The Culture, Tourism and Media Committee of the People's Assembly demanded Thursday that the ruling military council fire the director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Ismail Serageldin, along with the board of trustees headed by Suzanne Mubarak, (...)
The Ministry of Justice has objected to bills submitted by MPs Amr Hamzawy, Hatem Azzam and Ziad al-Elaimy, requesting that presidential elections be moved forward in order to shorten the transitional period.
“The provisions of the bills are a (...)
The recently launched campaign supporting Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), for president aims to drive a wedge between the people and the military, presidential hopeful Mohamed Selim al-Awa has (...)
Three presidential candidates have criticized the meeting between the ruling military council and political party leaders on Saturday, considering its outcome a “circumvention” of the revolution.
“Agreeing on the Emergency Law was unjustifiable,” (...)
Members of 17 political parties and movements have marched to the cabinet building to protest the Emergency Law. They held banners warning of the hijacking of the revolution.
The marchers were joined by supporters of Omar Abdel Rahman, who is (...)
Egyptian political parties have agreed with the country's ruling military council to make suggestions about the electoral system for parliamentary elections, said Refaat al-Saeed, chairman of the leftist Tagammu Party.
After a meeting on Sunday (...)
Egypt's economy is in a bottle neck, said Deputy Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawy on Monday.
“It will be for a year or so, but it will be tough,” he said, pointing to a shortage in financial resources and a state budget deficit. “We must reduce (...)
The recent Muslim Brotherhood statement demanding that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) refrain from interfering in how the constitution is drawn up by producing a list of supra-constitutional principles could mean the end of the (...)
The National Accord Conference on Thursday presented its recommendations to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), most significant of which is a proposal to abolish the military's role in protecting the president, as was stipulated in the (...)
Naguib Sawiris, co-founder of the Free Egyptians Party, at his meeting with members of the Front Party on Sunday, was criticized for displaying cartoons on his Twitter account that they found disparaging to Islam.
The cartoons showed Disney (...)
Presidential candidate Mohamed Selim al-Awa has criticized Prime Minister Essam Sharaf for supporting the idea that a new constitution should be written before parliamentary elections.
“This is mere futility,” he said, "and Prime Minister Essam (...)
Islamic thinker Selim al-Awa said on Saturday that there should not be an article in the new constitution tasking the military with the protection of the secular state, suggesting that this would make Egypt a military state.
“The military does not (...)
Major-General Mamdouh Shain, legal advisor to the Egyptian defense minister, called on Thursday for a special status for the armed forces in the new constitution, exempting it from being at the “discretion” of the president, as he put it.
At the (...)
Egypt's Minister of Manpower and Immigration, Ahmed Hassan al-Borai, predicted on Sunday that his government will set a minimum wage within five months.
Al-Borai said the government needs between two and five months to decide on the issue, which he (...)
The funeral of Diaa Eddin Dawoud, president of the Nasserist Party, took place on Wednesday at his hometown of al-Rouda in Damietta. He had just turned 85 years of age.
The funeral was attended by the governor of Damietta and leaders of the Muslim (...)
A meeting of parliament's culture and information committee on Sunday discussed a report by Egypt's Central Auditing Organization revealing that the state-owned Radio and Television Union (RTU) had incurred a total of LE11 billion in losses.
MPs in (...)
Egyptian members parliament, at a meeting of the body's health committee on Monday, rejected the new bylaws that suggest privatizing public hospitals during the afternoon shift starting at 1PM.
They considered the new bylaws a step towards the (...)
Smoking will be officially banned in all public places in Egypt by 2015, Health Minister Hatem al-Gabli announced this week.
Violators, he said, would be subject to fines of LE1000 for taxi drivers, LE15,000 for coffee shop owners and LE100 for (...)
Members of parliament on Monday criticized the media and called for banning it from covering investigations of the Alexandria church bombing.
“The Penal Code punishes anyone interfering in investigations,” MP Zakaria Azmy told media representatives (...)
Minister of Higher Education Hani Helal on Tuesday said education is not a state expenditure priority.
“But it is a top priority for families and we hope this will be reflected on the state,” he said at the Shura Council's education committee (...)
Two parliamentary candidates representing the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) for Cairo's Nasr City district claim they are being pressured by ranking party members to bow out of next month's elections to allow Petroleum Minister Sameh Fahmi (...)
Egyptian security services on Wednesday released political activist Shadi al-Ghazali Harb roughly 30 hours after his initial arrest.
Harb, a doctor at Cairo's Kasr al-Eini medical school, had been picked up by security personnel at Cairo (...)
Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) has suspended the membership of relatives of party candidates who will run in the next parliamentary elections, until the elections are over.
“We want to prevent any suspicion of favoritism,” said NDP (...)
People's Assembly Speaker Fathi Sorour and Shura Council Speaker Safwat al-Sherif have approved an earlier request filed by Justice Minister Mamdouh Marie to deprive14 MPs implicated in state-funded medical treatment violations of their (...)
An Egyptian opposition coalition consisting of the liberal Wafd, leftist Tagammu, pan-Arab Nasserite and liberal Democratic Front parties will meet Wednesday to discuss whether they will boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections slated for next (...)