Residents of Cairo's Warraq Island – who the government says are residing there illegally – have chosen a committee of 10 members, instead of 30 as proposed by authorities, to negotiate with the government over the fate of their homes, the former (...)
CAIRO: Recently elected parliamentarian Amr Hamzawy said he rejected the establishment of an advisory council which was announced by Egypt's ruling military council.
"I do not see the need for or purpose of this council and we don't want to (...)
Two unknown groups of people in civilian clothes clashed in Cairo's Tahrir Square and Abdel Moniem Riyad Square Tuesday night, after clashes reportedly broke out following an altercation between street vendors and protestors.
Fifty-nine were (...)
Prominent Egyptian politician Ayman Nour expressed his delight at the Supreme Administrative court's verdict to allow dissolved National Democratic Party members' candidacy for people and Shura Council elections.
He said this step meant Egyptians (...)
The undersecretary of the political party Masr al-Hurryea (The Egypt Freedom Party), Amr Hamzawy, rejected a document proposed by Ali el-Selmy for supra-constitutional principles at a symposium at Diwan bookstore Thursday.
Hamzawy, a prominent (...)
SHARQEYA, Egypt: The Sharqeya branch of April 6 Movement launched a new campaign entitled ‘Parlimentary elections in black and white,' aiming to educate citizens of the dangers of electing remnants of the former regime.
One participant of the (...)
CAIRO: Moussa Mustafa Moussa, chairman of an al-Ghad Party faction, announced that he intends to run in Egypt's upcoming presidential election, expected next year.
Moussa said he is collecting votes to register as an official candidate as per (...)
CAIRO: A demonstration to protest the political isolation of prominent opposition figure Ayman Nour is being organized for tomorrow at 5pm outside the Journalists Syndicate in downtown Cairo.
The protest is organized by the ‘Support Ayman Nour' (...)
CAIRO: Prominent opposition figure Ayman Nour today submitted a plea to Egypt's Attorney General to overturn Sunday's verdict, passed by the Cairo Court of Cassation.
Nour, a likely presidential candidate and head of the liberal al-Ghad Party, (...)
An international conference will be held in Washington, D.C. under the title, "The Egyptian Revolution: The way to democracy and development." The conference will be held October 21-25.
The American-Egyptian Assembly and the Egyptian Association (...)
SHARKIYA, Egypt: Expected presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi said he does not approve of the parliamentary election law but wants the presidential elections to be held as soon as possible.
During a public conference in Sharqia, Sabbahi said (...)
Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman's family stressed the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to intervene in the release of the "blind Sheikh."
Abdel Rahman's son Mohamed said security parties in Egypt don't mind the return of Omar Abdel Rahman and the (...)
Finance Ministers of the G7 Group yesterday pledged to commit U.S. $38 billion in aid to Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Jordan in the period between 2011 and 2013, adding that the Transitional National Council in Libya will be invited to join the (...)
Members of the Syrian community in Egypt protested outside the Arab League Headquarters Monday, demonstrating against Syrian government violence towards protestors.
Protestors opposed attempts to distort the Syrian cause, and rejected the Syrian (...)
Sharquia governorate today witnessed the birth of the first child of one of the January 25 Revolution martyrs.
Ihab Hussein Muslim died alongside 18 others at the Zaweya police station on the eve of the January 28, a date that came to be known as (...)
Ezzat Fahmy, a driver who was slapped by businessman Mohamed Farid Khamis during a visit with Prime Minster Essam Sharaf in 10th of Ramadan city, a Cairo suburb, refused to waive his rights or drop the case he filed against the businessman. Fahmy (...)
Clashes in the now-iconic Tahrir Square erupted between protesters and street vendors after an altercation between the civilian-led Tahrir security and a street vendor took place earlier this evening. The argument escalated into rock-throwing (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Attorney General, Abdel Magid Mahmoud, received a report from Farid Ismail, secretary of the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Freedom and Justice Party in Sharkeya, accusing former President Hosni Mubarak of harming national security and (...)
SHARQEYA, Egypt: Potential presidency candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi and Abdel Hakim Abdel Nasser, son of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser are visiting the governorate of Sharkeya. Demonstrators in Sharkeya have been sitting in front of the (...)
The scandal of the former director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominque Strauss-Kahn, cast a shadow on the mechanisms of action of IMF and the World Bank (WB).
The scandal caused the IMF to alter contracts drawn with its employees, (...)
CAIRO: Traffic in Tahrir Square resumed normality on Saturday. Dozens of protestors continue their sit-in for the third day in a row and increased the number of tents in the central garden. There are chants and speeches, a distribution of political (...)
Traffic resumed as normal in Cairo's Tahrir Square today as dozens of protesters continued their sit-in for the third day in a row. The number of tents in the square's central garden increased. Chants, speeches, distribution of political information (...)
Demonstrators at al-Salam camps closed the road today outside the Egyptian television headquarters, Maspiro.
This was their way of objecting to how long the process of research is taking on whether or not they are eligible to obtain housing (...)