A group of Islamists surround the Abu Maqar Church in Shubra al-Kheima on Monday in an attempt to stop construction on the church’s annex, claiming that the building is not licensed, said sources from the Qalyubiya security department. Security forces … read more
Three Salafist figures have announced their resignation from an Islamist coalition organisation in protest at what they described as the group’s “hostility” towards Salafists. The Islamic Legitmate Entity for Rights and Reform, an Islamists’ umbrella group, was established in 2011 … read more
A hot air balloon crashed near the Egyptian town of Luxor on Tuesday, killing 19 tourists who were aboard, a spokesman for companies that operate balloon flights in the area told Reuters. Ahmed Aboud added that one tourist and the … read more
In the weeks after a group of men surrounded and sexually assaulted her in Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square, Yasmine Faithi has returned repeatedly to the place where the nearly hour long attack began. She’s retraced her steps from where the … read more
A protest is scheduled to take place Sunday at 6pm in front of the Arab League headquarters in Cairo near Tahrir Square to express solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike and to denounce the “unjust practices” of the Israeli … read more
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) will win a majority of seats in upcoming parliamentary elections, the party’s media advisor predicts. In an interview with the pan-Arab Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper on Sunday, Mourad Ali turned the tables on … read more
The administrator of a website close to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday denied “in no uncertain terms” a statement attributed to his website suggesting that President Mohamed Morsi had upbraided Defence Minister Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi following a statement made by the … read more
Shura Council and Muslim Brotherhood member Gamal Heshmat filed a request with Shura Council Speaker Ahmed Fahmy to discuss what he described as continuing cases of abduction and torture over the past six months. Heshmat said in his request, that … read more
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is to be interviewed on Sunday by renowned Mehwar TV presenter Amr El-Leithy, according to a statement released on the presidency’s online media outlets. It is not clear, however, if the interview will be aired live. … read more
Egyptian prosecutors ordered controversial Islamist preacher Abu-Islam Ahmed Abdullah to be held in detention for four days detention pending investigation into an accusation of insulting Coptic Christian women on his TV show. The office of the prosecutor-general has begun investigating … read more