A high-level Egyptian court has ordered the dissolution of Egypt’s former ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), fulfilling a central demand of the protest movement that ousted the country’s former president in February. But reports of the NDP’s death may be … read more
More than two months after the Egyptian revolution that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed fears that the new government in Egypt is becoming ‘anti-Israel.’ Addressing a gathering of European Union ambassadors in East … read more
An Egyptian court has ordered the dissolution of the country’s former ruling party led by ousted President Hosni Mubarak, and the confiscation of its assets. The move, which indicate that the military are working towards meeting the demands of the … read more
Former President Hosni Mubarak has been transferred to a military hospital near Cairo from the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, the Egyptian Ahram newspaper reported on its website Saturday. Mubarak was taken by a military helicopter to the International … read more
A leading activist in Egypt’s pro-democracy uprising warned the country’s stalled economy posed a risk to its new political freedoms and he called for more help from the international community. Wael Ghonim, a Google executive who emerged as a figurehead … read more
The first shock for the sons of Egypt’s former president when they arrived at Cairo’s notorious Tora prison, looking dazed according to witnesses, was having their mobile phones taken away. Then guards thrust rough regulation uniforms into their soft, manicured … read more
Even as the United States poured billions of dollars into foreign military programs and anti-terrorism campaigns, a small core of American government-financed organizations were promoting uprising in the name of democracy in authoritarian Arab states. Michael Simon, who worked on … read more
Thousands of conservative Muslims protested in the southern Egyptian province of Qina Friday against the appointment of a new Christian governor. Witnesses said the protesters, mostly observers of the conservative Islamic Salafist movement, threatened to bar Emad Mikhail, the new … read more
Egypt’s ex-president Hosni Mubarak, detained pending a probe into corruption and state violence, may be jailed or hanged if found guilty of ordering the killing of demonstrators, state media said Friday. The state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram quoted the head of Cairo’s … read more
Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a Saudi newspaper owner and his aide in Cairo then released them two days later after they paid a ransom of Egyptian £130,000 ($26,000), a newspaper in the Gulf kingdom reported on Saturday. Ali Al Hazmi, owner … read more