It pains me to hear criticisms of Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and his cabinet, especially since I had enthusiastically nominated Sharaf to lead Egypt's caretaker government. I was moved to see people lifting him up on their shoulders in Tahrir (...)
The Egyptian Orthodox Church's stance against a recent Administrative Court ruling obliging the church to allow second marriages for Coptic divorcees is not at all peculiar. In defiance of the judiciary, priests have repeated a slogan, commonly used (...)