The 25 January Revolutionary Youth Coalition has launched a Facebook campaign demanding that presidential elections be held on 25 January, the first anniversary of the start of Egypt's revolution.
The coalition also suggested that the new president (...)
The Cairo Court of Appeal on Thursday accepted a memo submitted by two judges on behalf of the Ministry of Justice disclosing the "secret" bank accounts of 75 Egyptian and foreign civil society organizations, as well as 40 individuals.
The memo said (...)
Popular committees have started to carry piles of garbage from different neighborhoods in Giza in front of the governorate headquarters to pressure the government to deal with its trash problem.
A few months ago, the committees had announced they (...)
Abdel Aziz Hegazi, president of the General Federation of NGOs, said on Monday that he reached an agreement with the American Embassy in Cairo to organize the American funding for NGOs in a way that corresponds with Egypt's priorities.
He said that (...)
Just a few days after the Tunisian uprising forced President Zine al-Abdine Ali from power, Egypt's 25 January revolution sparked. The two revolutions have produced political twins witnessing similar stages at roughly the same time.
After the (...)
Presidential candidate Hisham al-Bastawisy has blamed the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces for last Friday's demonstrations in Tahrir Square, saying that the military council had provoked the mass demonstration by making various decisions that (...)
Prince Talal bin Abdel Aziz al-Saud, head of the Arab Council for Childhood and Development, denied on Wednesday reports that Saudi Arabia supports deposed President Hosni Mubarak.
“Saudi Arabia only supports the good leaders,” he said, adding that (...)
Iran called on Egyptian officials Saturday to muster courage necessary to establish full relations with Tehran and resist opposition by United States and Israel.
“Cairo must make an independent decision to draw the two countries close,” said Iranian (...)
Prime Minister Essam Sharaf met with Farouk al-Baz, director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University, on Tuesday to discuss ways to implement the scientific “development corridor project” proposal for Egypt, which would cost US$24 (...)
Heavy rains drenched Egypt on Sunday with thunderstorms hitting some areas in Sinai.
Ali Qotb, the official spokesman for the Egyptian Meteorological Authority, said the rainfall is expected to continue over much of the country on Monday with (...)
A new law which prohibits the establishment of parties based on religious or geographical grounds has caused conflicting reactions among various political forces in Egypt. On Wednesday, the Egyptian government approved a proposed amendment to Law 40 (...)
Media experts expect Qatar's Al-Jazeera television news channel to review its coverage of Egypt following President Hosni Mubarak's visit to Doha on Wednesday, which aimed at bolstering the troubled relations between the two countries.
“There have (...)
An ancient Egyptian temple to the god Ptah in the village of Meet Rahina near Memphis, just south of Cairo, now sits submerged in sewage.
The temple, which was built during the reign of Pharaoh Ramses II (1279 BC - 1213 BC) and was once a major (...)
Domestic demand for gold and silver has continued to fall as a result of successive jumps in international precious metals prices.
The price of 18-carat gold rose to LE193 per gram this week, while the per-gram price for 21-carat gold currently (...)
Some medical experts have warned that a new strain of the H1N1 virus, otherwise known as 'swine flu,' could reach Egypt after appearing in a number of other countries.
According to immunology professor Dr. Abdel Hadi Mosbah, the virus mutated in (...)