Translated from the original for CAA by Ed Shafik. Alexandria- Egypt (Routers): On September 21st 2010, distinguished scientists representing 13 countries will participate in the first International Conference for Early Coptic Studies. This conference is sponsored by the Alexandria Librar...

 هاني سمير تظاهر 300 من أقباط كندا وأمريكا مساء أمس - الخميس - أمام البوابة الرئيسية للبيت الأبيض بواشنطن بالتزامن مع لقاء الرئيس حسني مبارك ونظيره الأمريكي باراك أوباما لاستئناف المفاوضات المباشرة بين الجانبين الفلسطيني والإسرائيلي، وذلك للاحتجاج علي ما يعانيه الأقباط في مصر من مشكلات. ورفع...

 عمرو بيومي يسري البدري قررت مصلحة الأحوال المدنية الامتناع عن إصدار بطاقات شخصية للقساوسة الأرثوذكس أو أبنائهم بالاسم الكهنوتي، كما طالبتهم الوزارة بالعودة إلى أسمائهم المدنية المدونة في شهادات الميلاد. وتقدم العشرات من كهنة الكنيسة الأرثوذكسية بشكاوي إلى البابا شنودة الثالث، بابا الإسكندر...

 الاسكندرية (مصر) (رويترز) - يشارك علماء بارزون من 13 دولة عربية وأجنبية في المؤتمر الدولي الاول للدراسات القبطية الذي ينظمه مركز دارسات الخطوط بمكتبة الاسكندرية يوم 21 سبتمبر أيلول الجاري ويستعرض جوانب من العصر القبطي في مصر قبل دخول العرب الى البلاد عام 640 ميلادية. ويمثل الباحثون جامعات ومر...

 ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, AUG. 30, 2010 (Catholic.net).- Though Egypt is a Muslim country with a small Christian minority, harmonious coexistence is often the norm, according to the patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church in the country. Patriarch Antonios Naguib is the leader of the main Catholic c...

BBC, 9/2/2010 -  A doctor in Egypt is being taken to court for carrying out an illegal operation to circumcise young girls. It follows the death of a 13-year-old, from a village in the Nile Delta, in the north of the country. An investigation has raised fears that the practice of female genit...

Wall Street Journal, 9/1/2010 —The Obama administration is facing pressure from Congress and human-rights groups to press Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak to open up his country's political system ahead of presidential elections there next year. President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet the 82...

LA Times, 8/30/2010 Three lawyers have filed a lawsuit against President Hosni Mubarak, holding him indirectly responsible for the disappearance of a priest's wife following her alleged conversion from Christianity to Islam. Kamelia Shehata Zakher, wife of priest Thaddeus Samaan Rizk of Mowas Prio...

8/31/2010 - Cairo, Egypt (AHN) - Egypt's most senior Coptic Christian cleric, Pope Shenouda III, may be summoned to court and forced to release an alleged convert to Islam. A group of Islamist lawyers has appealed to Egypt's administrative court demanding that the Coptic Church release Camillia She...

8/29/2010 - Global Voices Advocacy On 1st July, 2010, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior (MOI) has reportedly established a special department to monitor Facebook activities and content in Egypt according to the administrative decision 765. Based on the Kuwaiti newspaper Aljarida, this new MOI depa...

 CAIRO Aug 31 2010 (Reuters) - An Egyptian man imprisoned last year for advocating Shi'a Islam and released last week under a court order was detained again a few days later, a human rights group said on Tuesday. Mohamed Farouk was among 11 minority Shi'ites arrested in April and May 2009 for ...

 Alarabiya, 9/1/2010 Wife of controversial Egyptian rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim denied reports that her husband signed a document supporting the presidency of Gamal Mubarak, son of the incumbent Hosni Mubarak. Dr. Barbara Ibrahim dismissed allegations that her husband, sociology profes...

 By Marwa Awad - CAIRO, Aug 30 2010 (Reuters) - Pro-democracy activist Saadeddin Ibrahim has signed a petition supporting the political ambitions of the Egyptian president's son, riling the opposition who say the move undermines their call for political change. The move by Ibrahim, a long...

 AP, 9/2/2010 CAIRO — A group of activists have hung up posters around Egypt's capital supporting the country's intelligence chief as a possible candidate in next year's presidential elections. Launched Thursday, the campaign for Omar Suleiman is the latest stab against a possible fat...

 The Daily Star Lebanon, 8/31/2010 A number of recent indicators point toward a gathering momentum in Egypt for Gamal Mubarak to succeed his father Hosni in the presidential election slated for next year. Posters have sprouted throughout Cairo touting Mubarak the younger’s economic achie...

 Hareetz, 8/31/2010 Gamal Mubarak, son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, will accompany his father to this week's Washington peace summit in what may be the clearest sign yet that he is being groomed for the succession. Gamal has long been the center of speculation that he will replace his...

Democracy Digest, 9/1/2010 Egyptian democracy advocates today warned that the Obama Administration will jeopardize prospects for Middle East peace and boost the region’s “dark forces” if it colludes in the dynastic succession of President Hosni Mubarak’s son. The U.S. shoul...

