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…
Several of the Wikileaks documents, which Mada Masr has exclusive access to through a memorandum of understanding, demonstrated Saudi Arabia’s concerns with the issue of Shias in Egypt. In a…
Last week, a group of Coptic activists protested inside the Abbaseyya Cathedral against the Church’s representatives in the 50-member committee tasked with drafting Egypt’s new constitution. Protesters called on two Coptic Church…
During a weekly television appearance, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar mosque Ahmed al-Tayyeb warned viewers about attempts to spread Shia Islam within Egypt. Tayyeb was…
The Endowments Ministry is closing the shrine in Islamic Cairo’s historic Hussein Mosque from Thursday to Saturday to bar followers of the Shia…
Islamic scholar Ahmed Kerima will be referred to investigations following his visit to a Shia seminary in Iran, Al-Azhar University said in…
As the Shia community celebrated its religious holiday Ashura on Thursday, the Ministry of Endowments kept the historic Hussein Mosque closed as…
After the Egyptian Shia community announced it would commemorate the holiday of Ashura in Islamic Cairo’s Hussein Mosque, the Endowments Ministry issued…
Security forces arrested Sunday a suspect accused of killing four Shias, including prominent Shia leader Hassan Shehata, in Giza’s Zawyet Abu Musallam in…
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