Standing on the corner of the street, the queue of women waiting outside the Gamal Abdel Nasser School's doors to vote seemed to have no end. But the enthusiastic women didn't seem to mind.
The women were divided into two lines, one for those (...)
The United States Embassy in Cairo announced in a tweet from their official twitter username, @USEmbassyCairo, the donation of $100,000 to Egypt for humanitarian assistance for violence victims.
The embassy tweeted: Amb. Patterson: "American (...)
Standing outside the tent where he spends his nights in Tahrir Square, the young activist looked around him, carefully scanning the place that had served as his home for the past week.
Signs reading “Down with the military,” listing protesters' (...)
The long promised lustration law, which disenfranchises former leading of the former ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) and bans them from running for public office, was finally issued on Monday.
The lustration law, passed by the ruling (...)
The crowd cleared the way for a group of demonstrators carrying an elderly man choking on tear gas to the centre of Tahrir Square.
Two young doctors in scrubs and white coats helped lower the injured man onto the dirt and grass filled area in the (...)
Approximately 50 demonstrators continued an ongoing sit-in on Wednesday next to Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square to protest continued military rule in Egypt and demand implementation of longstanding revolutionary demands.
The group, which describes (...)
Employees of the embattled petrochemical factory MOPCO in Damietta, state information centre workers blast PM Sharaf government in two separate demos staged outside Cabinet building in Cairo
As Damietta residents wrapped up their seventh day of (...)
Thousands of mid-ranking policemen in Cairo, the Delta and Upper Egypt vow to maintain strike action until demands are met, setting a deadline of Wednesday before they leave their posts to the army
A strike waged by thousands of mid-ranking police (...)
Female workers in Egypt's agriculture sector will have their voices heard after a group of women from the Imbaba district's Werdan village formed the first union for women farmers in Egypt this week.
The Egyptian agriculture sector employs (...)
More than 10,000 lower-ranking policemen from across Egypt demonstrated outside the Ministry of Interior in central Cairo, calling for the minister to resign and threatening to initiate an open ended strike until their demands are met. Should this (...)
After much delay and confusion, the new "Revolution Continues Alliance" has announced their parliamentary elections platform, one day short of the extended candidacy registration deadline.
The newly formed alliance consists of the Socialist (...)
Libyan exiles cheer long-awaited downfall of dictator; 'I've always prayed that God would let me live long enough to see the day Gaddafi fell', says celebrating Libyan forced to flee Gaddafi regime
The death of Muammar Gaddafi, marking the end of (...)
Instead of being granted his long-awaited freedom following a retrial on Tuesday, Maikel Nabil's lawyer said the C28 military court had ordered the weak and frail activist be sent to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation.
The outcome of Tuesday's (...)
Jailed blogger, Maikel Nabil was once again not present at his trial today - but this time it was his purposeful choice in order to send a strong message.
The detained blogger's younger brother, Mark, says Maikel refuses to participate in the (...)
A day ahead of the retrial of Maikel Nabil in a military court, his younger brother, Mark, has expressed his fear that the detained blogger will die in prison. He said that Maikel threatened to commit suicide if he is not released from prison.
“Now (...)
Activists plan on denouncing the violence and force used to break up last Sunday's peaceful Coptic march with a demonstration today following Friday prayer.
Protesters are to march from Al-Azhar Mosque, located in central Cairo, to Abbassiya (...)
After discussing Sunday's deadly clashes in Cairo's Maspero district, which left at least 25 dead and hundreds injured, post-revolution political forces on Wednesday called on the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to relinquish (...)
The retrial date for detained blogger Maikel Nabil, accused of "insulting” Egypt's armed forces, has been set for Tuesday, 18 October, at Cairo's infamous C28 military court.
On Tuesday, a military appellate court revoked an earlier three-year jail (...)
Maikel Nabil's retrial date is to be determined today.
The blogger's three-year jail sentence was overturned Tuesday after a militarly appellate court ruled that the young activist be retried. He faces accusations of "insulting the (...)
After 50 days of hunger strike, a military appeals court has revoked the three-year jail sentence of blogger Maikel Nabil and ordered that the young and now frail activist face a retrial.
A date, however, is yet to be set for the activist to (...)
Egyptian bloggers and activists mourned the loss of a fellow revolutionary who was killed during Sunday's Maspero clashes between demonstrators and army and security forces.
Hundreds of Egyptians who had never met Mina Daniel – or, in many cases, (...)
Dozens of members of the “Free Maikel” group on Tuesday waited outside the Cairo military court in which detained blogger Maikel Nabil's sentence is being appealed and where activist Sahar Maher is currently standing trial.
Activists chanted slogans (...)
After a night of violence between demonstrators, the army and security forces, families and friends of the dead come together at Cairo's Coptic Hospital to prepare for a funerary march to Abbasseya Cathedral
Central Security Forces and police filled (...)
As Maikel Nabil's postponed trial date approaches, family and supporters are more worried than ever about the young blogger's deteriorating health. They held a press conference on Sunday at the Hisham Mubarak Law Centre to express their (...)
Ahram Online finds out that despite repeated denials that the interior ministry used snipers against protesters, its website includes information about sniper training programmes for Central Security officers
The question of whether the interior (...)