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Tag Archives: Copts
This Week in Egypt: Week 49 ( Dec 3-9)
Top Headlines Egypt says police kill two gunmen behind November attack on Coptic Christians Italy names Egyptian police in murder student case Giulio Regeni Egypt’s Sisi inaugurates Egypt’s first arms exhibition in Cairo Egyptian court orders release of prominent Wael … Continue reading
Posted in Diary of Aak, Egypt
Tagged Copts, EDEX, EDEX2018, Egypt, Italy, Mo Salah, Ranya Youssef, Regeni
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This Week in Egypt: Week 45 ( Nov 5-11)
Top Headlines Egypt puts key members of ‘al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya’ on terror list An Egyptian court has convicted 65 suspected militants of setting up a terrorist group and declaring allegiance to the extremist Islamic State group Standard & Poor’s credit rating … Continue reading
This Week in Egypt- Week 44 (Oct 29-Nov 4)
Top Headlines ISIS terror attack kill seven Copts in a bus ambush in Upper Egypt Egyptian security forces killed 19 Islamist militants from a cell believed to be responsible for an attack on Christians in Minya Egyptian security forces kill … Continue reading
Twitter Thread: NYT David Kirkpatrick and Egypt’s Copts
Journalist and International correspondent for the New York Times has recently wrote an article in Church Times about Egypt’s Copts and their relationship with the Egyptian President Sisi. The article was full of disputed ideas that were promptly addressed by Samuel Tadros, … Continue reading
Posted in Diary of Aak, Egypt, Twitter Thread
Tagged Copts, David Kirkpatrick, Egypt, Samuel Tadros, Sisi
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This Week in Egypt: Week 35 (Aug 27-Sept 2)
Top Headlines Ethiopian PM and Egyptian President Hold Talks In Beijing Egypt’s Sisi appoints Major General Sherif Seif El-Din Hussein as new head of the country’s anti-corruption authority Egypt‘s Sisi ratifies law to clamp down on social media Manal Mikhail … Continue reading
This Week in Egypt: Week 27-2018 ( July 2-8)
Top Headlines Egypt Air flight MS804 crash “caused by cockpit fire”, French investigators find Lebanese tourist sentenced to over 8 years in prison for insulting Egypt in a viral video Egypt opens Rafah border with Gaza, allowing passage in both … Continue reading
Posted in Diary of Aak, Egypt
Tagged Abu-tre, Abu-Treika, Copts, Egypt, Egypt Air flight MS804, Football, Lebanese tourist, LetsCoptsPlay
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This Week in Egypt- Week 52-Last Week of 2017
Top Headlines Gunman kills 9 in Egypt church attack claimed by ISIS Egypt hangs 15 militants convicted of 2013 Sinai attacks Egypt security forces kill three suspected militants, arrest 10 others British woman accused of bringing 300 painkiller tablets into … Continue reading
Social Islamism In Egypt
An English version of my original Arabic piece in Al-Hurra Amr Salama’s Movie’s Sheikh Jackson In recent days, in Egypt, an Oscar-nominated film was referred to Al-Azhar, a crowd of Muslim worshippers attacked a church, and an actress became the focus … Continue reading
Posted in Best Read, Diary of Aak, Egypt
Tagged Amr Salama, Copts, Egypt, Islamism, Itfih, Prince Tawadros church, Sherene Reda, Sherine Reda, Social Islamism
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This Week in Egypt: Week 51-2017 (Dec 18-24)
Top Headlines Egyptian security forces on Sunday killed nine suspected militants in a shootout in the Nile Delta province of Sharqiya IS-affiliated media outlet releases video footage of al-Arish airbase attack Britain designates 2 militant groups in Egypt as terrorist … Continue reading
Posted in Diary of Aak, Egypt
Tagged Atfih, Copts, Egypt, Hasm, ISIS, Prince Tawadros church, UK, Wilayet Sinai
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This Week in Egypt: Week 41-2017 ( Oct 9-15)
Top Headlines Several armed attacks in Egypt’s Sinai Egypt extends state of emergency for three months Coptic priest stabbed to death in Egypt Egypt loses in UNESCO runoff vote to French candidate Main Headlines Monday Sisi rewards each player of … Continue reading
Posted in Diary of Aak, Egypt
Tagged Copts, Egypt, ISIS, Qatar, Sinai, Sisi, UNESCO, Wilayet Sinai
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