Egypt’s justice minister warns lynchings and other criminal acts signal...
According to an Associated Press article in Fox News, “a day after residents in a northern Nile Delta province killed two men in public after they allegedly stole a motorized rickshaw with a girl...
View ArticleEgypt’s Morsi sends Islamic law bond to clerics
According to a Reuters article in The Chicago Tribune, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, “referred a law allowing the state to issue Islamic bonds to a panel of top Muslim scholars” this Sunday, in “a...
View ArticleEgyptian rights laws draw criticism
According to an article published for UPI, a move by the Egyptian government “to restrict the activity of civil organizations” has been deemed “counter to the spirit of the [Egyptian] revolution” by...
View ArticleEgypt’s top religious authority approves Islamic bonds law
Reuters reports that Al-Azhar, Egypt’s leading Islamic authority, approved a law this Thursday that would “allow the government to issue Islamic bonds.” After protesting a lack of consultation on...
View ArticleEgypt prosecutor suspended for ordering 80 lashes for drunk man
A provincial prosecutor in Egypt was suspended last week after “ordering a man to be lashed 80 times for being drunk and possessing drugs,” Salma El Wardany at Bloomberg reports. Hussein Anany, a...
View ArticleEighty lashes for drinking?
Despite the Egyptian government having blocked a local prosecutor from using Islamic law to sentence a man to eighty lashes for being “drunk and possessing hash,” the incident may have something to...
View ArticleEgypt official on Christians
Cheryl Chumley at The Washington Times reports that Mohamed Abu Samra, secretary-general of Egypt’s Islamic Jihad Party, recently said in a statement that “it’s OK to kill Christians because they threw...
View ArticleMorsi signs law allowing Egyptian government to issue Islamic bonds
According to an Associated Press article published for The Washington Post, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi recently “signed a new law allowing the state to issue Islamic bonds” — an act many believe...
View ArticleShari’a in Egypt: Muhammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood
In an article published for Foreign Policy, Shadi Hamid writes that while Morsi’s Brotherhood has “veered to the right,” the “real debate within the group is whether they’ve veered far enough”: With...
View ArticleA look at key articles in Egypt’s draft constitution
An Associated Press article published for ABC News and Fox this week examines some of the key provisions of the Egyptian draft constitution that, if passed in an upcoming referendum, will “amend the...
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