For almost two years, civil and secular groups were constantly blamed for being disunited and unorganized, paving the way for Islamists to rise to power after Hosni Mubarak's ouster.
That changed this week as opposition leaders, former presidential (...)
The judges' face-off with President Mohamed Morsy takes the lead in Sunday's papers, alongside the rest of the aftermath of Morsy's controversial constitutional declaration that he announced on Thursday, giving himself vast powers.
State-owned (...)
The tumultuous constitution-writing process was dealt another blow this week when secular powers withdrew from the assembly tasked with drafting the new constitution.
Their walkout, preceded by the withdrawal of Coptic Church representatives, is (...)
ARISH — For Ahmed Taha, Sharia tribunals are not earthly justice. They come from a higher power.
“The verdict of the Salafi sheikh represents the verdict of God ... it must be implemented,” says Taha, a vegetable vendor in North Sinai's capital city (...)
The murky constitution drafting process, which has long been criticized by secularists for being hijacked by Islamists, is today the site of a new tug of war: a mostly inter-Islamist one.
Ultraconservative Salafi groups are standing against the more (...)
Al-Sabah, a new independent newspaper, hit the streets and cafes of Cairo on 30 September. Its recipe — sensational anti-Muslim Brotherhood headlines and dubiously sourced stories — might not be original, but precisely for that reason, its emergence (...)
After her son, atheist activist Alber Saber, was arrested on charges of blasphemy, Kariman Meseha says the prosecutor who interrogated her and her son asked, “How do you perform your religious rituals?”
“I replied, ‘This is something between me and (...)
President Mohamed Morsy arrived in Tehran on 30 August to participate in the Non-Aligned Movement summit, in a contentious leap towards diplomatic relations, which have been severed for more than 30 years.
Morsy is the first Egyptian president to (...)
CAIRO: Former young leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) criticized the group's decision to nominate former deputy supreme guide Khairat Al-Shater for president, announcing their support to one of his prominent rivals, Abdel Moneim Abol Fotoh, (...)
CAIRO: MP and former leading member of the Free Egyptians Party, Mohamed Abu Hamed, announced Wednesday the launch of his new party Hayat Al-Masriyeen.
Abu Hamed described the party as a "civil, liberal" party, which didn't oppose religion or (...)
CAIRO: The controversy over the formation of the Constituent Assembly escalated Sunday as the Church announced its withdrawal from the 100-member panel.
"The church listened to the Coptic community and proved that it is close to the people in its (...)
CARIO: Speaker of Parliament Saad El-Katatny was elected Wednesday as head of the 100-member Constituent Assembly which convened for its first meeting Wednesday despite the absence of 26 members.
El-Katatny said that drafting the constitution is (...)
CAIRO: The military ruler pardoned head of the Ghad El-Thawra Party, Ayman Nour, from a previous conviction, giving him the opportunity to run for Egypt's top office.
"The military council issued a presidential decree giving Ayman Nour the right (...)
CAIRO: At an American Chamber of Commerce event on Monday, presidential hopeful Amr Moussa said that if 25 percent of voters vote "no" in the referendum on the new constitution, it should be considered a veto.
He added that there should be a (...)
CAIRO: About 200 protested outside Egypt's High Court on Friday against the Islamists' domination of the Constituent Assembly tasked with drafting the new constitution.
Protesters chanted slogans against the Muslim Brotherhood, whose political (...)
CAIRO: Political parties and MPs announced their nominations for the Constituent Assembly members, ahead of a vote set for the joint meeting of both houses of parliament on Saturday.
The new constitution will replace the 1971 constitution, which (...)
CAIRO: Public transport workers moved an open strike to parliament on Wednesday, reiterating their demand to include the Public Transportation Authority (PTA) under the Ministry of Transport like other train and metro workers.
The workers accused (...)
CAIRO: The legislative Committee in the People's Assembly (PA) agreed Monday to annul article 6 of the military judicial law, which gives the president the jurisdiction to refer civilians to military courts.
Adel Ramadan, legal consultant for the (...)
CAIRO: The People's Assembly (PA) approved Monday a law that would increase compensation for the families of the Jan. 25 martyrs from LE 30,000 to LE 100,000 each, adding people with disabilities to the beneficiaries.
The PA added an article to (...)
CAIRO: Members of Parliament stood for a minute of silence to mourn the passing of Pope Shenouda III, after offering their condolences to the Egyptian people during Monday's session.
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria passed away on Saturday at the (...)
CAIRO: Muslim Brotherhood (MB) spokesperson Mahmoud Ghozlan could neither confirm nor deny whether the group will nominate one of its leaders, Khairat El-Shater, in the upcoming presidential election.
"This decision is up to the group's Shoura (...)
CAIRO: Parliament speaker Saad El-Katatny urged a People's Assembly committee during Monday's session to present its response to the government's statement by the end of this week for discussion, a step believed to be geared towards a no-confidence (...)
CAIRO: Hundreds of protesters rallied Friday in front of the High Court in support of Samira Ibrahim, one of the activists who were subjected to the virginity tests while in detentions last year, marking Egyptian Women's Day.
Egypt's military (...)
CAIRO: The trial of 14 defendants involved in killing protesters in Suez during the January 2011 uprising was adjourned to April 11 as civil society lawyer and father of martyr Islam El-Geneidy called on the panel of judges to step down.
After (...)
CAIRO: Sameh Ashour, head of the Lawyers' Syndicate, replaced Mansour Hassan as head of the Advisory Council to Egypt's military rulers on Tuesday night.
Mansour, a culture and information minister under the late president Anwar Sadat, resigned (...)