The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb slammed on Tuesday what he described as calls for allowing homosexuality as a human right, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported. “The calls to allow homosexuality as a human right are blatant and … read more
Egyptian squash players Ali Farag and Nour al-Tayeb were simultaneously crowned the men’s and women’s 2017 US Open titles for the first time, beating fellow Egyptians Mohamed El-Shorbagy and Raneem El-Welily on Sunday. World fourth ranked, Farag needed 49 minutes … read more
Egypt’s agricultural exports rose 13.9 percent during the first nine months of 2017, reaching 4.1 million tonnes compared to 3.6 million last year, agriculture ministry spokesman Hamid Abdel Dayim said on Sunday. Egypt’s agricultural exporters have seen a surge in … read more
Egyptian veiled TV anchor Doaa Farouk recently faced a massive wave of attacks on social media, following an appearance in a burkini during an episode of her TV program ‘Haytna,’ broadcasted through privately-run TV channel Al-Nahar. Farouk appeared in the burkini … read more
Egypt’s interior ministry announced on Thursday evening the arrest of a man supsected of the killing of one priest and injuring another in a northeastern suburb of Cairo earlier that day. According to a statement released by the ministry, security … read more
Haram Misdemeanor Court sentenced four members of the gay community to three years in prison on Saturday, each on charges of committing acts “inconsistent with public morality and homosexuality,” that fall under Egypt’s ‘debauchery law’, inside a residential apartment in Hadayeq … read more
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi along with the Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, Defense Minister Sidqi Sobhy, Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouly and Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces Mahmoud Hegazy inaugurated the first phase of the new Administrative Capital on … read more
The information ministers of Egypt, Bahrain, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia are set to hold talks about their ongoing diplomatic boycott of Qatar in Manama on 25 October, state agency MENA reported on Tuesday. In statements to the agency, the … read more
Egyptian lawyer and human rights activist, Mohamed Zaree, has been awarded the most prestigious awards granted to human rights defenders, the Martin Ennals award. However he was unable to accept the prize in person as Egypt banned him from travel … read more
Rights activist groups on Monday condemned the crackdown of the Interior Ministry against the LGBT community, after several young people were arrested for holding up rainbow flags during a concert featuring Lebanese Indie rock band Mashrou Leila last month. In … read more