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 (...)
Islamist parties called on military Chief of Staff Sami Anan during a meeting on Saturday to end the state of emergency, apply the Treachery Law against former National Democratic Party (NDP) members, hand over power to a civilian government before (...)
Informed sources claim a delegation of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group, headed by Deputy General Guide Khairat al-Shater, met with the military council on Monday, hours before the group announced that it would boycott Friday's million-man (...)
The Jama'a al-Islamiya submitted an application on Tuesday to form its first political party, listing in its several thousand founding members a handful of Copts and over 100 women.
The application for official registration of the Building and (...)
Two newly formed liberal parties, the Social Democratic Party and the Free Egyptians Party, presented their applications for establishment to the Political Parties Affairs Committee on Tuesday.
The committee, however, declined to receive the (...)
The Jama'a al-Islamiya decided to form a political party to run in the next parliamentary election.
“But we won't field a candidate in the presidential elections,” said Abdel Akhar Hammad, head of the group's elections committee.
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