Spurred by what they see as an increasing tide of Islamization lead by the Muslim Brotherhood, 13 Coptic civil society and political activist groups decided to band together and create a coordinating body unattached to the church.
Inaugurated last (...)
Karam Gaber, Egypt's Greco-Roman wrestler, won the silver medal in the 84 kilogram division Monday, raising the country's tally to two medals in the London 2012 Olympics, both silver. This puts us 40th on the overall list of medal winners this (...)
Big news: The Supreme Council for the Armed Forces is flipped on its heels as President Mohamed Morsy decides to make his most significant power play since winning the elections. Morsy sent the head of the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces (...)
President Mohamed Morsy can't seem to shake Muslim Brotherhood Shura Council deputy Khairat el-Shater out of his beard, as the Guidance Bureau and the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party leaders reportedly met and internally proposed his name as (...)
Many Egyptians have not yet sobered from the ecstasy of finally getting a civilian president, for the first time in the history of the 60-year-old republic.
But only a few days after the announcement of Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate (...)
Sunday was a day of tears, jubilation, and reverie at the Mohamed Morsy campaign headquarters in Downtown Cairo. After the head of the Presidential Election Committee, Farouk Sultan, gave an agonizingly long speech before finally announcing that the (...)
When Hosni Mubarak was president, Kamel Ahmed would sit in a furnished garage next to a busy intersection in Cairo's Manial neighborhood, discussing campaign strategies with others working for Fathy Gleed, a former candidate for Mubarak's National (...)
Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh said on Monday that the results of the first round of the presidential election should not be trusted, and accused the government of manipulating the process and other candidates of buying votes.
“I cannot call these (...)
The media and economists frequently ring alarm bells about Egypt's bleeding treasury and looming cash crisis. It is not uncommon to see doomsday analysis in newspapers about the country going completely bankrupt.
There is less than a month before (...)
It is hard to go anywhere in Cairo these days without the watchful eyes of Hazem Salah Abu Ismail following you. Posters for the Salafi presidential candidate are plastered to car windshields, alleyway walls, lamp posts and highway dividers. This (...)
Former Housing Minister Ibrahim Suleiman was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined LE2.8 billion on Thursday for his role in facilitating corrupt land deals while he served in Hosni Mubarak's cabinet, joining several other former regime (...)
Thousands of grief-stricken mourners flocked to Abbasseya Cathedral on Saturday night to pay their last respects to Coptic Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria.
The mourners — traveling from governorates around Egypt and from abroad — gathered en masse (...)
Potential presidential candidates will be able to officially register on Saturday, as the Presidential Elections Commission has finalized preparations for the process. According to independent daily Al-Shorouk, the commission announced seven major (...)
As the regime-toppling revolutions in the Arab world move into their second spring, identifying a unified opposition front for the Syrian uprising is growing more convoluted.
With the death toll mounting well into the thousands, the international (...)
In front of a crowded audience at the Journalists Syndicate on Monday, lawyer and activist Khaled Ali announced his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election.
“My entire platform is built on the basis of social justice,” said Ali. The (...)
The left wing of Egyptian politics boasts some of the most notable figures of the revolution, including political intellectuals, human rights activists and whistle-blowing online activists who have for years helped move the debate and public (...)
Hundreds of Egyptians have been gathering around the Libyan Embassy in Cairo over the past week, waiting to receive or apply for visas as confusion grows regarding the status of migrant Egyptians in Libya.
“I've been sleeping out here for four days (...)
Mona Farag stood quietly watching military and police beat some of the women around her, forcing them, with the sides of their batons, to stay in place. It's a familiar scene in Cairo these days, but Mona was not standing in an anti-government (...)
The Port Said football disaster still echoes in the hearts and minds of those whose hearts and minds are still intact after hearing about the tragic massacre of at least 71 football fans in what many consider to be a planned, barbaric attack aiming (...)
At least 71 are confirmed dead in the worst-ever fan violence following a sporting event in Egypt, after a fight apparently broke out between fans of the home football team Masry and visiting team Ahly in the coastal city of Port Said.
People moving (...)
Social Democratic Party MP Ziad al-Elaimy proposed a draft bill in Parliament on Tuesday that would push forward presidential elections and change the time table under which the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces would hand over power through (...)
As the curtains seem to draw on the resurgent street demonstrations marking the anniversary of the beginning of the 25 January revolution, one of the revolutionary forces' main demands continues to echo: urging the ruling military council to cede (...)
The newly elected post-revolution People's Assembly convened yesterday for an incredibly long-winded and sometimes farcical inaugural session. What was supposed to be a succession of regulatory procedures in which new MPs are sworn in and (...)
Laila Soueif, mother of detained activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, released a statement on Tuesday claiming the military is continuing to detain her son despite the military prosecution's inaction in investigating the accusations he is currently charged (...)
The Occupy Wall Street protesters are now in their second month of camping out in New York City's financial district to make a statement against corporate greed and economic inequality. They have inspired offshoots across the US and around the (...)