This is not the first time I write about Watani Braille, our monthly publication of material selected from Watani and printed in Braille for the benefit of the visually impaired. I wrote before of the dilemma we

Although the Christmas day “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been the focus of a great deal of media attention, and his plot the enabling action for a new round of security measures,

Dear Fathers, Brothers and Sisters in Christ: I greet you all with best wishes for a blessed new year. As many of you are aware, last week the Coptic Orthodox Christians of Egypt faced another brutal attack and witnessed the murders of six young men as

In the eyes of Wahhabi Salafists, the Copts are not citizens but a subordinate minority in a country conquered by Muslims

In the wake of the Nag Hamadi killings prevailing Egyptian sentiment has asserted the essential unity between Muslim and Christian, presenting the Christmas massacre as an aberration of the norm. The

The shootout which targeted the Copts as they left church following Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve in the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi, is still reverberating shock waves inside and outside Egypt.

Clashes erupted between Coptic Christians and Muslims in several southern Egyptian towns after an attack that left seven Copts dead.

We need your help in stopping the Massacre of Coptic Christians in Egypt. Gunmen killed at least seven people in a drive-by shooting outside a church in southern Egypt as worshippers left a midnight Mass for Coptic Christmas Thursday on January 7th. The attack took place in the early morning hours in the town of Nag Hamadi in Qena province, about 40 miles from the famous ancient ruins of Luxor.

I feel disgusted when I read some of the Egyptian newspapers especially the ones owned by the government. What I hate most is the repetitive lying and distorting of truth. The stupid liars keep blaming

Those who forget their past they are condemned to repeat it. First of all, let me ask you this question: Who is keeping President Mubarak in the office? My answer is: America!

I have been stunned with the departure of Engineer Adly Abadir Youssef, but I find myself driven to write about a man that his endeavors

Christians in America and Europe worry about the secularisation of their holiday. They have legitimate concerns about Christianity being culturally marginalised. Egypt's Christians have a far more basic worry. Aside from rampant discrimination against Egypt's Coptic Christians, who represent about 15% of Egypt's 80 million people.

Nearly every day I get an e-mail about a campaign on behalf of yet another luckless adherent of an unpopular religion who's languishing in some gulag. If it's not the Baha'is or Christians in Iran, it's the Muslims and the Falun Gong in China.

I had intended to use the last editorial in 2009 to review the past year and cite hopes for the New Year. I changed my mind, however, in the wake of the recent visit of President Hosni Mubarak to the Court of Cassation

AS FAR BACK as the fifth century, the Monastery of Abu Fana in Upper Egypt was renowned, in the words of one travel guide, for its “exceptional splendor and prestige.’’ Today that grandeur is gone. Instead the monastery has become a symbol of the abuse and degradation to which Egypt’s ancient Coptic Christian community is regularly subjected.

A month ago, in the same place I wrote an article entitled," have we reach the end of our road!", I made many questions to the readers trying with them to find out new techniques to find a remedy to the direct

Egypt lives currently in crisis, the lack of democracy and concerns of the Egyptian community from bequeathing power to Jamal Mubarak, son of the dictator Hosni Mubarak is logical and legitimate

Winston Churchill described the actions of Russia as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The nuclear diplomacy of Iran is constructed more simply: it is one lie after another. Western diplomacy has proved susceptible to the tactic. A US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) in December 2007

Last week I wrote commenting on the caustic response of our media to the Swiss ban on building minarets. Even though I am absolutely against the curtailment of religious freedom in any way, I made it clear that Egyptians are in no position to criticise the Swiss since Copts in Egypt are treated far more

Pope Benedict XVI has called synod of the churches in the Middle East for an October 2010. Preparation for this event requires understanding

The Islamic world received the Swiss people's decision to ban building minarets over mosques with denial and a great refusal for the voting results. Switzerland is one of the nations that is considered a symbol