After much speculation and anticipation, President Mohamed Morsy announced his 21-member presidential team Monday, revealing a staff dominated by Islamists and Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers, excluding opponents and figures critical of the Islamist (...)
“Breaking: Mohamed Morsy is the president of the Egyptian Republic,” said activists on social media websites jokingly as an expression of Morsy's assertion of power after catching the country off guard by sending the head of the Supreme Council of (...)
A two-day meeting of Syrian opposition groups, considered one of the most diverse and inclusive since the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, highlighted longterm ideological disparities and mistrust between various factions. (...)
Many Egyptians have not yet sobered from the ecstasy of finally getting a civilian president, for the first time in the history of the 60-year-old republic.
But only a few days after the announcement of Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate (...)
When Hosni Mubarak was president, Kamel Ahmed would sit in a furnished garage next to a busy intersection in Cairo's Manial neighborhood, discussing campaign strategies with others working for Fathy Gleed, a former candidate for Mubarak's National (...)
SUEZ — The first post-revolution presidential election has attracted much hype in local and international media, but that excitement was not reflected in Suez, where the first protester was killed in the 25 January revolution.
During the early hours (...)
Just 10 days before Egypt's much anticipated presidential election is set to begin, 10 young men and women are running frantically between speeding cars in front of Maspero, the state radio and TV building, distributing flyers for Khaled Ali, the (...)
The Presidential Elections Commission's disqualification of former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq from the upcoming election yesterday makes the headlines of local newspapers on Wednesday.
In its meeting Tuesday evening, the commission decided to (...)
Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members flocked to the streets on Friday in mass marches in the name of "protecting the revolution." They were the first large-scale political protests the capitol has seen in months, after other revolutionary and (...)
When Omar Suleiman, former spy chief and vice president under ousted President Hosni Mubarak, appeared for 30 seconds on 11 February 2011 to announce Mubarak's resignation, many thought that it was the end of his career and an era. But just over a (...)
The echoes of the decision of the Muslim Brotherhood and its Freedom and Justice Party to field Khairat al-Shater in the presidential election are still resonating loudly in local newspapers' pages. Most are filled with reactions and analysis to the (...)
The standoff between Parliament and the cabinet reached a climax this week when cabinet members failed to attend a parliamentary session on Wednesday, forcing Saad al-Katatny, the People's Assembly speaker, to adjourn the session until 28 March.
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State-run daily Al-Ahram leads with the headline, “158 requests on the first day of applications for presidential candidacy,” as do the rest of Egypt's newspapers on Sunday.
“On the first day of presidential candidacy applications, no candidate (...)
Although he was forced to resign as prime minister in the face of raging protests just one year ago because of his ties to Hosni Mubarak's regime, Ahmed Shafiq defiantly returns to the scene to run in Egypt's first post-Mubarak presidential election (...)
It has become a routine in every parliamentary session to watch Islamist MPs shouting to interrupt MP Mohamed Abou Hamed while talking. For one, it brought Hamed greater attention.
In what will go down in history as a popular scene from the first (...)
In Shamma, a small village north of Cairo in Monufiya Governorate, about a hundred farmers gathered eagerly last Monday at a local youth center to discuss their dreams for Egypt's future and what rights they hope the post-revolution constitution (...)
Bashar al-Assad's army is barraging residential buildings and hospitals in the besieged city of Homs, killing dozens of women and newborns. Gamal al-Omar rushes to his laptop to check if his activist friends back home have sent him news or (...)
Local newspapers Thursday devote much attention to the general strike and civil disobedience planned the one-year anniversary of former President Hosni Mubarak's resignation on Saturday. Many political and revolutionary forces have called for civil (...)
Dozens of employees at Maspero, the state TV and radio headquarters, held a protest outside the building on Wednesday. They denounced restrictions placed on them, the lack of free speech and what they described as a “militarized media.”
Employees (...)
Five days after activist Ahmed Doma suddenly disappeared, his family and lawyers finally managed to contact him Tuesday morning in Tora prison. They say that Doma is in good health, despite suffering humiliating treatment at a prison in Tanta during (...)
In his first public appearance after being pardoned from his two-year prison sentence, blogger Maikel Nabil said he was drugged before his interrogation and forced to watch torture of other prisoners during his 302 days in jail.
Nabil, first (...)
An Egyptian judge has dismissed all charges against three political activists and a prominent sheikh accused of inciting violence against the military during clashes that took place between protesters and military forces outside the cabinet building (...)
After about a year during which more than 12,000 Egyptians were tried in military courts and activists waged a relentless campaign against military justice for civilians, the ruling military council seems to have dropped the practice. At least for (...)
“The army and the people were never one hand,” is the provocative title of a blogpost by Maikel Nabil, who is now incarcerated in a military prison cell. Nabil is one of a number of Egyptians who have written vividly about being detained by the (...)
After a break of nearly 100 days, the trial of former President Hosni Mubarak, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and six of the regime's top security aides resumes Wednesday. State-owned Al-Ahram leads with the headline: “Surprises in Mubarak (...)