Hundreds of activists demonstrated in front of the Alexandria governorate headquarters against the Muslim Brotherhood on Friday, days after the governor had openly accused the Brotherhood of seeking to control the governorate. Governor Mohamed Abass had earlier this week said … read more
Scores of residents beat to death the son of a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm Friday in Zagazig city in Egypt’s Nile Delta Sharqiya governorate, which has seen a significant number of mob killings recently. Security sources told … read more
More than two years after the Egyptian uprising, the country’s new Islamist government has struggled to confront a drop in tourism and the faltering economy. But the leadership has remained silent about another crucial indicator that has surged to a … read more
The Egyptian government’s failure to revive the country’s ailing economy is likely to be a defining issue in parliamentary elections expected to begin in October. The umbrella opposition group, the National Salvation Front, has heaped criticism on President Mohammed Morsi’s … read more
A prosecutor has ordered the release of Khaled Mansour, a member of the team behind Egypt’s most-watched satirical show, on L.E. 5,000 bail ($720). Egypt’s prosecutor-general had ordered the interrogation of Khaled Mansour to question him over a segment titled … read more
Initial lab results have revealed that dirty cutlery was behind Monday’s second mass poisoning in Al-Azhar University in Cairo, which left 180 students hospitalised. According to Ahmed Hosny, deputy head of the Al-Azhar University, the food poisoning resulted from dirty … read more
“I stopped watching television. Now I watch cartoons with my children, movies and religious sermons only,” said Qutb Sayed, 40, a driver who lives with his wife and four children in a small one-room flat in Cairo’s industrial city of … read more
A US embassy car crashed in the 6th of October district of Cairo, injuring three, including the military attache who was driving the vehicle, and killing the driver of the other car. The corpse and the injured were transferred to … read more
Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court’s State Commissioners Authority on Thursday ordered that President Mohamed Morsi’s son and daughter attend the hearing on a lawsuit demanding the revocation of their US citizenship. This comes as part of a lawsuit filed in 2012 … read more
Egypt’s cabinet reshuffle will see six ministers replaced, Al-Ahram Arabic news website has reported, citing a government source. President Morsi had intended to replace ten ministers, the source added, but the number was trimmed to six because he could not … read more