As previously mentioned at the end of last week's article, I will begin to trace how Egyptian cinema has talked about spaces where narratives of victimisation are produced and contested. Here, I would like to ask two main questions: what are the (...)
In the previous two articles of this series, I highlighted how the representation of the victim figure is made possible either by the formation or the deformation of a relationship with the victimised person. I discussed how the invisibility of the (...)
Two weeks ago, I wrote about an intimate human relationship coincidently formed between a hero who is imperfect and a victim who is misrepresented and unrepresented in Atef El-Tayeb's Against the Government (1992). As a follow-up in this week's (...)
Our hero is imperfect. He is not one of those idols whose footsteps we will be advised to follow in our everyday lives. In cultural terms, he is unclean. He does not look after the shape of his hair and beard. He shows us, and has once said, that he (...)
Mawlana was the title of medieval religious leaders in Central Asia. It was also a reference to the Sufi poet and scholar Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi. It can literally be translated into "Our Master", "Our Teacher", or "Our Preacher". Beyond these (...)
Following the 25 January Revolution, many Coptic social movements were formed. These movements have challenged the hierarchical clerical order of the Coptic Orthodox Church, its Pope, and Bishops. Turning against such hierarchy, whose congregation (...)
A press conference was organised Sunday between the Egyptian and the Saudi Foreign Ministers at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry in Cairo, following a private meeting between them.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said the meeting included talks (...)
The Ministry of Religious Endowments has closed the mosque and the shrine of Imam Hussain for three days, from Thursday to Saturday, to deter the commemoration of Ashura by Muslim Shi'as in Egypt, a religiously historic day in which Imam Hussein, (...)
Private media talk show hosts heavily criticised the government and the political factions for the low turnouts during the parliamentary elections. The first phase of the 2015 Egyptian parliamentary elections took place last Sunday and Monday.
The (...)
The Supreme Electoral Committee (SEC) is yet to organise a press conference Wednesday to declare the results for the 2015 Egyptian parliamentary elections, which its first phase took place on Sunday and Monday in 14 governorates, with a runoff stage (...)
"No to Religious Party" and "Expose Them" signed a cooperation protocol in an attempt to coordinate their strategies.
The two groups, which have popular mobilisation agendas against the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist political (...)
Religious scholars debated the "legality" of participating in the Egyptian parliamentary elections that began Sunday in 14 governorates.
A fatwa is a religious opinion issued by a high profile cleric, upon the request of a concerned individual, or (...)
The Supreme Electoral Committee (SEC) warned Thursday against the violation of the electoral silence period that began Friday noon. However, despite the warning, candidates have been violating the regulation through online social media.
The SEC (...)
Local and international organisations have set their final preparations for the 2015 parliamentary elections that begins on Sunday.
The second parliamentary election to be held post January 2011 Uprising is believed to be the third and final step of (...)
The Ministry of Religious Endowment suspended an imam on Wednesday who preached radical ideologies in a mosque that belongs to the ministry's administration in Nabaroh city, Daqahleya governorate.
Mohammed Abdel-Razek Omar, head of the religious (...)
Egyptians abroad will start to vote for the parliamentary elections in 139 embassies across the world on 17 and 18 October. The Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) announced in a press conference on Monday its preparations for this event.
"SEC and (...)
The "No to Religious Parties" campaign group announced it collected 1.25m signatures at a press conference it held Sunday in Downtown Cairo to reveal its achievements one week before the beginning of the first round of the parliamentary (...)
Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris said on Saturday that the Free Egyptians Party (FEP) will compete over 220 seats out of a total of 600 seats during the upcoming parliamentary elections.
In a televised interview, Sawiris said he is one of the (...)
The first round of the 2015 Egyptian parliamentary elections will be held in 14 governorates in one week. While all political parties and independent candidates are currently occupied with campaigning their programmes on streets and through media (...)
The Old Cairo Misdemeanour upheld on Saturday the prison sentence handed to TV presenter Islam El-Beheiry.
Last May, the court handed a five-year prison sentence to El-Beheiry for blasphemy. However, El-Beheiry appealed the decision, and the court (...)
Friday marked the anniversary of what is known as the ‘Maspero massacre': The killing of 25 Coptic Christians and around 200 more injured in front of the Cairo state television building Maspero, in clashes with the Egyptian armed forces.
Although (...)
In Coptic tradition, the Coptic Orthodox Church is the Church of Martyrs. The Book of Synaxarium, which narrates the lives of the Church's saints, recounts that the Coptic Church exists today as a result of its martyrs' blood. Today, one can see (...)
Pope Tawadros II, the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, said Sunday Copts who join the lists of the Salafist Al-Nour Party for the next parliamentary elections should not be trusted either by Muslims or Christians.
In a televised (...)
Al-Azhar University has boosted its security measures during the first week of the academic year 2015/2016 that started on Saturday.
Security forces surrounded the gates of the university in great numbers, forming numerous security checkpoints.
On (...)
The Press Syndicate organised on Sunday afternoon a press conference for relatives of pilgrims who were killed in a stampede in Mina, Mecca, on 23 September.
The conference was presented by the syndicate board member, Mahmoud Kamel, who launched it (...)