CAIRO: Violent clashes broke out between dozens of street vendors in Tahrir Square with bottles, sticks and tea glasses being used, as an altercation started over where vendors were situated.
The popular committees interfered to stop the clashes; (...)
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 (...)
CAIRO: Ali Abdel Salam, mother of martyr Ahmed Sayed Sorour, today spoke with Youm7 while waiting for the arrival of her son's body at the Zeinhom Morgue.
“My son wished martyrdom every day he went to Tahrir,” Salam tearfully reported. “Ahmed and (...)
The families of those injured and killed during the January 25 Revolution protested outside the Revolution Care Fund to call for quick sentencing of those accused of killing or injuring their relatives.
Protesters called for reform, a change of (...)
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 (...)
Members of the Public Administration of the Private Police Guard today staged a demonstration outside the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior to protest a recent decision to limit work hours to eight hours and one day off per week instead of the (...)
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 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 (...)
The Waft Party and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) have agreed to enter the upcoming parliamentary elections on a unified candidacy list, and have invited other parties to join them.
Wafd Party Vice President Bahaa Abu Shaqa said that his party (...)
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 (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood group on Tuesday started official procedures for the establishment of its new Freedom and Justice political party.
The group is filling in the application form to submit it to the Party Affairs Committee.
“The application will (...)
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 (...)
Aboud al-Zomor, one of the plotters of Sadat's assassination in 1981, called on the Muslim Brotherhood group to rescind its position of non-participation in the next presidential elections and field one of its qualified cadres in them. Al-Zomor was (...)
“Political parties have the right to nominate women or Copts for the presidency,” said Muslim Brotherhood member Mohsen Radi. “But we find it unsuitable. Perhaps they should be nominated only for ministerial positions.”
Radi also said the group (...)
Cairo University will be awarding Egyptian first lady Suzanne Mubarak an honorary doctorate on Thursday.
Guests at the ceremony will be greeted with poster-sized photos of the most important figures to have received the distinction in the past 30 (...)
Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed has officially handed over the world-famous Harrods department store to the Qatari government, after selling the store two weeks ago.
Al-Fayed owned the department store for more than a quarter of a century. His (...)
Security authorities blocked a demonstration yesterday in Tahrir Square called by the 6 April Youth movement to protest the murder of Khaled Saeed, an Alexandrian teen allegedly killed by two police officers.
Thirty protesters were arrested and held (...)
Some 30 Egyptian activists staged demonstrations in front of the Egyptian embassy in London for two hours on Saturday to protest the death of Khaled Saeed, who was allegedly beaten to death by police in Alexandria two weeks ago.
The protesters, (...)
Egyptian activists in Washington and London will stage demostrations this weekend to condemn the murder of Khaled Saeed, a young man allegedly killed by police officers in Alexandria last week. A protest is also scheduled in Cairo's Tahrir (...)