Arab-West Report 2012, Weeks 01-31: Social and Political Issues in Post-Revolutionary Egypt

The reports also highlighted the death of the prominent Coptic Pope Shenouda and the subsequent election of the successive Coptic Pope. • The disputed statistics and claims about the alleged influx of Coptic Christian Immigration to the West in the post-revolutionary period, as a result of their concerns over the possibility of an Islamist rule. • The debates that followed the predominant monopoly of Islamists over the Constitutional Assembly that was in charge of drafting Egypt’s first constitution since 1971, which brought to the table the concerns of liberal, Azhar and Church leaders and possibly the Supreme Council of the Armed forces, all of whom saw a great need to be represented in the composition of an assembly. • Articles shedding light on the controversial Article 2 of the Egyptian constitution which states that Islamic the Principles of Islamic Shar’ia law is the principal source of legislation in the Egyptian Republic. • A few documents addressing the Coptic youth protests’ movements that followed a number of sectarian incidents. • Interviews conducted by AWR with Presidential hopefuls such as Dr. ʿAbd al-Munʿim Abū al-Futūḥ.

The reports in this dataset are all written in English, though some of the sources feature Arabic words or text.