As Egypt prepares to witness the delayed parliamentary elections in October and November, questions loom around whether the political parties are ready to join the race.
Some of them are facing uncertainty in terms of leadership and political (...)
In November 2010, two months before the 25 January revolution, rigging marred the country's parliamentary elections, with the then-ruling and now-defunct National Democratic Party seizing 95 percent of the vote, or 473 out of 508 seats.
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Hours before nearly 6,000 journalists head to the polls, the streets of downtown Cairo — where the headquarters of most private and state newspapers are situated — are filled with posters bearing the faces of candidates.
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Alexandrian businessman Farag Amr announced on Wednesday that he would be shutting down a number of his company's factories which produce the “Faragello" foodstuffs brand, in response to strike tactics used by some his workers which the businessman (...)
It didn't take long for the draft law regulating the NGOs' work to be finalized before it was dubbed “suppressive,” swiftly incurring the ire of a civil society community already under scrutiny and increasingly wary of the tightening grip of the (...)
Promises of "retribution or chaos" are graffitied on the walls of central Cairo and its metro stations, signed by the Ultras Ahlawys ahead of 26 January when a decisive verdict in the Port Said massacre is due.
In February 2011, members of the (...)
On Sunday, Ahmed Khalil stood monitoring the exchange prices of currencies at an exchange office in Giza.
He was planning to make a quick buck on the falling price of the Egyptian pound.
“How much is the dollar today? LE6.49? Did the Central Bank (...)
The year 2012 was supposed to witness Egypt's transition from the revolutionary state back to the stability of elected bodies and sovereign institutions.
However, the transition turned out to be longer and more complicated than expected, and the (...)
When President Mohamed Morsy made a speech opening the Shura Council's 33rd session, members interrupted him 10 different times with rounds of applause, despite the council's own bylaws banning applause during speeches.
Their collective glee might (...)
Several Salafi movements and parties, including the Nour Party and Hazemoun, took part in protests Tuesday to support President Mohamed Morsy amid growing polarization between Islamists and secularists.
Meanwhile, a sit-in of Salafi groups continues (...)
“Article 6 [of the 22 November Constitutional Declaration] aims to ensure the country's safety against irresponsible actions by some groups, and the constitutional declaration will expire once the referendum result is announced. I invite all (...)
When thousands of protesters who belong to the Islamist current rallied Saturday at Cairo University to support President Mohamed Morsy's constitutional declaration, they raised banners and chanted accusations against the media for misguiding (...)
“The stock market makes LE8 billion in profit following news of the judges supervising the referendum,” read a headline in the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice news website Tuesday.
The news piece goes on to describe a state of optimism (...)
Both of Dream TV's channels went dark Thursday, save for a message to viewers: “Dream TV announces that it is unable to broadcast its shows due to a decision by Prime Minister Hesham Qandil ... despite the legality of the broadcast.”
This, the (...)
Sunday, a number of Egyptian football league players and sports workers besieged the Baron Hotel in Heliopolis. Staying there were the Sunshine Stars, a Nigerian team due to play against Egypt's premier club, Ahly, in the African Champions League (...)
The committee drafting the chapter on monitoring and independent bodies in the Constituent Assembly has almost finalized 16 articles. Allocating an entire chapter to discussing the role of monitoring apparatuses is a novelty — there were only (...)
Our Armed Forces, with its Ground Forces, Air Force, Navy and Air Defense, played a symphony repeating powerfully and with faith the motto of the Ramadan war: God is great; He put an end to the wrong saying that the Israeli military is invincible in (...)
The Free Officers wanted their 1952 coup to go down in history as a revolution of the people, but they had a problem: The people writing the historical record weren't convinced. Several newspaper editors refused to promote the ideas of the military (...)
In late August, 40-year-old Arafa Kamel set himself on fire outside the presidential palace in Heliopolis after a disagreement with his employers, who disregarded a court verdict reinstating him after his dismissal.
Several newspapers referred to (...)
DAHSHUR — It could be a Delta village like any other. Tuk tuks, more numerous than cars, drive down rutted dirt roads of fertile soil. Cattle graze on every street corner as little children play hide-and-seek. Central Security conscripts sit on the (...)
Ahmed Shafiq, former presidential frontrunner and Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, is back in the headlines. He was referred to criminal court Tuesday on charges related to facilitating the sale of the Kabreet land, an area overlooking the Great (...)
Besides soaps, talk shows and religious segments, which are common features of the Ramadan media diet, a sprawling amount of ads is usually also offered.
Behind these ads lie a lot of money and a thriving business for mediators between media (...)
A number of columnists in privately-owned newspapers such as Al-Watan, Youm7 and Al-Tahrir published blank opinion articles on Thursday to protest the appointment of new editors-in-chief for 45 state-run newspapers by the Shura Councilthe day (...)
Navy commander Mohab Mamish retired Sunday on the order of President Mohamed Morsy and was handed control of the important Suez Canal Authority.
Mamish, 64, head of the navy since 2007 and member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, will head (...)
In the run-up to the presidential election, the Shura Council began setting criteria for appointing the leaders of state-run newspapers, which will control a main conduit of Egyptian's knowledge about the political state of affairs. The door was (...)