Security forces arrested former MP and member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) Executive Office Farid Ismail in Sharqiya governorate Sunday, Reuters’ Aswat Masriya website reported. Ismail, 56, a leading member of the Brotherhood, was arrested in … read more
A Mansoura fifth-grader, Omar, 11, celebrated his engagement to a third-grade girl, 9, on Thursday night. Parts of the party were documented in a video which has since gone viral on YouTube. Mansoura-based journalist, Tamer El-Mahdy confirmed that the engagement … read more
A curfew imposed by Egypt’s interim government on 14 Egyptian governorates will be from 11pm (instead of 9pm) until 6am starting Saturday evening, state television announced, maintaining that only on Fridays — the traditional protest day — the curfew would … read more
A “terrorist” staged an unsuccessful attack on a container ship passing through the Suez Canal on Saturday, in an attempt to disrupt the flow of ships through the waterway, the head of the Suez Canal Authority Mohab Memish said. The … read more
Reporters Without Borders condemns the raid by the security forces today on the offices of Al-Jazeera’s Egyptian TV channel, Al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr, during which production and broadcasting equipment, including two vans and four cameras, were confiscated. The raid follow a … read more
Egypt’s police put a duck under arrest late Friday as a device was found attached to its feathers, fueling accusations that it might have been used for espionage, Al-Ahram Arabic-language news website reported. According to Al-Ahram’s Arabic site, a fisherman … read more
The Egyptian government sent eight requests for data on 11 individuals, Facebook revealed on Tuesday in its first global report on government requests demanding access to users accounts. The report includes requests submitted by 74 governments governments to the company … read more
Family members of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri were arrested in Nasr City after security forces raided their home on Friday. The police investigation office announced that with the aid of the national security agency they received information regarding the presence … read more
Tamarrod founder Mahmoud Badr said that if security conditions in Egypt do not stabilise soon then he might back Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi if he runs for president. If however, security conditions stabilise, Badr said he would support a … read more
One of al Qaeda-linked most militant affiliates has called on Egyptians to take up arms against their army, saying a bloody crackdown on Islamist protesters showed peaceful methods were futile, according to an Internet statement posted on Saturday. Scores of … read more