When parliament reconvened on Sunday, Speaker Ali Abdel-Aal began the plenary session by saying MPs were keen that the newly-drafted law regulating the performance and election of local councils be discussed soon. He told MPs that some commentators (...)
Parliament has passed amendments to laws that tackle the ongoing fight against terrorism.
On Monday, amendments to Law 8/2015 on terrorist entities and Law 94/2015 on anti-terrorism were passed.
Bahaaeddin Abu Shoka, head of the Legislative and (...)
Egyptian parliamentary speaker Ali Abdel-Aal met a delegation affiliated with the Egyptian-French Parliamentary Friendship Association on Tuesday.
During the meeting, Abdel-Aal reviewed the Egyptian parliament's list of legislative achievements in (...)
The Egyptian parliament's legislative and constitutional affairs committee approved on Sunday a new batch of amendments to the 94/2015 Anti-Terror Law that will focus on clamping down on sources of funding for terrorist crimes, and toughening (...)
A two-day conference held by Al-Azhar triggered a stormy debate in political and religious circles this week.
The Al-Azhar International Conference on the Renewal of Islamic Thought, held on 27 and 28 January, focused on mechanisms needed to renew (...)
A Cairo criminal court handed former military officer Hisham Ashmawi a second death sentence on terrorism charges on Saturday. Ashmawi, 42, was handed his first death sentence in November by a military court.
The court ordered that the sentences (...)
Mohamed Ali, a onetime military contractor living in exile in Spain, who launched a social media campaign against the regime of President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, announced on Saturday that he is abandoning politics, Gamal Essam El-Din reports.
In a (...)
Parliament's Legislative and Constitutional Affairs Committee began discussing government-drafted amendments to the Terrorist Entities Law on Monday.
Bahaaeddin Abu Shoka, chairman of the committee, said four-years after Law 8/2015 was first (...)
The one-day summit held in Berlin on Sunday called for a comprehensive political settlement of the Libyan crisis through consolidating the ceasefire declared on 12 January. It urged the two warring parties — the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by (...)
Egypt has seen intensive diplomatic and parliamentary discussions this week on developments in Libya.
Aquila Saleh, speaker of the Tobruk-based and internationally recognised Libyan parliament, addressed Egypt's House of Representatives on Sunday, (...)
MPs teamed up this week to criticise the government's announcement on 9 January that it is currently considering eliminating the old commodity and food subsidies system in favour of cash payments. Parliament Speaker Ali Abdel-Aal joined forces, (...)
The speaker of Egypt's House of Representatives, Ali Abdel-Aal, said at a plenary meeting of parliament on Sunday morning that any government decision to change subsidy systems should be first discussed in parliament.
“I stress that a shift from one (...)
MP Fayeka Fahim directed a question to Parliament Speaker Ali Abdel-Aal last week asking why parliament has postponed the discussion of the newly-drafted law regulating the election and performance of local councils.
“Parliament began discussing the (...)
On 22 December 2019, five years after the Information Ministry was abolished, a new minister of state for media affairs was named in the long-awaited cabinet reshuffle.
MP Mohamed Fouad directed an inquiry to Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli on 23 (...)
A number of Egyptian MPs called on Saturday for boycotting Turkish products in the Arab world.
"Arabs should stand united and boycott all Turkish products on sale in Arab markets," said El-Badri Deif, an independent MP and deputy chairman of (...)
In comments made on the sidelines of the Aswan Forum for Peace and Sustainable Development over the weekend, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi pledged not to ratify an anticipated law aimed at regulating personal affairs unless it was fair to women. “I (...)
At the end of a three-day World Youth Forum held at the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh on 16 December, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi answered questions from the foreign media on some of the most critical issues related to Egypt's relations with (...)
Egypt's Future of Homeland Party last week took the initiative of calling political forces to a national dialogue. Two sessions were held on 3 and 4 December and more are scheduled for next week.
The dialogue attracted representatives from (...)
Egypt's parliament renewed attacks against the government of Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli over three days this week.
On Sunday, Parliament Speaker Ali Abdel-Aal slammed Minister of Justice Mohamed Hossam as one cabinet minister who passes pn (...)
In a plenary meeting held on Sunday, Egypt's parliament speaker Ali Abdel-Aal slammed Minister of Justice Mohamed Hossam, accusing him of doing nothing to improve services offered by public notary offices.
"Ordinary citizens and lawyers have (...)
Egypt's third edition of the 2019 World Youth Forum (WYT) will be held from 14 to 17 December in the Red Sea tourist resort of Sharm El-Sheikh. A record 300,000 young people from 196 countries are expected to attend the event, compared with 122,000 (...)
The post of minister of information was abolished in June 2014. For almost a quarter of a century it had been held by Safwat Al-Sherif, who served as Hosni Mubarak's minister of information between 1981 and 2005 and secretary-general of the ruling (...)
Tarek Metwally, deputy chairman of the Egyptian parliament's industrial committee, told reporters on Tuesday that the long-awaited government-drafted public enterprise law will be referred to the House of Representatives very soon.
"Informed sources (...)
Egypt's parliamentary speaker Ali Abdel-Aal told South Sudanese President Salva Kiir that Egypt fully supports permanent and comprehensive peace in South Sudan.
In a meeting on Tuesday morning, Abdel-Aal, who headed an Egyptian parliamentary (...)
With no mention that there would be an imminent cabinet reshuffle, Egyptian MPs voted in a 10-minute extraordinary meeting on Thursday in favour of extending the term of Tarek Amer in office as governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) for a (...)
