الفهرس | يوجد فقط 14 صفحة متاحة للعرض العام |
المستخلص The Copts announced their full and cautious support at the same time for the revolution of July 23, 1952, but they participated with great effectiveness in overcoming the challenges that faced the revolution. It is evident in strengthening the Egyptian political positions towards Arab and international issues, especially towards the Palestinian issue. Pope Cyril’s assumption of the Coptic Church’s chair and his great spiritual role was the reason for a consensus between him and President Abdel Nasser, so many small files and issues were closed, and important and major issues such as Arab nationalism and others appeared on the scene. The Copts spread within the Egyptian political life, and they were never an independent group with a single political orientation. As they are not similar or identical in their political affiliations, the absence of parties - especially the Wafd Party - greatly affected the presence of Copts in the political arena. A number of Coptic political movements also emerged; Such as the Coptic Ummah group and other Coptic parties and groups, and the presence of a large number of Copts within the Egyptian left, as well as a number of Copts within the alternative organizations of the revolution, especially the Socialist Union and its internal committees, and they played a major role within those committees. As for parliamentary life, with the outbreak of the July 1952 revolution, the regime was keen on the presence of Copts in the new parliament; In view of the small number of them in the National Assembly, Nasser tried to find a solution to the lack of Copts representation in Parliament, so he applied the system of closing districts, and with the failure of that experiment, he turned to the appointment system, which he used to appoint a number of Copts in the National Assembly, however, a number of Copts succeeded in reaching Parliament through open circles with competition between Muslims and Copts. Despite the small number of Coptic representatives in the National Assembly, They had an important role in Parliament through parliamentary committees in general, and some of them chaired a number of them, and the names of a number of them shined in the National Assembly, whether they were elected or appointed They also had an important and main role in the opposition within the National Assembly, even if it was relative to some issues. They also discussed the issues and problems of Egyptian society in all its sects and tried to provide solutions to them without prejudice to the Copts or discrimination |