Digging deep down beneath Syrians' memories of pain, Syrian writer Khaled Khalifa does not fear approaching one of the most sensitive and bloodiest events in the modern history of Syria.
He believes a writer should be harsh; his job is not to rest (...)
CAIRO: Muslim lawyer Ali today submitted a request to the ruling Egyptian military council urging the release of 15 Islamic leaders sentenced to execution in various cases, some of whom were convicted in the Asyut incident and the “Albania” (...)
The chairman of Wasat Party, Aboul Ela Mady, said most political parties have expressed their refusal of Kamal al-Ganzouri's recent appointment as prime minister. The refusals came during a meeting which between Egypt's ruling military council and (...)
Prominent Egyptian writer Alaa al-Aswany coordinated between revolutionary powers to form a “national salvation government,” rejecting the ruling military's appointment of Kamal el-Ganzouri to the premiership.
Revolutionary groups ended a meeting (...)
CAIRO: The National Salvation Government, only created yesterday, formed an advisory council on Saturday, said well informed sources.
The council will be chaired by Mohamed el-Baradei and will include two of the presidential candidates Abdel (...)
CAIRO: The repercussions of peaceful protesters being killed in recent events at Tahrir Square will be discussed at a conference between a number of political powers and presidential candidates on Wednesday, November 23.
Potential presidential (...)
Ahmed Omar Abdel Rahman, the son of the detained Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, died today in an air raid in Afghanistan, Spokesman of the Islamic Gama'a Islamiyya Mohamed Hassan told Youm7.
Gama'a Islamiyya offered its condolences to the Sheikh's (...)
Vice President of the Freedom and Justice Party Essam al-Erian received a number of Egyptian investors to identify the political and economic trends of the first political entity of the formerly banned Muslim Brotherhood (MB).
Al-Erian stressed (...)
Mohammed Morsi, chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party, and Dr. Mohamed Saad Katatni, Secretary-General of the party, met Saudi Arabia's ambassador in Cairo Monday, who stressed the Kingdoms' intent to strengthen relations between the two (...)
CAIRO: Six presidential candidates held a meeting Wednesday regarding reforming the laws governing parliamentary elections, and other political issues.
In the first such meeting for presidential candidates, Hamdeen Sabbahi, Abdel Moneim Aboul (...)
CAIRO: Giza security forces tightened security measures to protect the Giza security headquarters from any potential attack late Friday night. The move came after hundreds of demonstrators left the Israeli Embassy and headed toward the security (...)
The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) today condemned the unrest Egypt has witnessed over the last day and urged the rapid transfer from military council rule to civil authority rule.
The Brotherhood stressed the importance of sticking to a (...)
Secretary-General of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) Saad Katani today praised the Turkish decision to deport the Israeli ambassador over the 2010 flotilla incident on the “Marmara” ship headed for the Gaza Strip.
Israel refused to apologize (...)
The head of Al-Nour Party, Emad Abdel Ghafoor, announced the withdrawal of the Salafi political entity from the Democratic Coalition for Egypt.
He told Youm7 the party will not participate in the unified electoral list prepared by the coalition, (...)
The Wasat Party will be permitted by security services to hold sohour in Cairo's Matareya's square, according to the deputy president of the party, Essam Sultan.
Previously Sultan told Youm7 that Brigadier General Rabea el-Sawy, of el-Matareya's (...)
CAIRO: A lawyer for former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he will ask the judge during Mubarak's next trial hearing to refuse any new civil requests regarding the case.
Yossri abdel-Razek, one of Mubarak's lawyers, said he will offer a (...)
CAIRO: This Friday's demonstration dubbed,” The Friday of Loving Egypt,” was condemned today by Gamaa al-Islamiyya (GA) as an Iranian-led attempt to institute Shiite doctrine in Egypt.
Members of GA refused to participate in the million-man (...)
CAIRO: Youm7 exclusively obtained the full text of investigations wtih the former head of the dissolved State Security Investigation (SSI), Hassan Abdel Rahman.
Abdel Rahman was chairman of SSI for seven years, during which economic, financial, (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood will host its first public Iftar tomorrow at City Stars Hotel in Nasr City. The group is scheduled to meet for the fast-breaking meal without security or measures or restrictions in place.
There will also be a special (...)
CAIRO: Two unidentified young men threw two Molotov cocktails inside the Arab League headquarters this morning. The headquarters are located at the edge of Cairo's Tahrir Square.
The two bottles landed inside the building and burst into flames (...)
The trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, his two sons Alaa and Gamal, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and his top six security chiefs is getting mixed reactions from Egyptian political forces.
“The Mubarak trial assures (...)
The Islamic Group today announced its support of the security siege on Tahrir Square yesterday, on the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, said Assem Abdel-Magid, the Group's spokesman. He added that the sit-in violated Egyptian law and (...)
There is no relationship between the Shura Council of the Islamic Group and the organization responsible for the publication calling for an Islamic state in Sinai, distributed earlier this week, said Safwat Abdel-Ghany, a member of the Shura (...)
CAIRO: A judicial source revealed that former president Hosni Mubarak may miss his first trial if he is sick, and in this case his lawyer will attend and reveal his excuse of absence.
According to the source, the first session is not that (...)
Former Arab League Secretary-General and potential presidential candidate Amr Moussa visited the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Freedom and Justice Party.
“I came to congratulate the new party for being founded, and I should not ask for the (...)