Ethnic groups in Egypt

While Egypt’s new president, Mohammed Mursi, is being credited with reforms, a certain segment of the population is not at all happy: Coptic Christians. They accuse the government of not doing enough to protect their minority community.

Coptic Christians in Egypt had a degree of protection during the reign of Hosni Mubarak, but now that Islamist parties dominate the new parliament, Egypt’s Copts are feeling increasingly vulnerable.

Julia Simon reports on how the Nubians, one of Egypt’s overlooked minority groups, are viewing elections there.

About 25 people were killed and hundreds wounded at a rally of Coptic Christians in Cairo.

David Kirkpatrick, Cairo bureau chief for The New York Times, and Youssef Sidhom, chief editor of Watani, the Copt newspaper, talk about the incident, and what it means as Egypt heads into its first democratic elections.