In the weeks after a group of men surrounded and sexually assaulted her in Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square, Yasmine Faithi has returned repeatedly to the place where the nearly hour long attack began. She’s retraced her steps from where the … read more
A protest is scheduled to take place Sunday at 6pm in front of the Arab League headquarters in Cairo near Tahrir Square to express solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike and to denounce the “unjust practices” of the Israeli … read more
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) will win a majority of seats in upcoming parliamentary elections, the party’s media advisor predicts. In an interview with the pan-Arab Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper on Sunday, Mourad Ali turned the tables on … read more
The administrator of a website close to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday denied “in no uncertain terms” a statement attributed to his website suggesting that President Mohamed Morsi had upbraided Defence Minister Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi following a statement made by the … read more
Shura Council and Muslim Brotherhood member Gamal Heshmat filed a request with Shura Council Speaker Ahmed Fahmy to discuss what he described as continuing cases of abduction and torture over the past six months. Heshmat said in his request, that … read more
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is to be interviewed on Sunday by renowned Mehwar TV presenter Amr El-Leithy, according to a statement released on the presidency’s online media outlets. It is not clear, however, if the interview will be aired live. … read more
Egyptian prosecutors ordered controversial Islamist preacher Abu-Islam Ahmed Abdullah to be held in detention for four days detention pending investigation into an accusation of insulting Coptic Christian women on his TV show. The office of the prosecutor-general has begun investigating … read more
Egypt’s parliamentary elections, previously scheduled to begin on 27 April, have been brought forward to start on 22 April, according to a statement issued by the presidency’s online media outlets late Saturday amid calls for boycott. The decision came after … read more
Leader of the Constitution Party and founding member of the National Salvation Front (NSF) Mohamed ElBaradei called on Egyptians Saturday to boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections. “I called for a parliamentary elections boycott in 2010 to expose sham democracy. Today, … read more
Protestors in Tahrir continue to block all entrances to the square in the hub of Cairo, despite police efforts to open it for traffic, while calm is restored at Egypt’s presidential palace after Friday’s anti-government demonstrations. Tahrir protesters placed metal … read more