TIME, 9/2/2010 One fascinating subplot of the Middle East peace talks in Washington this week is the role of Egyptian president/dictator Hosni Mubarak. The 82-year old Mubarak, who has long governed Egypt with an iron fist--but has served as a useful strategic partner for America--is very old, visi...

 The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release September 01, 2010 Readout of President Obama's Meeting with President Mubarak of Egypt President Obama and President Mubarak met today and reaffirmed the strong ties between Egypt and the United States of America. The ...

 By Marwa Al-A’sar / Daily News Egypt August 30, 2010 CAIRO: The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council has selected prominent activist Aida Seif El-Dawla among four nominees for the position of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR...

 Translated for CAA from the original article by Sara Alam published 8/27/2010 Quranist leader Dr. Ahmed Sobhy Mansour expressed fear that the authorities will again prevent his half brother Abdel Latif Said from accompanying Mansour's mother to the United States for treatment. According to hi...

 في ذكري الأربعين لإنتقال القمص "بولس باسيلي" - علمتني يا أبي أن الحياة مهما طالت، فهي قصيرة، لا تكفي لتحقيق كل أحلامنا. في سنين حياتك الأربعة والتسعين، حققت انجازات هائلة في مجالات عديدة، وكأنك- كما قال عنك قداسة البابا "شنودة"، مجموعة من الناس في رجل واحد. لكنك أردت أن ت...

 8/26/2010 (AINA) -- Egyptians, Muslims and Christians alike, are closely watching the controversy associated with the Ground Zero Mosque project, though for different reasons. The Egyptian media is giving this issue full coverage with articles mostly accusing Americans of Islamophobia, an...

U.S. News&Report, 8/20/2010  Amr Hamzawy is research director and senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. BEIRUT--Throughout most of the Arab world, poverty, unemployment, and illiteracy rates are on the rise while the quality of education, healthcare, and social sa...

 CAIRO, Aug. 23 2010 (UPI) -- A Muslim Brotherhood boycott of elections set for Egypt in November is the best way to convince Cairo to pursue political change, Mohamed ElBaradei declared. ElBaradei, a former U.N. nuclear watchdog chief, returned to Cairo in February adding fuel to speculation ...

The Independent, 8/24/2010 So here comes the latest Egyptian joke about 82-year-old President Hosni Mubarak. The president, a keen squash player – how else could he keep his jet-black hair? – calls up the sheikh of Al-Azhar, the highest Sunni Muslim cleric in the land, to ask if there a...

BBC, 8/24/2010 Egypt's opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, has launched its own Facebook-style social networking site. A senior member of the banned Islamist group says the aim is to spread awareness of moderate Islamic values. The Brotherhood's version - Ikhwanbook - looks similar to Fa...

 (UKPA) – 8/26/2010 Egypt has been experiencing its worst power outages in decades since the daily dawn-to-dusk fast for the holy month of Ramadan began two weeks ago. The power cuts have struck at the height of summer, amid temperatures of around 100 degrees, rising food prices and...

 8/27/2010 - CAIRO (Reuters) - The son of Egypt's leader said on Thursday that food subsidies were easing the burden of rising prices in an interview on state television that boosted his public profile ahead of a 2011 presidential election. President Hosni Mubarak, in power since 1981, ha...

 CAIRO, Aug 25 2010 (Reuters) - Egypt's ruling party backs veteran President Hosni Mubarak, 82, for another term if he seeks one next year, officials said on Wednesday, while adding that his son Gamal could also be among possible future candidates. The remarks were consistent with positions th...

 CAIRO Aug 21 2010 (Reuters) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has accepted an invitation by the United States to attend the launch of direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians that aim to reach a peace deal within 12 months, state media said. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said...

NPR, 8/26/2010 Young Egyptians are using social media to fight police brutality and urge a more open government. Critics say that not a single Arab dictator has been overthrown by protests on the Web. But young activists say their goal is to raise awareness among Egyptians. Wael Abbas is one of th...

 August 26, 2010 | LA Times Businessman and head of Wafd political party, Sayed Badawi has concluded the acquisition of Egypt's biggest opposition and most outspoken newspaper, Al Dustour. "A number of shareholders, who believe in Al Dustour's role in defending liberties and calls for...

 GulfNews, 8/27/2010 Not only is human rights on the top of agendas across the world, it is becoming the focal point of most Egyptians' conversations, from intellectual circles and official think-tanks to people on the street, making it the topic of the hour in the Arab world's most populous c...

 Aug 26th 2010 | The Economist FOR the past decade, Gamal Mubarak, the son of President Hosni Mubarak and now the number two in Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), has denied any wish to succeed his father. When asked about his future, the younger Mubarak prefers to say only ...

 لجمعة، 27 أغسطس 2010 - 15:14 زعيم القرآنيين أحمد صبحى منصور كتبت سارة علام عبر الدكتور "أحمد صبحى منصور" زعيم القرآنيين عن مخاوفه من منع السلطات لأخيه غير الشقيق "عبد اللطيف سعيد" من السفر للولايات المتحدة لعلاج والدة "منصور" والتى لا تستطيع السفر لأى مكان دو...

