In response to a recent wave of deadly clashes throughout the country, President Mohamed Morsi imposed a 30-day state of emergency – including daily curfews – in the canal cities of Suez, Ismailia and Port Said. Egypt's new constitution, however, (...)
Egypt's liberal Constitution Party has announced that it began internal party elections after last month's constitutional referendum. Some party members, however, have continued to demand the resignation of certain unelected party officials.
"We are (...)
Political activist Mohannad Samir was shot in Tahrir Square Monday morning by a group of four unknown civilians, eyewitness Eslam Noureddin, told Ahram Online.
Samir, who was bleeding heavily, was hospitalised at Ahmed Maher Hospital.
"The doctors (...)
Almost everything in Egypt is currently polarised: the political players, the people and the media as well.
This polarisation has brought up a society and a media system suffering from borderline personality disorder, where black and white thinking (...)
“Mubarak's days were even better than now,” said Ayman Mohamed.
“No, not to that extent,” replied Saleh Ali.
“Tell me one thing that has changed during the past two years,” said Mohamed.
Silence.
This was a conversation between two Egyptians in (...)
A read into the results of the first stage of Egypt's referendum on the constitution presents two important observations: The first is that the turnout was significantly lower than the four national votes after Egypt's January 25 Revolution. The (...)
Salafists groups claim at a press conference on Thursday that recent Tahrir Square protests against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's constitutional declaration are "counter-revolutionary." Yet, their support for President Morsi is limited, as the (...)
"Another who denies the Holocaust." The phrase, spoken by Constitution Party head Mohamed ElBaradei in an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel magazine on Monday has been seized upon by the Muslim Brotherhood's official website (ikhwanonline) and (...)
"One of the revolution's ambitions is guaranteeing that power is neither concentrated in neither one hand nor one entity," a tweet published in Arabic by the US Embassy Cairo Twitter account on Tuesday.
After, the launch of a hot debate started (...)
As Egypt's ongoing political battle heats up, Egypt bid farewell on Monday to two new 'martyrs,' aged 15 and 16, in two emotional and painful funerals – one on Mohamed Mahmoud Street near Cairo's Tahrir Square and the other in the Nile Delta city of (...)
A new constitutional declaration issued on Thursday gives the president unlimited powers, say some legal experts, and will allow President Mohamed Morsi to reinstate the dissolved Islamist-led parliament and appoint a new prosecutor-general.
"With (...)
Since the eruption of last year's January 25 Revolution, Egyptians have lived through anxious nights filled with fear and violence. But nothing has been more painful than the four days of clashes in November of last year on Cairo's now-iconic (...)
The Socialist Popular Alliance adds itself to the list of parties whose members walked out of the Constituent Assembly [WHEN] to object to the overwhelming religious character of the constitution drafting body.
While the SPA praises the fact that (...)
With prayers and blessings in the name of Jesus Christ, spiritual leaders on Sunday anointed Tawadros II as pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church at St. Mark's Cathedral in the heart of Cairo.
The crowd moved between tears and cheers during the (...)
"It has been so dark for Copts lately, and Pope Tawadros II seems to be the light at the end of the tunnel," Miriam Nasser, a 30-year-old housewife told Ahram Online at St Mark's Cathedral in Cairo's Abbasiya district after Tawadros was named the (...)
Egypt's Administrative Court on Tuesday referred a lawsuit on the fate of the Constituent Assembly to the High Constitutional Court. The decision means the status of the constitution-drafting body remains uncertain.
The court will rule on the (...)
Egypt's Administrative Court will on Tuesday deliver its final verdict on the fate of the Constituent Assembly.
Several lawsuits have been filed challenging the constitutionality of the constitution-drafting assembly and the mechanism for choosing (...)
Egypt's Islamist-dominated constitution-writing committee gets breathing space to finish draft after lawsuit against it is referred to High Court; Liberal-Islamist differences unlikely to be resolved any time soon
Egypt's Supreme Administrative (...)
"The moment I saw my brother laying on the ground covered with blood, after he was run over by an armoured military vehicle, fails to leave my memory, even one year later. Especially as I was hit when I tried to pick him up," says Wael Bishay, (...)
The gates of the American University in Cairo campus, which have been shut for more than 10 days due to a student-led sit-in, were opened, Monday, after an agreement was brokered between the university administration and the demonstrators.
The (...)
Draft articles of Egypt's new national charter will vastly reduce powers of both army and police, yet critics say the vacuum is likely to be filled by an empowered presidency
Egypt's January 25 Revolution served to magnify tensions between the army (...)
On Friday, Egypt's doctors agreed to hold an open strike, which will exclude emergency medical treatment and some other key areas, until their demands relating to pay and working conditions are met.
"For a doctor to treat patients, he must have (...)
AUC students collect signatures calling for campus closure until demands for fee reduction are met; University administration voices support for free expression as long as it doesn't infringe on rights of others
Conflict continues to simmer between (...)
A Coptic Christian schoolteacher, Bishoy Kamel, has been sentenced to six years in prison for posting cartoons on Facebook deemed defamatory to Islam and the Prophet Mohamed, and for insulting President Mohamed Morsi and his family.
The Sohag (...)
A couple hundred students from Egypt's American University in Cairo (AUC) staged a demonstration on Thursday at the university's new campus in the New Cairo district to protest a 7 per cent annual increase in college tuition fees.
Protesting (...)