. Witnesses say he was severely beaten and horrific photographs of his body show extensive injuries to his head and face. The… Read more
25th June 2010
At last, someone is talking sense on the issue of Egypt's discriminatory new personal status law for non-Muslims. Yesterday, the security forces graciously allowed a group of Coptic lawyers ("of a secular disposition") to hold a 30-minute protest at the justice ministry.
The lawyers rightly pointed… Read more
24th June 2010
A second autopsy on Khaled Said, the 28-year-old Egyptian, who witnesses say was beaten to death by police, has concluded that choked on a "foreign body" (a packet of cannabis that he attempted to swallow). The report says his injuries (gruesomely pictured here) were "light" and had been sustained… Read more
22nd June 2010
Predictably, the Egyptian authorities are getting in a twist over their discriminatory new personal status law for non-Muslims (or possibly just Christians).
Separate laws for members of different religions are an inherently bad idea but, since President Mubarak wants this one to be ready within… Read more
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
