The Central Auditing Organization recommended Wednesday that officials from the Holding Company for Pharmaceuticals be referred to the Public Funds Prosecution for selling certain drugs for less than what they cost. Mohsen Abdel Alim, head of the Health Ministry pharmaceuticals … read more
Many Egyptian viewers were horrified when preacher Hesham al-Ashry recently popped up on primetime television to say women must cover up for their own protection and advocated the introduction of religious police. That an obscure preacher could get publicity for … read more
“These arrests and this harassment obviously call into question the sincerity of the new government in Egypt” It has only been a few weeks since the people of Egypt approved their constitution, drafted on the banks of the Nile, expressing … read more
Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb will meet with Iran’s foreign minister in Cairo on Thursday afternoon. State-run news agency MENA reported Tuesday that Tayyeb and Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi would review the latest developments in the Arab and … read more
The Jihad Organization has called on supporters of Salafi leader Hazem Salah Abu Ismail to again protest outside Media Production City during celebrations for the 25 January revolution’s anniversary, in order to purge the media of former Mubarak regime remnants. … read more
Unknown assailants attacked the Arab League headquarters in downtown Cairo late Tuesday evening, state-run media reported. Al-Ahram newspaper said on its website that two individuals hurled Molotov cocktails at a building, setting one window ablaze, and then ran away. The … read more
The Nour Party’s general assembly is to convene Wednesday morning to elect a new chairman and supreme committee, among other posts, in the wake of mass resignations by leading figures, who have opted to form a rival Salafist party. The … read more
The two daughters of Tawiq Pasha Andraus, a Wafd Party MP under King Farouq, have been killed in their palace in Luxor. Laudy Andraus (79) and Sofi Andraus (82) were found dead in different rooms in the palace on Monday. … read more
A Cairo criminal court on Monday sentenced journalist El-Walid Ismail to one year in prison for attacking Egyptian security personnel during last year’s trial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak. Ismail, a journalist for liberal daily ‘Tahrir,’ was convicted in absentia … read more
Al-Wafd Party’s supreme authority and members of its executive office headed by Dr. al-Sayed al-Badawi meet to discuss the party’s position on its members that did not adhere to the parliamentary run-off poll boycott decision, Wafd headquarters, Dokki, Giza, 8 … read more