Egypt’s minority Shia population is thought to make up around one percent of Egypt’s total population. And yet, every year when Shia Muslims celebrate Ashura — commemorating the death of…
Egyptian authorities deported a Syrian asylum seeker on Wednesday morning after detaining him incommunicado for over a month, Amnesty International Egypt Libya-focused…
As the Shia community celebrated its religious holiday Ashura on Thursday, the Ministry of Endowments kept the historic Hussein Mosque closed as…
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