Nagla Wafa, an Egyptian wedding dress designer, has been in prison in Saudi Arabia since 2009, following a dispute with a princess. (Photo via Facebook)
An Egyptian fashion designer and mother of two received the final 50 lashes of her 500 lash (...)
The Constitutional Court of Spain issued a judgement saying it will not extradite Hussein Salem to Egypt.
Salem is an Egyptian businessman who was sentenced in absentia to charges of money laundering and profiteering.
The Spanish court stated that (...)
The Supreme Constitutional Court will be reformatted to consist of 11 justices instead of 18. The change will be one of the immediate alterations to the Egyptian judiciary that will be go into effect after the official passage of the new (...)
During voting veiled women were reportedly told to show their faces to ensure their identity, but were not provided with a female judge to reveal themselves too. (DNE/ Hassan Ibrahim)
Egyptian women have emerged as leading critics of the referendum (...)
The 6 April Youth Movement aims to encourage conversations about the draft constitution ahead of the referendum
(File photo by Hend Tarek)
The 6 April Youth Movement has decided to spend this pivotal week educating instead of protesting. In a final (...)
During the 15 December constitutional referendum voters must vote in the towns where they are registered. (DNE/ FILE PHOTO/ Hassan Ibrahim)
President Mohamed Morsy has tweaked the law regarding referendum elections to restrict voters to only voting (...)
Ambiguity surrounds the definition of faith in the proposed constitution
Photo by Mohamed Omar
Ambiguity surrounds the definition of faith in the proposed constitution. Article 43 of the newly passed draft constitution expresses the freedom of (...)
FJP supporters clash with anti-Morsy protesters in Tanta. (Photo via 6 April Tanta Facebook page)
On Sunday night clashes broke out in front of the Freedom and Justice Party offices in Tanta in the Nile Delta. They pitted those who are angry with (...)
Mahmoud Al-Khudairi's release on bail is the latest chapter of the ongoing “insulting the judiciary" saga that has plagued Egypt since the revolution. According to MENA, the former vice president of the cessation court paid EGP 3,000 to be released, (...)
Eighteen Egyptians are being held in Kuwait charged with illegal assembly. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that Egypt's consul in Kuwait, Ambassador Wael Gad, visited the detained on Friday to ensure that they were being well treated.
The (...)
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The Muslim Brotherhood is calling for Friday protests against the most recent assaults by the Israeli army on the Gaza Strip. They are calling for all Egyptians to join them “in announcing their wrath and condemnation of the (...)
The European Union is in Cairo to talk politics, economics and the future of Egypt. High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton is leading the Egypt Task Force, which is holding a Tuesday summit as well (...)
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) is lobbying President Mohammed Morsy to hold accountable those who cut off communication networks during the 25 January violence at the beginning of last year's revolution.
“Our organisation (...)
The owners of the Bolvera spinning and weaving plant in Alexandria have threatened to withhold wages if workers continue strike action
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The owners of the Bolvera spinning and weaving plant in Alexandria have (...)
East African street vendors sell black market goods on Neve Sha'anan street in Tel Aviv
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Demsas lives in Cairo with other men who escaped the torture house where they were held in the Sinai. He is scared to leave (...)
Political gathering in Marsa Matrouh
(File photo by Mohamed Farag)
Ahmed Helmy Fathi Al-Hatimi, Matruh's new governor, hosted the meeting to resolve a dispute over who would be selected for a highly-anticipated meeting between President Mohammed (...)
A policeman and two civilians were shot at a family funeral in Aswan. It was unclear if Major Mohammed Abu Alnasr Mashaly was attending the funeral as a mourner or a security official. Major Ahmed Hader of the Interior Ministry's central offices (...)
Aswan was one of the governorates identified in a reported letter from the FJP to President Morsy that pushed for changes to governor appointments
(Photo by Amir Mamdouh)
The public gaze is being cast on possible changes in the leadership of Egypt's (...)
Foreign Minister Mohamed Amr (centre) met a delegation from the EU (File photo)
Nazih El-Naggary, spokesman for the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed Amr, confirmed that Amr sat down with a delegation from the European Union Parliament on (...)
Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh waves to supporters on the steps of the Supreme Court as he arrives to register the Strong Egypt party. (PHOTO BY MOHAMED OMAR)
Strong Egypt is a new kind of political party, and on Wednesday it sought to make its presence (...)
The Building and Development Party (BDP) will march on Tuesday to the office of Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud, demanding that he resigns. They do so under the guise of the “Revolution to Work on Judicial Independence," a coalition that the (...)
The notion of closing early elicits laughter from shop owners. (PHOTO BY HASSAN IBRAHIM)
Monday is the slated start date for a controversial law requested by Prime Minister Hisham Qandil that would require almost all non-tourist centred shops to (...)
An American woman has been banned from entering Egypt after verbally attacking a visa agent at the Egyptian consulate in Aqaba, Jordan and insulting Egypt.
The Foreign Ministry took the move after a report from the consulate last week that the woman (...)
Confusion over a missing boy and the discovery of a charred corpse led to fighting outside a hospital in the Nile Delta town of Belqas. Ibrahim Ahmed, 15, went missing on Friday afternoon, then on Saturday a burned body was found in a nearby (...)
Athletes and football supporters demonstrate near the Manassa monument demanding the resumption of Egyptian league football. (Photo by Mohamed Omar)
Professional football players marched along with a group of other athletes to the presidential (...)