Egypt’s tourism sector was doing really badly, so the Muslim Brotherhood regime decided to finish it off. I don’t recall even the Saudis allowing freelance blasphemy arrests. And this is taking place in a country where much of the population … read more
Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court is expected to deliver a ruling Sunday on the suspension of parliamentary elections. The Egyptian State Lawsuit Authority (ESLA) submitted an appeal against the suspension on behalf of the presidency. A second appeal was submitted by … read more
The number of those killed in violence in the Egyptian coastal city of Port Said in late January has reached 48, after a 24-year-old man was pronounced dead on Saturday. Mahmoud Farouk was hit on the head by a teargas … read more
Hundreds of bakery owners stormed the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade building on Qasr al-Ain Street downtown Cairo demanding to meet with the minister Bassem Kamal. Protestors came from several governorates, including Giza, Cairo, Alexandria, Monufiya and Qalyubiya. They … read more
Clashes erupted on Saturday night between protesters and members of the Muslim Brotherhood in front of the group’s headquarters in the eastern Cairo suburb of Moqattam. The clashes were prompted when a group of Brotherhood members attacked protesters spraying graffiti … read more
Egyptian journalists have elected Diaa Rashwan as the new head of Cairo’s Journalists Syndicate on Friday. Rashwan garnered 1280 votes to 1015 for challenger Abdel Mohsen Salama. The elections were held in the Journalists Syndicate in Cairo and its branch … read more
The office of the Assistant to the President of Egypt on foreign relations has issued a statement in English on Friday regarding Egypt’s official position on the yet-to-be-ratified United Nations (UN) declaration on women’s rights, as a part of the … read more
Abdullah Abdel Hamid, a professor at Al-Azhar University and Salafist preacher, described Egyptian government officials as “enemies of God,” following their late statements about eradicating millions of locusts who stormed several of Egypt’s governorates in the last few weeks, Al-Watan … read more
The possibility of armed militias and vigilante groups run by the Muslim Brotherhood and other hard-line Islamist groups has raised the spectre of a possible confrontation between such militias and the military. Already the “power-of-attorney” drive calling on the army … read more
Thousands across the nation took to the streets on Friday to protest against deteriorating economic conditions under the rule of President Mohamed Morsy and the Muslim Brotherhood. In Port Said, around 3,000 Ultras Masrawy staged a march on 23 July … read more