By DANIELA PETROFF The Star Pope Francis on Sunday decried a deadly attack on a Coptic church in Egypt during Palm Sunday celebrations, just weeks before his planned visit to Cairo. The pontiff expressed his “deep condolences” to the Coptic patriarch, Tawadros II, calling him “my brother,” to the Coptic church and “all of the … Continued
By Sharif Abdel Kouddous The Nation Eleven days before Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was due to travel to Washington for his first White House visit, Aya Hegazy was escorted from her cell in the Qanater women’s prison, where she has been locked up for nearly three years, to the Abdeen courthouse in downtown Cairo … Continued
By Arabian Supply Chain Staff Amazon is in the process of finalising plans for a logistics centre in Egypt, with a number of companies having applied for the distribution tender. Hany Kesis, former chairperson of Egyptian-American Business Council, was quoted by the Daily News Egypt as saying that a number of Egyptian companies have begun … Continued
By Gavin Jones Reuters Pope Francis will make a trip to Egypt next month, the Vatican said on Saturday, giving the pontiff another opportunity to promote better relations between Catholics and Muslims. Francis has accepted an invitation to Cairo on April 28-29 from President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Catholic bishops, the pope of the Coptic church … Continued
By Thomas Page CNN A team of archaeologists has discovered a giant 3,000-year-old statue thought to depict Ramses II, in what the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities is describing as “one of [its] most important archaeological discoveries.” Archaeologists from Egypt and Germany began removing the quartzite statue — estimated to stand 30 feet tall — from … Continued
BY: Nisreen Eadeh/Staff Writer Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been acquitted on Thursday over his alleged participation in the killings of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 Arab Spring. After a day long trial in the Court of Cassations, Egypt’s highest criminal court, Judge Ahmed Abdel Qawi ruled the Mubarak, the defendant, was innocent. … Continued
BY: David DeMaria/Contributing Writer With March Madness right around the corner, four North African basketball players, are not only looking to finish their respective college seasons successfully, but stand out as potential targets for the NBA draft, either this year or in the future. The most frequently mentioned of the four by NBA scouts is … Continued
By Raphael Satter San Francisco Gate Egyptian American author Mona Eltahawy is one of many activists and human rights advocates targeted in a sweeping cyberespionage campaign blamed on Egypt’s government, the Associated Press has found. A booby-trapped email sent to Eltahawy shows that she was targeted by the same password-stealing technique used to try to … Continued
BY: Diego Reyes/Contributing Writer Since the inauguration of Donald Trump, Muslim politics and Islamophobia have quickly become two of the most discussed topics in the nation. A perceived war between the West and the Muslim world have been moved to the forefront of American consciousness, prompting the nation’s leaders to respond. In his attempt to … Continued
BY: Nisreen Eadeh/Staff Writer Since signing executive orders banning all citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, President Trump has given a new life to the Statue of Liberty, an undeniable symbol of freedom for new immigrants reaching the shores of America for the first time. More than ever, Americans are using the Statue of Liberty as … Continued
BY: Nisreen Eadeh/Staff Writer On October 18, 1954, Antigone Costanda, a Greek-Egyptian, was crowned Miss World at the pageant’s fourth annual show in London. Winning the crown at the young age of 19, Costanda was one of only 16 contestants at the time. She won first place, while Miss USA won second and Miss Greece … Continued
By Sonia Farid Al Arabiya English The Coptic Churches Accountability Act, recently submitted by Republican representative David A. Trott, has requested “the Secretary of State to submit an annual report to Congress regarding efforts to restore or repair Christian property in the Arab Republic of Egypt that was burned, damaged, or otherwise destroyed during the sectarian … Continued
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