Preliminary results of the first phase of parliamentary elections came in favor of its Freedom and Justice Party, followed by the Salafi Nour Party and the liberal Egyptian Bloc Coalition, the Muslim Brotherhood has announced.
The Brotherhood said (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood has criticized the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) for its sluggishness in issuing a law that politically isolates those who corrupted political life before the revolution, especially members of the dissolved (...)
Salafi leader Mahmoud Amer has said there should be conditions on women running in the upcoming parliamentary elections, namely that they should be veiled, and that they should not talk to men except when utterly necessary.
Three Salafi parties, the (...)
The general guide of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Mohamed Badei said in his weekly statement on Thursday that he fears the repetition of the 1954 military coup scenario and warned the military council against continuing in power.
He said also (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party has warned the military council of remaining in power until a new constitution is approved.
In a press statement on Tuesday, the party said the council had claimed that the new constitution would be (...)
A number of experts in Islamic affairs expect that the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party will not attain more than 25 percent of the seats in the upcoming parliament, since the recent passage of a new elections law banning members of (...)
Representatives of the 25 January Revolution Youth Coalition met Mourad Mowafy, chief of Egypt's intelligence service, and a number of intelligence officers on Thursday evening to discuss the domestic and external security situation.
They discussed (...)
Ahmed Abu Baraka, the legal adviser of the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, was assaulted on Tuesday morning by unidentified assailants who tried to steal his bag. The attack took place on Mohamed Mahmoud (...)
The Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood group, is likely to run for less than 50 percent of parliamentary seats in the upcoming elections, according to Wahid Abdel Meguid, elections coordinator for the Democratic (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood Youth group called on all political parties and movements on Wednesday to take a strong stance against the continuing referral of civilians to military trials.
The group also denounced the use of military courts to try (...)
A number of youths from the Muslim Brotherhood, in coordination with traffic authorities in Nasser City, have organized a popular committee to help improve road traffic conditions in the area, which is plagued by congestion.
The civilian traffic (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday criticized the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) for its intent to announce a declaration that would set general guidelines for the constitutional committee to abide by when writing Egypt's new (...)
The memberships of around 4000 Muslim Brotherhood youths who joined Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh's presidential election campaign, have been frozen, according to several Brotherhood youths. Meanwhile, Brotherhood members of the 25 January (...)
Muslim Brotherhood Deputy General Guide Khairat al-Shater said the group is preparing to establish an Islamic studies center that aims to help rebuild Egypt on the principles of Islamic Sharia.
“The brothers after the revolution want to play a (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) called on Thursday for a law that prohibiting the former leaders of the dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP) from exercising any political activity for a certain period of time.
"This is the best way to start (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie has offered an explanation for the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak, suggesting that Egypt's tyranical leader was the victim of God's wrath because his regime mercilessly persucuted the (...)
Hundreds of doctors and health service providers organized a rally on Sunday which began outside the Doctors Syndicate headquarters and headed to cabinet headquarters on Qasr al-Aini Street in downtown Cairo. The protesters demanded the resignation (...)
The committee responsible for organizing a renewed strike for non-emergency doctors, which began today, announced that 90 percent participated in hospitals nationwide.
The Doctors Syndicate committee had organized a strike last week, threatening to (...)
The Doctors Syndicate said it would organize a strike at all hospitals nationwide on Tuesday because the government has ignored its demands.
The doctors demand better salaries and working conditions. They also request that the government allocate 15 (...)
The Doctors Syndicate announced a nationwide strike in all hospitals on Monday, despite requests by some doctors to postpone the strike in light of casualties from the sectarian clashes in Imbaba on Saturday.
The committee organizing the strike (...)
The Doctors Syndicate has given the go-ahead for members to vote for or against a general strike in all hospitals nationwide.
The decision to hold the vote was made by the syndicate's Emergency General Assembly, and the ballot is to be held from 11 (...)
Abdel Moneim Abul Fottouh, a Muslim Brotherhood member in the Shura Council, Egypt's upper house of parliament, said he mulls running for president as an independent candidate.
At a symposium at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria's famed modern (...)
The doctors syndicate rejected a Health Ministry resolution to demolish the Abbasiya Psychiatric Hospital and build a replacement elsewhere.
“We will file lawsuits against the ministry here and abroad if need be,” said syndicate president Hamdi (...)
In a statement issued on Thursday, the Egyptian Pharmacists Syndicate rejected proposals to raise prices of imported drugs and medicines but approved increases in the price of their locally produced counterparts.
The syndicate justified the move by (...)
Road accidents in Egypt kill an average of 30 people every day, former transportation minister Essam Sharaf said at a conference held in Cairo on Sunday to commemorate the International World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Accident Victims.
The (...)