A White House statement has said Egyptian parliamentary elections have been going well so far. It added that President Barack Obama is firmly committed to democracy, irrespective of which parties would win.
“It's unfair to assume that religious (...)
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has announced the start of an investigation into four banks that have what it called “dictator assets” belonging to former presidents Hosni Mubarak, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and Muammar (...)
US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, on Tuesday, denied his involvement in any direct negotiations with the Egyptian authorities on the release of the American-Israeli citizen Ilan Grapel, who was accused by Egypt of being a spy.
During a meeting (...)
Student and worker protesters at the American University in Cairo (AUC) further escalated their demonstration on Thursday by taking down the American flag on campus, as they continue protesting the policies of the university administration and (...)
Egyptian prisoners in Tel Aviv have sent a letter to the Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil al-Araby demanding their release in a prisoner swap for Ilan Grapel, the alleged Israeli spy arrested in Egypt. Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinians in the Gaza (...)
The Israeli National News website, Arutz Sheva, reported that the Egyptian Foreign Minster Nabil al-Araby refused to meet an Israeli delegation to discuss the release of alleged Israeli spy Ilan Grapel and said the issue is non-negotiable.
The (...)
Officials from the US and Israeli Embassies attended the official interviews with suspected Israeli spy Ilian Grapel on Tuesday, and were allowed to talk alone with him.
Grapel told investigators that he served in the Israeli army for two years and (...)
Military sources have dismissed a report aired on CNN in which a senior military official is quoted as saying the army checked the virginity of female demonstrators after they were arrested in Tahrir Square during the revolution.
In the report, the (...)
Egypt's Minister of Manpower and Immigration, Ahmed Hassan al-Borai, predicted on Sunday that his government will set a minimum wage within five months.
Al-Borai said the government needs between two and five months to decide on the issue, which he (...)
Mohamed ElBaradei, founder of the National Association for Change, has called on the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) to hold a serious civil dialogue through a consultative council of 50 experts. The dialogue would help establish national (...)
Chris Elliott, readers' editor of British newspaper The Guardian, has admitted that the paper made a mistake in phrasing an article it printed on 4 February about the wealth of ousted President Hosni Mubarak being as high as US$70 billion.
According (...)
Fifty international organizations called on US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to stop sending aid to Egypt. They called it an “illegal” act, as the United States has local and international commitments not to provide aid to those who violate (...)
The American University in Cairo (AUC) hosted some 250 people--including university and high school students, local residents and college professors--to watch the decade's first partial solar eclipse on Tuesday.
The eclipse was visible to varying (...)
A senior figure in Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) has said the regime rules Egypt with a single-party approach and sees no other players in the political arena.
At a seminar organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo, (...)
A new study shows a growing Salafist trend within the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest Islamist opposition group. The study, conducted by Hossam Tammam, a journalist and researcher at the futurology department of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, said the (...)
Scores of Egyptian expatriates residing in the US staged a protest on Saturday in front of the Egyptian embassy in Washington, demanding international observation in the country's upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for 28 November.
Al-Masry (...)
A dissertation by an American PhD candidate seeks to provide an explanation for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's secret of political longevity by concluding that “elections are an important survival strategy for authoritarian regimes like the one (...)
Former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director Mohamed ElBaradei told the German press agency (DPA) on Monday that he would not run in Egyptian presidential elections slated for next year.
"Such a move would be meaningless under current (...)
Former UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei in an interview with American publication The Daily Beast earlier this week criticized US President Barak Obama for allegedly turning his back “on democratization efforts in the Arab world."
ElBaradei (...)
At a symposium on Monday night, Minister of State for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Moufid Shehab categorically dismissed allegations of fraud in Egyptian elections.
“Elections are not rigged,” said Shehab at Saqiyet al-Sawy's cultural center in (...)
A recent poll conducted by the American Gallup Research Center found that 49 percent of Egyptians "disapprove of the US leadership," while only 19 percent expressed approval for it, down from a 37-percent approval rating last year.
Entitled "Global (...)
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) criticized the National Democratic Party's (NDP) refusal to make any changes to the electoral system in order to guarantee the integrity of the November People's Assembly elections. The organization (...)
The Arab-Israeli conflict poses a challenge to Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, according to the head of the Union for the Mediterranean.
“Realization of the comprehensive development of Mediterranean nations will not succeed without securing peace (...)
The second in command in Al-Qaeda's terrorist network, Ayman al-Zawahiri, delivered a scathing criticism of Mohamed ElBaradei, the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in the fugitive's most recent video released to the (...)
By participating in direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) slated to begin Thursday, President Hosni Mubarak is seeking the continuation of US support for his presidency--or for the succession of his son Gamal to the (...)