Bibliography: BIB32660

Key	BIB32660
Reference type	Thesis
Title	Religious Minorities in Egypt
Author	Nafe, Samah Zaki
Year	2010
Place published	Indianapolis, Indiana
Abstract	This thesis is on the importance of consolidating principles of citizenship among decisionmakers, and rejecting the practice of classification of citizens by religion, color or race as a basis for civil rights. In 1994 the government of Egypt started to issue a different kind of identity card. It is called the national number card. This new ID card deprived the religious minorities in Egypt of their civil rights by limiting the religions allowed to be written into the new ID card to Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Members of the Baha’i religion fought back and after a long battle they partially won as they and other religious minorities can now put the mark (-) in their ID cards. But the state still does not recognize their marriages and the larger community still does not accept them in the sense that the government which represents them issues judicial findings that are specifically, due to the laws invoked, findings that this tiny community is a threat to public order and has in hand a legal way to put them in jail for not being Muslims, Christians or Jews.
Language	English
Keywords	PERSECUTION; EGYPT; IDENTITY CARDS
Number of pages	vi, 62, [1]
Thesis type	Master
Academic department	Law
University	Indiana University School of Law
Degree	LL.M.
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