The Youth Against Coup Movement, affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood, has announced plans for 15 women’s marches on Tuesday starting from mosques in Cairo and Giza to Mohandessin, Talaat Harb Square and Hegaz Square. The marches, entitled “We Did Not … read more
A Giza prosecutor has ordered the arrest of 139 suspects, who allegedly belong to the Muslim Brotherhood, for raiding a police station in the Giza suburb of Kerdassa and killing its policemen in August. The authorities were able to identify … read more
Apache helicopters hit targets in north Sinai near the Rafah border crossing with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, witnesses said. The army said nine “radical Islamists” were killed on Saturday in north Sinai when it launched an air and ground offensive … read more
Former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq says he will back army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for president in an election expected next year, adding to speculation that the man who led the overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi could become … read more
As Egypt’s “War on Terror” began to take shape a few weeks ago, my thoughts drifted to a young Brazilian man called Jean Charles de Menezes and the choices that were made in the UK a few years ago. But … read more
Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism is taking steps to promote the tourism sector both domestically and internationally, said Mahmoud Shukri of the ministry’s tourism promotion office. The ministry has partnered with Ministry of Civil Aviation affiliates such as Egypt Air, Egypt … read more
Surveying Egypt’s political landscape, you might be excused for thinking that women are a minority. Only five members of the Committee of 50 tasked with revising the constitution are women. Unsurprisingly, this 10% ratio falls far short of the true … read more
A joint committee formed by Egypt’s Illicit Gains Authority – the Public Funds Investigation and Administrative Control Authority – has started to examine the financial disclosure of Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi, his wife and children, in order to make … read more
Forty-six percent of Egyptians said the curfew, imposed since 14 August, has negatively affected their income, revealed a poll conducted by Baseera, the Egyptian Centre for Public Opinion Research. A curfew was imposed in 14 Egyptian governorates when the interim … read more
Former liberal-leaning presidential candidate Amr Moussa has been elected ٍas head of Egypt’s 50-strong constitution-drafting committee. Both Moussa – a former foreign minister – and chairman of the Syndicate of Lawyers and the Arab Nasserist Party Sameh Ashour announced they … read more