Fourteen people have been killed and more than 900 injured since clashes flared between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsy early Sunday, according to data from the Ministry of Health and other medical sources. Tensions are hiking as opposition … read more
Forty-six sexual assaults are reported by Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment (OpAntiSH) during the huge protests covered by international media in Tahrir Square that intend to oust Egypt’s President Morsi. “There [were] men with sticks at the entrance of the metro station … read more
Egypt finds itself at a crossroads one year after Muhammad Mursi became the country’s first democratically elected president. Massive protests are taking place across the country calling for Mursi’s exit. During Mursi’s one-year rule, Egypt’s political and economic stability has … read more
There is nothing in the revolutionary rule book to say that, two years after toppling a dictator, a country is entitled to enjoy peace. If post-soviet Russia or post-apartheid South Africa have taught the world anything, it is that democratic … read more
At least two people were killed by gunfire during an attack on the national headquarters of President Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood in a suburb of the capital, medical sources said. Hundreds of people throwing petrol bombs and rocks attacked the … read more
Scores of supporters of President Mohamed Morsy, who are gathering in Rabaa al-Adaweya Square in Nasr City, are heading to the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Moqattam to protect the Guidance Bureau from Morsy’s opponents, who demand his departure … read more
Thousands of members of the Muslim Brotherhood, many wearing hard hats and armed with makeshift clubs, are camped near the presidential palace in anticipation of a battle to defend their ally, President Mohamed Morsi. In three days of protests against … read more
A cloud of gloom, frustration and anxiety has prevailed over Egypt for most of the last two years. Today an anxious sense of anticipation also prevails as a grass roots youth movement has galvanized the public opposition to the president … read more
Key developments in Egypt since Islamist President Mohamed Morsi took the oath one year ago. — 2012 — JUNE – 30: Morsi, elected president with 51.7 percent of the vote, sworn in, becoming Egypt’s first civilian and Islamist ruler. AUGUST … read more
Protesters in Beni Suef city torched the offices of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) early Sunday, hours before mass nationwide anti-regime protests are due to take place. Nasser Saad, the FJP’s media spokesman in Beni Suef, which … read more