A small pro-Mubarak demonstration in the Mohandesseen suburb of Cairo ended in violence on Friday. Dozens of pro-Mubarak supporters clashed in a huge brawl with anti-Mubarak groups, causing traffic problems and heavily stepped-up security near the famous Moustafa Mahmoud Mosque. … read more
Authorities at Cairo Airport on Thursday detained an Egyptian national suspected of belonging to al Qaeda in Yemen, an airport official said. Rabie Abdullah, who was traveling under a false name, arrived on a flight from Yemen and was stopped … read more
A close associate and business partner of deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was arrested Thursday in Spain where he had fled during Egypt’s recent uprising, according to MENA, the official Egyptian state news agency. Hussein Salem, co-owner of the East … read more
On May 25, 2005, in a nearly empty polling station, Bothaina Kamel cast her vote on the referendum to amend the Egyptian Constitution to allow for the country’s first contested presidential elections. That evening she faced a studio camera, presenting … read more
Thirteen Egyptian political parties have formed the National Coalition for Egypt to run in the upcoming September parliamentary elections, the Ahram newspaper reported on Wednesday. The new coalition was launched at a ceremony at the headquarters of the Wafd Party. … read more
Egypt’s al-Ahram weekly reported Thursday that that Cairo’s prosecution is looking into ways to expedite the legal proceedings against Ilan Grapel, an Israeli detained there on alleged espionage charges. Should such a move be successful, Grapel may face trail within … read more
Egyptians protest in Cairo on May 27, 2011 against the military council’s handling of the post-revolt phase. Cairo The Egyptian military, which has governed the country since the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak, will not field a candidate in … read more
Israel says its diplomats have visited a U.S.-born Israeli who is being held in Egypt on spying charges. Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor says the two members of Israel’s diplomatic mission to Egypt saw Ilan Grapel on Tuesday and found … read more
Some five months after the fall of Mubarak, Egyptians are happier and more relaxed as they go about the day to day mechanisms of life in the capital, Cairo. A new poll, conducted by the Gallup Centre in Abu Dhabi, … read more
I am not the first or the only woman to experience the insult of sexual harassment in Egypt. Neither was Lara Logan, the CBS news reporter who was assaulted and beaten by a group of men while covering the celebration … read more