The American Public Radio International (PRI) recently reported about the Baha’i community in Egypt, following the implementation of the court ruling that allowed Baha’is to leave the religious affiliation field in their IDs blank.
PRI interviewed several members of the community, including Dr. Raouf Hindi, the Baha’i whose battle in court to allow his daughters to [...]

The following is a translation of an article that recently appeared in Al Youm:
The first judicial ruling to give the custody of a child to his mother’s family after she embraced the Baha’i faith.
By Siham Al Basha
Today, Department 12 at Al-Zananiri Court issued the first ruling to give the custody of a little child to [...]

Article By: Sandeep Singh Grewal
[Read this article in Arabic.]
Manama, Bahrain- A Bahraini activist is urging the government to recognise Baha’i Faith and allow the community to gather and worship freely.
Esra’a Al Shafei, whose work focuses on ethnic and religious minorities, said it was high time Arab and Gulf governments legally recognised the Baha’is.
“The community should [...]

Article by: Sandeep Singh Grewal
Manama, Bahrain – 23 May is a day when Baha’is from different pockets of the world celebrates the 165th anniversary of the birth of the Baha´i faith. While in Iran, families of seven Baha´i leaders are having sleepless nights after authorities reportedly arrested and jailed the group. The Iranian deputy [...]

This is a translation of an article that recently appeared in Elaph.
Author: Majdi Khalil | Originally published in Arabic on: Friday, 15 May 2009
Struggles for freedom of faith in Egypt
It never occurred to Basma Moussa or Camliya Lutfi that they would become symbols for defending freedom of faith in Egypt when they [...]

Six weeks after they were forced to flee in the aftermath of an attack that left their homes completely burnt down, the Baha’is of Shoraniya remain incapable of returning to their village. Attorney Adel Ramadan from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights requested security officials to ensure the safe return of the displaced Baha’is to [...]

Dr Hamid Siddique – a researcher at the National Research Center in Egypt – filed a lawsuit against the Minister of Interior before the Administrative Court, and demanding the Minister to cease issuing ID cards to Baha’is. He further demanded that all those who were issued ID cards with a dash “-” listed in the [...]

Egyptian media outlets have reported on the attack against Baha’is in the village of Showraniya. The violence erupted after the journalist Gamal Abd Alrahim appeared on TV, and called for the murder of Dr. Basma Moussa. Abd Alrahim has been a vocal critic of Baha’is, and has routinely called for violence against them.
The following account [...]

After a long and arduous battle, the Baha’is of Egypt were finally accorded the justice they deserve. Bilo, from the “Baha’i Faith in Egypt” blog informs us that the Egyptian Supreme Court has rejected the appeal launched by Islamist lawyers against the the ruling which permitted Baha’is to obtain official documents with a dash (-) [...]

Like all other Baha’is, the experiences of Shady Samir in Egypt have been far from easy. His marriage isn’t officially recognized, it took him 10 years to obtain a passport and over a year to obtain birth certificates for his 3 daughters, and of course, he still doesn’t have a National ID card.
Shady has also [...]