Two people died during clashes in Cairo’s Shubra district on Monday night. The violence broke out after Saad Dorra, 15, was killed during a football match at a school in Shubra, a working class district of the Egyptian capital. The … read more
Around two thousand people have protested in Upper Egypt against the alleged kidnapping and forced conversion to Christianity of a Muslim woman. Protesters gathered in Al-Wasti in Beni Suef governorate on Tuesday to condemn what they claimed was the kidnapping … read more
Hundreds of veterinarians stormed the Ministry of Agriculture in Cairo Tuesday and staged a sit-in, demanding the appointment of a veterinarian as deputy minister of agriculture. The protesters said they would meet with the minister to resolve disputes between the … read more
Police arrested prominent Salafi leader Gamal Saber on Tuesday in connection with a deadly family feud in Shubra district that left three people dead. According to reports, members of the Assal and Saber families have been exchanging gunfire and Molotov … read more
Egyptian police have arrested a close aide and cousin of former Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi in Cairo’s Zamalek. Police, in coordination with INTERPOL, surrounded the residence of Gadhaf Al-Dam early on Tuesday morning. Al-Dam was holed up behind iron-barred doors … read more
Max Weber defined the state as an agency which successfully claims a “monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. The Egyptian state has used plenty of violence over the past couple of years, in the lead-up to and the aftermath … read more
Last week, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood issued a strongly-worded statement unabashedly rejecting the draft UN declaration calling for an end to all forms of violence against women. It claims that the declaration contravenes Egypt’s “cultural specificity” and would lead to “the … read more
Egypt’s Emergency State Security Criminal Court has halted trial in the “Zeitoun cell” case referring it to the general prosecution. Twenty-five people were accused of adopting an armed jihadist ideology and committing an armed robbery at a jeweller’s shop in … read more
The Justice Ministry is drafting a new law to guarantee accountability for the president. “The committee assigned by Justice Ministry to draft the law is currently considering laws that hold presidents accountable in other countries to select the best models, … read more
In the second such incident in as many days, hundreds of residents of Mahallah Ziad village in Egypt’s northern Gharbiya governorate on Monday surrounded a police station in an attempt to capture and publicly execute a man charged with kidnapping … read more