The dispute over Beni Suef's al-Fashn Church came to an end after a technical committee tasked with reviewing the issue approved construction of a dome that had not been included in the original blueprints for the church.
The Al-Fashn Archbishopric (...)
Beni Suef Governor Samir Seif al-Yazal has reportedly asked Coptic Bishop Estifanos of the Al-Fashn Church to abide by government-approved blueprints for a new church currently being built in the area.
“The municipal council found that the (...)
The family of a missing Coptic girl allegedly abducted by a young Muslim man--Abdel Rahman Aly--in Beni Suef's Ahnasia Township has called for President Hosni Mubarak's personal intervention in the case.
In a letter to Mubarak, the family said the (...)
CAIRO: Taqa Arabia, an energy distribution subsidiary of Citadel Capital, said on Thursday it would install a $140-million power project in Yemen, as part of an expansion strategy in the Middle East and Africa.
Construction of the 70-megawatt (...)
Parliamentary Speaker Fathi Sorour has declined to discuss the new law regulating Lawyers Syndicate elections.
In response to a request by parliament's legislative committee yesterday--submitted by MP Alaa Abdel Moneim--to debate the issue, Sorour (...)
AMMAN: A few years back, Susan Collin Marks, an international conflict transformation specialist from South Africa, wrote a great book, Watching the Wind, about the South African transition from apartheid to democracy. Its importance lies in the (...)
Recently, Azmi Bishara, head of the Balad party, resigned from his post as a member of the Israeli Knesset. He announced that he would not return to Israel anytime soon because of serious charges leveled against him by the Israeli security (...)
For more than two decades political proposals, diplomatic initiatives, and international resolutions, as well as specifically Palestinian and Israeli initiatives, such as the unofficial Geneva Accords, have failed to bring about peace between (...)