A few minutes before “Al-Maslaha” (The Goods) ends, Hamza, the idealistic narcotics officer, unexpectedly turns around and shoots the Bedouin Suleiman in cold blood after the drug dealer's surrender, avenging his young brother's death.
Perhaps this (...)
Farid al-Deeb is unlikely to be phased on Saturday, should a harsh ruling be issued against his most famous client, the ousted president Hosni Mubarak.
Deeb is known to be lawyer not afraid of defending suspects whose innocence is hard to prove. He (...)
QENA — Two major tribes in the Upper Egyptian city of Qena have made a preliminary agreement to end a week-long feud after officials intervened to ask for order.
For the past week the city has seen the Ashraf and Homaidat tribes exchange gunfire, (...)
Students at the privately owned German University in Cairo (GUC) have accused the university's administration of “lacking principles” after the administration issued a statement in which it said, indirectly, that students would not take part in (...)
Islamist parties are expected to sweep the first phase of the elections after the run-offs scheduled to take place on Monday.
The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) is leading the polls with around 40 percent of the vote, according (...)
The family of Egyptian citizen Mona Abdel Wahab has said that she was kidnapped on Friday from Cairo's Mohandiseen neighborhood following “threatening messages” sent to her Syrian husband, who has been active against the regime of Bashar (...)
Less than two hours after the speech by Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, clashes have erupted again on Mohamed Mahmoud Street, a sign that activists and politician say indicates that the nation's military rulers are following the former (...)
4:57 pm: Top police official tells state TV in a phone interview that the police have exercised the utmost level of restraint with protesters
4:54 pm: For almost an hour, live images broadcasted from the State TV only focus on the armored truck on (...)
Over the past half century, prolific writer Anis Mansour established his name among those of the nation's key cultural figures.
Mansour passed away on 21 October at the age of 87, leaving a legacy of more than 185 books that he had written, edited (...)
“It's the revolution,” answers Heba Honsi, a young activist who has been working for ten years in charity, when asked what motivated her to launch a website to enable people to donate to those in need.
After the revolution, Honsi noticed that people (...)
Following the death of Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi, Egyptian commentators have alleged that Egypt's media as a whole failed to have much to say about the incident, as there are so few experts capable of following changes in the neighboring (...)
Egypt's journalists began voting today to elect a new chairperson and board of directors for their syndicate.
From early morning, journalists poured into the headquarters of the Journalists Syndicate in downtown Cairo, with police officers (...)
Journalist and activist Radwan Adam looks proudly at the steps of the Journalists Syndicate as his fellow journalists prepare to head to the polls for the syndicate elections on Wednesday.
For nearly a decade, the steps leading up to the Journalists (...)
A doctor at Egypt's General Secretariat of Mental Health (GSMH) has confirmed that activist and blogger Maikel Nabil was referred to the Abbasseya Mental Hospital.
Dr. Basma Abdel Aziz, director of the media department at the GSMH told Al-Masry (...)
Scores of Libyans gathered across Cairo Thursday to celebrate the death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi, Libya's former dictator who ruled the country with an iron-fist for 42 years.
Some hurried to the Libyan Embassy in Zamalek, carrying the rebels' (...)
The international human rights watchdog Amnesty International has revealed that in 2010 Egypt's Ministry of Interior received two sniper rifles from Finland.
In a report published on Wednesday about arms' transfers to countries that crackdown on (...)
A week after a Maspero protest turned deadly when the army crushed a Coptic demonstration, local papers are taking a tone that suggests the nation's military rulers are not to blame.
Most of Monday's papers accuse various actors for the bloodshed (...)
Doctors' Syndicate elections on Friday ended the Muslim Brotherhood's nearly three decade-long monopoly of the syndicate, with candidates opposing the Islamist group doing especially well in the syndicate's provincial branches.
Election results (...)
Following 9 October's deadly violence near the state television building, also known as Maspero, the state-owned media has only presented a formal government narrative that holds protesters responsible for events that left 26 dead.
This is the (...)
The autopsies of 17 people killed in Sunday's violence near the Maspero TV building show the army is entirely responsible for the atrocity that left at least 27 people killed, a human rights activist said on Tuesday.
The deaths occurred when (...)
Thousands of Copts protested against the ruling military council on Monday, after violence Sunday night left 24 killed during a march, mostly of Copts, to the Maspiro state TV building area.
At the St. Mark of Alexandria Coptic Cathedral, scores of (...)
Angry Copts at the Cathedral of St. Mark in Cairo claim that the military threw the bodies of dead protesters into the Nile during Sunday night's clashes around Maspero.
A man in his fifties who identified himself as William told a group of people (...)
Egypt's ruling generals on Saturday agreed to cancel a controversial provision barring members of political parties from running as independents. This latest concession by the military council includes the formation of a legal framework to combat (...)
Military and security personnel have clashed with a group of about 2000 protesters, mostly Copts, as they marched towards the Maspiro area on Sunday evening to protest against attacks on Christians.
Early reports indicated that the clashes resulted (...)
The military backed interim government has approved recent amendments over the controversial Treachery Law, which aims to prevent remnants of the old regime from maintaining their political power. While banishing Mubarak's cronies from public life (...)