Vatican– In an extraordinary appeal this week, top religious leaders from across the world called for inter-religious friendships "to counter misperceptions, prejudices and distrust" between peoples.
Reaching out to people of other religions can be (...)
Al-Arish, Northern Sinai (Egypt) – The Union of Sinai Tribes' Facebook page unveiled the identity of so-called 'Abu Osama al-Masri,' or as terrorists identify him as "mayor of Wilayat Sinai". The page has confirmed that his real name is Mohammed A. (...)
Riyadh – On Saturday May 20, 2017, Al-Azhar's Grand Imam Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb headed to the Saudi capital of Riyadh to participate at the high-level intellectual forum, Tweeps 2017, organized and hosted by Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Prince (...)
Cairo - Dr. Abdel Rehim Ali, Member of Parliament, Editor-in-Chief of Al-Bawaba News, said: "Everyone at least has learned something from the late thinker and writer El-Sayyid Yassin, former Director of the Al-Ahram Center for Political and (...)
Cairo – On May 20, 2017, a seminar titled: 'Youm Al-Wafaa' (a type of Day of Remembrance), is being organized by Al-Bawaba Newspaper to honor the memory of late writer and thinker El-Sayyid Yassin, and to highlight his intellectual legacy, at the (...)
Cairo - Prominent Islamic preacher Emad Refaat denied the validity of the fatwa circulated by some self-proclaimed preachers on social media sites claiming that "There is no penalty in Islam for sexual harassment if the harassed female happens to be (...)
New York— Ambassador Ahmed Farouk, Consul General of Egypt in New York, said that his invitation to the New York City Police Department (NYPD) on the occasion of the fasting month of Ramadan soon to begin (May 27), confirms that the Egyptian (...)
Tripoli - Terrorist groups in Libya have managed to gain control over many Libyan cities with Qatari-Turkish support, according to Nasser al-Hawari, Head of the Libyan Observatory for Human Rights.
Al-Hawari also condemned the extrajudicial (...)
Cairo – Defiant Egyptian MP, Abdel Rehim Ali, a renowned writer and columnist, expressed his utter objection that some parliament members are attempting to stifle voices of their fellow MPs who happen to have divergent views than theirs. In his (...)
Cairo - Greek Deputy Minister of State, Terence Nicholas Quick, said that he considers Egypt his home, and has always been keen to take pictures of all tourist sites that he visits in order to send a message to the whole world that Egypt is safe (...)
Cairo — Assem El-Genidi, Assistant Secretary-General of the Conservative Party (or Hizb Al-Mohafezeen), has commended the government's move to bring the long-awaited cybercrime bill to light as "a great boon to pre-empt and prevent any online (...)
Cairo - Tahtieb, 'stick dance' or 'cane dance' is a traditional form of Egyptian folklore and martial art known in Southern Egypt for centuries. The word Tahtib comes from the Arabic word hatab which means 'dry tree branches'. At the onset, it was (...)
Cairo - East Cairo Prosecution decided to drop over-the-counter drug possession charges against Egyptian Member of Parliamnet and film director 'Khaled Youssef'.
Youssef, who has been released Immediately on his own recognizance, was stopped on (...)
Cairo – An informed source revealed that in early hours Sunday morning in Doha, the capital of Qatar, Qatari government held a top-secret meeting with some leaders from Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and some Turkish intelligence officials in order to (...)
Washington - US President Trump has been confronted with a global backlash over signing an executive order on Friday that restricts citizens entry from seven Muslim countries, suspends all refugee admission for 120 days, amid calls by rights groups (...)
Cairo – Egypt's President 'Abdel Fatah al-Sisi' wades into another thorny issue that none—but a few—had the guts to open before. The House of Representatives' Religious Committee will prepare a draft law regulating verbal divorce in a few days, (...)
Recent debate on questions of identity, stemming from the writing and rewriting of Egyptian institutions, has been particularly acrimonious.
Articles 2, 3 and 219 in the 2012 constitution are once again the subject of endless bickering between (...)
The last time Egypt had an issue with the Shia was when Salaheddin Al-Ayoubi (Saladin) dismantled the Fatimid state as an ideological order and official doctrine. That was about nine centuries ago. Since then there has been no “Shia question” in (...)