The border crossing between Egypt and Gaza at Rafah reopened Wednesday morning after security officials ended their strike protesting the abduction of seven security conscripts last week. The border crossing had been closed since last Friday, (...)
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayeb announced that Al-Azhar will be sending out convoys throughout Egypt to spread moderate Islamic thought, and to right misconceptions and destructive beliefs, particularly in regards to violence and (...)
The Cairo Criminal Court ruled Wednesday morning to acquit seven police officers of murdering and injuring protesters during the events of “the Friday of rage" on 28 January 2011, according to state-run news agency MENA.
Eyewitnesses testified to (...)
The AmericanUniversity in Cairo Music Department hit all the right notes in their double feature of “The Telephone" and “Les Miserables".
The night opened with “The Telephone," a one-act comedic opera telling the story of a man who is attempting to (...)
Prime Minister Hesham Qandil has met with his Libyan counterpart Ali Zidane on Tuesday in Cairo. The Libyan prime minister was visiting Egypt as the head of a high-level delegation sent to continue discussions on improving bilateral relations (...)
Families and school groups flocked to the Cairo International Indoor Stadium last Friday and Saturday to catch the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters drive, dribble, and dunk in their blended show of comedy and basketball.
The show consisted of an (...)
The National Salvation Front (NSF) released a statement condemning the Suez Canal Development Project draft law, saying that it would lead to the loss of Egyptian lands to an institution with no restrictions or systems of accountability.
In the (...)
The Shura Council's National Security Committee called for reforming the Homeland Security sector of the Ministry of Interior in a meeting with the national security body on Monday, accusing them of torturing and mistreating citizens, and (...)
Soraya Bahgat, founder of anti-sexual harassment organisation Tahrir Bodyguard, spoke at the Oslo Freedom Forum on Tuesday on the role of women in Egypt in the revolution and their status since former president Hosni Mubarak's resignation.
"Women (...)
International exhibition basketball team the Harlem Globetrotters arrived in Cairo on Wednesday ahead of three much-anticipated performances scheduled for Friday and Saturday.
The team has been touring the world entertaining families with their (...)
The Egyptian delegation to the United Nations (UN) in New York s addressed letters to the secretary-general and the president of the Security Council on Tuesday condemning Israel's most recent attack on Syria and demanding that the UN take (...)
Minister for Environmental Affairs Khaled Fahmy and Egyptian ambassador to Germany Mohamed Hegazy attended the Petersburg Climate Dialogue in Berlin on Monday and Tuesday.
They met with representatives from 35 other countries to discuss (...)
The Court of Cassation rejected the prosecutor general's appeal of the ‘Battle of the Camel' verdict onWednesday morning, reported state-run Al-Ahram.
The verdict initially came from the Cairo Criminal Court last October, when the court acquitted 24 (...)
Egyptian Ambassador to Yemen Ashraf Akl and Egyptian Consul in Aden Haddad El-Gohary are coordinating with the Yemeni government to secure the release of two Egyptian nationals who were abducted on Monday in the Abyan governorate by members of a (...)
Four members of the Al-Tayar Al-Sha'aby (Popular Current) and 6 April Democratic Front, including two women, were arrested Monday afternoon during a protest by the Presidential Palace.
They are being detained on charges of disturbing the peace, (...)
Police were “lazy" and slow to react to incidents of verbal sexual harassment throughout the Sham El-Nessim holiday, the I Saw Harassment initiative said in an official report on Monday. Despite the lack of police action the initiative did not note (...)
Two rockets landed in Eilat on Wednesday morning, according to a military source in the Israeli Defence Force. The rockets were fired from Sinai, the source claimed.
Ahmed Ali, a military spokesperson for the Egyptian Ministry of Defence, denied (...)
Fireworks lit up the sky over the Mohammed Ali Palace in Maniel on Tuesday night as Egyptian politicians, actors and leading sports figures gathered to celebrate the victory of the National under-20 football team in the African Cup.
After winning (...)
Four bakers were arrested in Aswan on Tuesday during a city-wide strike by bakery owners protesting the government's new policies affecting the price of bread and flour.
They were accused of violence against the security forces, according to Mostafa (...)
President Mohamed Morsi and Foreign Minister Mohamed Amr met with the Eritrean foreign minister Osman Saleh and the Eritrean presidential adviser for political affairs, Yamani Jabr, in Cairo on Monday to boost bilateral relations between the (...)
The Jewish Community Council (JCC) of Cairo unanimously elected Magda Haroun as their new president in a general assembly meeting on Monday. The election was triggered by the death of former community president Carmen Weinstein on 13 April.
As the (...)
The National Council for Women (NCW) sent a letter to Ahmed Fahmy, Speaker of the Shura Council, condemning the Committee on Human Rights for their criticism of the United Nation's (UN) declaration against violence towards women.
Members of the (...)
Around 40 members of the 6 April Youth Movement began a hunger strike in solidarity with four members who have been detained since 29 March, according to Khaled El-Masry, the movement's media director.
The strikers presented themselves at police (...)
Minister of Interior Mohamed Ibrahim has launched a full investigation into an alleged attack on a woman visiting the Police Hospital in Agouza, a source from the Interior Ministry told state-owned Al-Ahram.
The investigation came about after three (...)
President Mohammed Morsi met with the board of trustees of the Library of Alexandria on Saturday at the presidential palace in Heliopolis. At the meeting he praised the library as an institution with truly Egyptian roots, international influence, a (...)