CAIRO - Liberal, secular, and leftist activists yesterday launched into a tirade of accusations against the Islamist forces (the Muslim Brotherhood and the ultra-conservative Salafists) that enjoy a parliamentary majority, describing these forces as (...)
CAIRO - In the early hours of morning, tens of thousands of Christians started converging on Saint Mark's Orthodox Cathedral in el-Abbasiya, where they joined the long queue outside the Cathedral, in order to pay their last respects to Pope Shenouda (...)
CAIRO - A large poster with a photo of potential presidential candidate Amr Moussa on it dominates the façade of a small building in a street in the Giza neighbourhood of el-Haram.
On the opposite side of the street, another large poster with a (...)
CAIRO - A fact-finding commission blamed policemen for the deadly violence that happened following a soccer match in the Mediterranean City of Port Said on February 1, saying they facilitated the violence by standing idly by, while armed Al-Masry (...)
CAIRO - The US expressed interest in backing the Egyptian economy and offering to help Egyptian manufacturers and exporters benefit from special import programmes in the United States.
Addressing attendees at a meeting in Cairo of the American (...)
CAIRO - An independent initiative to speed up the presidential vote, scheduled for June next year, is being met with opposition from the Advisory Council, a group of experts who assist the ruling military council in dealing with civilian matters and (...)
CAIRO - In what were probably the first austerity measures to be taken inside the Government offices, Chairman of the Egyptian Stock Exchange Mohamed Imran on Tuesday decided to slash the salaries of his employees – senior ones in particular – in (...)
CAIRO - Egypt's Higher Election Commission, a group of judges who monitor the parliamentary vote, on Sunday warned against the use of religious propaganda in the second round of the parliamentary elections, which will be held in nine governorates on (...)
CAIRO - Curtains fell down on runoff ballots in nine governorates late on Tuesday to bring to a full end the first round of Egypt's first post-revolution parliamentary polls, which saw the nation's Islamists leading with more than 60 per cent of the (...)
CAIRO - Egypt's first post-revolution first round runoff polls started on Monday, amid hopes, by Islamist powers to maintain their lead, vociferous attempts by liberal candidates to prove that they are not an easy nut to crack, and noticeable lack (...)
CAIRO - Egypt's Islamists (the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and the ultra-conservative Salafist Al-Nour Party) have managed to snatch 60 per cent of the seats for political parties in the first round of the parliamentary polls that (...)
CAIRO - Thousands of lawyers arrived at the Bar Association in central Cairo from the early hours of the morning to cast their ballots in the association's first post-revolution board elections, amid feelings of joy, optimism, and extreme rivalry (...)
CAIRO - The gap between the nation's Islamists on one hand and the interim government and the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on the other hand seems to be widening, in the wake of the Islamists expressing strong reservations about a (...)
CAIRO - The Electoral Commission, a committee of judges who will oversee the next parliamentary vote, gave on Tuesday the go-ahead signal for electoral campaigns to start on Wednesday, opening the way for a race for Egypt's first post-Mubarak (...)
CAIRO - In a strong show of dissatisfaction Monday, thousands of members of the police force staged nationwide demonstrations to demand higher salaries and shorter work hours, taking their protests to the Ministry of the Interior in the centre of (...)
CAIRO - A showdown between lawyers and judges over a new Judicial Authority bill is getting more intense a short time after hundreds of lawyers announced an open-ended strike, bringing work in some of the nation's courts to a halt.
The lawyers (...)
CAIRO - The ruling military council introduced to the Penal Code Egypt's first explicit anti-discrimination article, a long-awaited measure that seeks to preempt all forms of discrimination.
The new article imposes heavy penalties, amounting to (...)
CAIRO - Egypt was in mourning mood, a few hours after bloody clashes between hundreds of Christian protesters and military police outside the State TV Building on the Nile Corniche left 25 soldiers and protesters dead and more than 200 injured.
TV (...)
CAIRO - The last time the Press Syndicate held its board elections about three years ago, Mahmoud Maqlad only watched passively.
The syndicate is now going to hold polls on October 14 and this time Maqlad, a 32-year-old reporter with the private (...)
CAIRO - The nation's Coptic Christians were angry a few hours after military police used force to end a Coptic sit-in outside the TV Building late on Tuesday.
They were protesting against repeated attacks on Christian churches and their inability to (...)
CAIRO - The phones never stop ringing at the Arab Medical Association. On a desk inside one of the rooms at the association sits the head of the Humanitarian Section, Ibrahim el-Zaafarani, giving callers the details of the bank account they should (...)
CAIRO - Mixed reactions greeted a plan agreed jointly between a group of political parties and the ruling military council on Saturday for suspending the controversial Emergency Law, stopping military trials for civilians and allowing party (...)
CAIRO - More than 30 international experts and women's rights activists appealed for Egypt's women to be given greater scope on the country's political stage, for the elimination of gender stereotypes, and for erasing inequalities in education, (...)
CAIRO - The sudden emergence of Defence Minister Mohamed Hussein Tantawi in central Cairo on Monday, dressed, unusually, in civilian clothes, seems to have stirred up a hornets' nest.
Activists and writers have linked the civilian clothes Tantawi (...)
CAIRO - Members of Jama'a Islamiya – deemed to be Egypt's most fundamental Islamist organisation – looked defiant and insistent, a few hours after a special judicial committee refused to license their new Development and Construction Party.
The (...)