 LA TImes, 8/24/10 - The Popular Coalition for Supporting Gamal Mubarak launched a campaign to promote the nomination of the president's son in next year's elections. But millions of Egyptians have been wondering about the real force behind the movement. Last month marked the beginning of...

AP, 8/22/10 - CAIRO — Posters have sprouted up around Egypt promoting President Hosni Mubarak's younger son as the country's next leader, in the most overt campaign yet for a controversial father-son succession in this key U.S. Arab ally. For the last decade, it has been believed that Gamal M...

 Article translated for CAA by Ed Shafik from the original article by Ebtasam Thalb & Mauhmoud Ramsy, published in AlMasry Alyoum on 8-19-2010 In a meeting held at Hizb Al Tagammo, representatives from four Egyptian Political Parties (Hizb El Wafd, Nasserist Party, Hizb al Tagammo, and H...

 AFP, 8/20/2010 - CAIRO — An Egyptian doctor has been arrested after she performed a botched circumcision that killed a young girl, a newspaper reported on Friday. The independent daily Shorouk reported that police were alerted to the death of the girl, whose body was illegally bu...

 سامي البحيري GMT 14:00:00 2010 الخميس 22 يوليو من أجمل النكت القديمة والتى أتذكرها دائما فى ذكرى 23 يوليو عام 1952، هو أن مقدمة برنامج على الناصية آمال فهمى إقتربت من أحد المواطنين وقالت له: إحنا دلوقت بنحتفل بذكرى "ثورة" 23 يوليو، ياترى تقدر تقول لنا رأيك فى الثورة؟ فقال المواطن: ...

 ابتسام تعلب ومحمود رمزى 19/ 8/ 2010 تصوير ــ محمد حسام الدين جانب من اجتماع قيادات الأحزاب بمقر حزب التجمع اتفقت أحزاب الائتلاف الرباعى «الوفد والناصرى والتجمع والجبهة» على ضرورة دعوة مجلس الشعب للانعقاد فى نوفمبر المقبل لتجنب «المأزق الدستورى» الخاص بالمادة 101 م...

 أجري الحوار‏:‏ محـمـد ربـيــع الأهرام المسائي تفتح ملفات إصلاح الفكر الديني إيمانا منها بضرورة إعمال العقل وإطلاق الاجتهاد إلي مداه الواسع‏,‏ دعوة منها إلي وسطية دينية ـإسلامية ومسيحية‏ ويقينا منها أن إصلاح الفكر الديني يعد الخطوة الأول علي طريق المواطنة والحرية والإسهام...

 أخشى أن يتحول وفد سعد إلى.. وفد سعاد!! خليل حنا رزق عضو حزب الوفد بالقاهرة أما سعد فهو الزعيم خالد الذكر "سعد باشا زغلول– مؤسس حزب الوفد ومفجر ثورة الوحدة الوطنية" وأما سعاد فهي فضيلة الشيخة "سعاد صالح"– مفتية حزب الوفد ومكفرة الأقباط" ففي أول أيام انضما...

 نبيل المقدس تكلمنا كثيرًا.. تحدثنا كثيرًا.. كتبنا كثيرًا.. نبرنا كثيرًا.. مجادلات تليفزيونية كثيرة، وبرامج إذاعية كثيرة، ومنتديات كثيرة "Forums".. مؤتمرات كثيرة, كل هذا حول كيفية إقامة دولة علمانية أساسها قوانين مدنية. لم يكن هذا المطلب من فئة معينة في مصر، بل طالبت به الكثير من فئ...

  توصيل الأذي إلي المنازل تحقيق ـ فاطمة العربي يستطيع الأعمي الذي لا يغادر بيته ولا يكلم أحدا أن يتعرف علي شهر رمضان‏,‏ فبمجرد الإعلان عن رؤية هلال الشهر الكريم‏,‏ تنطلق مكبرات الصوت في المساجد بالأدعية المتواصلة‏,‏ وقراءة القرآن الكريم‏,‏والخطب التي يميل كثير...

Wall Street Journal, 8/18/2010 What do the controversies around the proposed mosque near Ground Zero, the eviction of American missionaries from Morocco earlier this year, the minaret ban in Switzerland last year, and the recent burka ban in France have in common? All four are framed in the Western...

VOA, 8/17/2010 Today, we continue looking at the question of whether new media - Facebook, blogging, tweeting - can bring democracy to the Middle East. We've heard from those who are critical of U.S. attempts to train Arab youth to be political activists. They argue that new media function mere...

CAIRO (Reuters) - A campaign led by potential presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei has gathered some 770,000 signatures to press for constitutional change in Egypt, its members say, adding impetus to demands for political reform. The National Coalition for Change began online, has taken to the ...

8/18/2010 - Times Live The head of the Coptic Church in Egypt has warned followers that the police in the country are wiretapping their calls and said they should not confess sins over the phone, media reported Wednesday. Pope Shenouda III has said police listen in on calls and the confessor cou...