Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's historic visit to Cairo for a summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), as well as President Mohamed Morsy's red carpet reception, has led to mounting speculation across the region that a (...)
Contentious student bylaws recently passed by Prime Minister Hesham Qandil face accusations of being unconstitutional, and now face a lawsuit at the Administrative Court.
Earlier criticized for restricting the freedom of the student movement in the (...)
The headlines of Egypt's various newspapers on Wednesday highlight the ongoing street and political deadlock, but from two different perspectives.
While state-owned newspapers and the mouthpiece of the ruling party celebrate the decision of (...)
The Coptic community was angered earlier this year when General Abou Bakr al-Guindy, the head of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), claimed there were only 5.7 million Copts in Egypt.
They argue the number is much (...)
The new Cabinet reshuffle announced by Prime Minister Hesham Qandil late Saturday, as well as a looming conflict inside the opposition's National Salvation Front, are major headlines marking Sunday's newspapers in Egypt.
The new reshuffle affects 10 (...)
The results of this month's constitutional referendum may reveal an important shift in the country's political map, as well as a general loss of trust and interest in the political process, observers say.
Beyond a vote on the draft constitution, the (...)
Copts, many would say, have been persistently subject to sectarianism at the hands both of the state, and society more broadly. But there are also persistently ways out, ways that frame the “Coptic question” less as a Coptic question at all, but (...)
Egypt's newspapers celebrate the New Year with a recount of the last year's turbulent events, while the attack over a contentious draft law for protesting is still being slammed by political forces and dissidents.
The privately owned Al-Watan (...)
BANHA, Qalyubiya — Voting patterns in Qalyubiya Governorate's northern city of Bahna highlighted an age-specific split, as the second phase of the referendum on the draft constitution got underway Saturday.
Most of those voting "no" who were (...)
Supporters of Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, a prominent Salafi cleric and disqualified presidential candidate, have re-emerged in the past weeks and are popping up everywhere, making a ruckus with increasingly confrontational and unpredictable street (...)
The news of the resignation of Prosecution General Talaat Abdallah and the ongoing judicial battle against the constitutional referendum filled the front pages of Egypt's newspapers on Tuesday.
Abdallah's surprise resignation came amid heated (...)
A surprise decision by Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris to sell his satellite channel ONtv to Tunisian film producer Tarak Ben Ammar has raised questions about the intentions of both.
The news sparked questions over the future of Sawiris' (...)
Clashes escalated between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsy around the presidential palace in Heliopolis on Wednesday after the sit-in there was attacked.
The fighting broke out around 3:30 pm when Morsy supporters responded to a (...)
On its front page on 28 November, the newspaper that bears the same name as the Muslim Brotherhood's political party, Freedom and Justice, led with the headline: “Revolutionaries, feloul and street vendors present in Tahrir Square.”
The paper's (...)
In a joint statement, 180 diplomats decried what they claimed were orders from the Foreign Ministry to defend President Mohamed Morsy's controversial constitutional declaration.
The diplomats were allegedly sent a document justifying Morsy's (...)
After passing a controversial constitutional declaration late Thursday giving himself expansive powers, President Mohamed Morsy later went on to articulate the details of the Revolution Protection Law introduced in the declaration.
Meant to uphold (...)
Scenes of bloody clashes between Tahrir protesters and police forces are back filling the front pages of local newspapers, accompanied by ongoing coverage of the escalating conflict between Israel and Gaza, a contentious IMF loan and (...)
President Mohamed Morsy's decision to authorize Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to mobilize army troops raised suspicions that he may be slowly handing back power to the new coterie of military generals.
Experts, however, say it is normal in (...)
Egypt's draft constitution is drawing the ire of a wide spectrum of groups and political powers, and this past Sunday, Nubian activists joined the ranks of those rejecting the proposed articles for being unrepresentative.
The legitimacy of the (...)
Egypt opened its border with Gaza on Wednesday night, sources in the border town of Rafah told Egypt Independent. Locals estimate that 2,000 Gazans fleeing Israel's bombardment of the densely populated enclave have already flocked over the (...)
The local press focuses Wednesday on the nation's protracted battle to draft the constitution and news of US President Barack Obama's re-election Tuesday night.
State-owned Al-Ahram quotes Constituent Assembly member Mohamed Mohie Eddin as saying (...)
When the editor-in-chief of Al-Badeel newspaper, Khalid al-Balshy, was told by owners that his efforts were no longer appreciated, he grieved for more than just a lost job.
Among alternative media circles, Al-Badeel was seen as a pioneering project (...)
Headlines about President Mohamed Morsy's debut speech in front of the United Nations General Assembly and his meetings with high-level officials ran across the front pages of local papers Wednesday.
Dubbing Morsy's General Assembly speech scheduled (...)
When Egyptian wedding planner Nagla Wafa traveled to Saudi Arabia seven years ago, she never realized that her talent would lead her to five years in jail and 500 lashes.
Wafa started her own business in Saudi Arabia in a small flower shop, but when (...)
Late on Tuesday night, the walls of the American University in Cairo (AUC) were no longer covered with the colorful murals of the martyred Al-Azhar sheikh Emad Effat. The faces of those who lost their eyes during the Mohamed Mahmoud Street clashes (...)