The leading candidate in Egypt’s presidential race said that if he was elected he would break with former President Hosni Mubarak’s reliably amenable policies toward Israel. Amr Moussa, the 74-year-old outgoing head of the Arab League, said the former regime’s … read more
Switzerland sent a group of experts to Cairo to help Egyptian authorities secure the return of funds amassed by former President Hosni Mubarak and his associates. The experts are helping Egyptian judicial officials determine whether any of the 410 million … read more
The Egyptian government says it is moving to reopen churches closed under ousted President Hosni Mubarak. The decision follows an escalation of deadly clashes between extremist Salafi Muslims and minority Coptic Christians. The government said it would study the cases … read more
Egyptian protesters have planned another million-man march next Friday, naming the rally as the “Day to Purge the Remnants of Mubarak Regime from Egypt.” Deputy of Egypt’s former Appeals Court Chief on Tuesday called on all Egyptians, including Muslims and … read more
Thousands of Christian protesters on Wednesday blocked the main coastal road in Egypt’s northern city of Alexandria to call for punishing the Muslims involved in the assaults against churches within the past months. Protesters also called for the release of … read more
The Egyptian doctors’ strike started today, May 10, in governmental clinics and hospitals, calling for the improvement of the medical care system in Egypt, despite the refusal of the head of the Doctors’ Syndicate. Initial reports showed that around 90 … read more
The Arab Spring is turning sour for Egypt’s Christian Coptic minority — whose future now seems even bleaker than it was under the deposed President Hosni Mubarak. Rioting Saturday in the Imbaba neighborhood, northwest of downtown Cairo, killed 12 people … read more
They say he dyes his hair no more, jet-black sheen turning white. He lies in a hospital bed. Out of view so long that he seems to have become invisible. But it is his name they want to erase, as … read more
A woman claiming to be Abeer Talaat, the woman whose alleged conversion from Islam to Christianity sparked the violence that started Saturday in Imbaba, appeared on TV for the first time yesterday saying she regretted the events. In a phone … read more
In the aftermath of what distinguished British journalist David Hirst described as “one of the most exemplary, civilised uprisings in history,” Egyptians “feel reborn” and the Arab world again looks upon the ancient nation as the “mother of the world”. … read more