Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood torched a police vehicle on Friday in al-Zaytoun, a district in eastern Cairo, the state-run Middle East News Agency said. The National Coalition for Supporting Legitimacy has urged its supporters to stage week-long rallies starting … read more
A new report by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research has shed some light on how Muslim women should cover up. Looking at surveys from seven predominately Muslim countries the researchers found that most respondents thought women should … read more
Two opinion columns on Egypt were published this week which could usually safely be ignored but taken together present a nice example of opposite ends of the bullshit spectrum of writing on this country. The first column was published in the Wall Street … read more
Ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, said in a television interview broadcast on Thursday that he would run for president if the army chief does not contest elections. “I believe now I will run for the … read more
Egypt’s financial watchdog has approved new insurance rules for travel agencies in a bid to improve trust following a spate of accidents involving tourists in recent years. Sobhi Shehata, the Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority’s media spokesman, told Ahram Online on … read more
A recent poll by the Center for Information and Decision Support said that 87.6 percent of those who intend to participate in the referendum will vote for the new draft constitution, a 5 percent increase from an earlier survey. More … read more
The National Coalition for Supporting Legitimacy has called on its supporters to rally every day during the next week to fail the referendum. Voting on the newly-drafted constitution is expected to take place on 14 and 15 January inside Egypt. read more
Egyptian airport authorities have arrested an Egyptian-born American who belongs to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood on charges of taking part in violence against the state, security sources said on Thursday. The man, identified as 47-year-old Khaled Mahmoud Migahid, is accused … read more
The Egyptian authorities have completed the investigation into the case of two Czechs, a mother and her daughter, who died of poisoning in the Egyptian seaside resort of Hurghada in July 2013, Czech Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Johana Grohova confirmed to … read more
Ayman Nahed, a member of the defense team team in the presidential palace case, says he doesn not expect deposed President Mohamed Morsy to attend the third session of his trial on 1 February or the first session of the … read more