Tamarod (Rebel) movement has announced its solidarity with satirist Bassem Youssef whose episode was stopped by the CBC channel from going on air on Friday, said the group’s founder, Mahmoud Badr. Badr sasked in a post on his official Facebook … read more
Egypt’s railways authority announced a state of emergency on Friday in anticipation of escalating Muslim Brotherhood protests ahead of ousted president Mohamed Morsi’s first appearance in court. Morsi’s trial is due to begin on 4 November. Railways authority head Hussein … read more
The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, that groups supporters of ousted President Mohamed Mursi, has called for demonstrations this Monday to express its frustration with putting the deposed president on trial. The criminal court will begin on Monday the trial … read more
Security officials in Egypt say a fight between two families sparked by a dispute in a queue to buy bread has killed nine people. The officials said Saturday the feud began a month earlier in a town in the southern … read more
Egypt’s Minister of Higher Education Hossam Eissa announced Saturday that the curfew will be lifted on 14 November, reported Al-Ahram’s Arabic news website. Earlier in October, the interim government announced that the state of emergency would end on 14 November, … read more
Egyptian authorities Saturday launched a nationwide search for a French woman reported missing when she failed to catch a connecting flight the day after she arrived in Cairo, officials told AFP. The 25-year-old arrived in Cairo from Ghana on Thursday … read more
Allies of deposed President Mohamed mursi marched on Friday from Cairo’s Nasr City to the military intelligence headquarters in Masr al-Gedida, the Middle East News Agency reported. Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood’s supporters held banners carrying the Rabaa symbol and … read more
Bassem Youssef left Cairo International Airport on Friday morning on his way to Abu Dhabi, accompanied by Ahmed Abbas, one of his aides. Youssef reportedly left from the special services lounge. Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm read more
Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef’s show “El-Bernameg” was suspended by host channel CBC minutes before it was due to screen on Friday. The channel announced in a statement read by TV anchor Khairy Ramadan that it had decided to suspend the … read more
Chancellor Rifai Nasrallah, general coordinator of the “Complete Your Favor” campaign, has said that the campaign has so far collected more than 15 million signatures to pleas asking Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to run in the presidential elections. “We … read more