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Egypt Responds to the Beheading of Copts by IS in Libya

2015 Egypt Foreign Relations Ishak Ibrahim Minorities Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

March 28, 2015 03:34 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Ishak Ibrahim Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypt-responds-to-the-beheading-of-copts-by-is-in-libya/ Yesterday, Egyptians marked the culmination of the traditional, forty-day period of mourning for the twenty Egyptians and one Ghanaian beheaded by the Islamic State (IS) branch in Tripoli, Libya. Even as religious...

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The Egyptian Family House: Fostering Religious Unity

2015 Culture, Education and Development Egypt Islamic Movements and Institutions Jayson Casper Middle East Institute Minorities Paper

March 24, 2015 03:34 am

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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Jayson Casper Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/egyptian-family-house-fostering-religious-unity Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has not been shy about the need to reform religious discourse and relations.[1] He is concerned about how the image of Islam has been marred by Muslims themselves, and how extremist thought has torn the fabric...

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The Egyptian Pope’s Risky Partisanship

2015 Carnegie Minorities n/a Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

February 26, 2015 05:52 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Johannes Makar Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/59195 On Christmas Eve Mass on January 6, 2015—when President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi became the first Egyptian president to attend a church on the Coptic holy day—the congregation erupted in applause. The Egyptian Pope Tawadros II, who took office in November 2012, expressed his steadfast...

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The Decline of Coptic Activism in Egypt

2015 Egypt Jayson Casper Middle East Institute Minorities Paper

February 04, 2015 03:35 am

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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Jayson Casper Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/article/decline-coptic-activism-egypt During and immediately following the 2011 Egyptian uprising, Coptic activism reached new heights. Copts organized and came together to call for protection for their communities and rights more generally. However, particularly since the fall of the Muslim...

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