Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf on Tuesday reopened a church in the Cairo neighborhood of Imbaba that was burnt in religious clashes last month. Sharaf attended the opening of the Coptic church alongside the interior and local development ministers, as … read more
Egypt’s transitional government won’t end human rights abuses until it lifts emergency rule and ends military trials, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. The New York-based organization also demanded in a report that the government investigate allegations of virginity testing and … read more
The Egyptian revolution that swept Hosni Mubarak from power threatens to hobble the real-estate developers that profited from their ties to the former president. Talaat Moustafa Group (TMGH) and Palm Hills Developments SAE, the biggest publicly traded builders by assets, … read more
This Tueday, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood became a legal political party for the first time since President Gamal Abdel Nasser banned it more than half-a-century ago. The military officers managing Egypt’s transition out of the Age of Mubarak approved the Brotherhood’s … read more
An official from the Egypt Gas Holding Company told Ahram Online Wednesday that gas is being pumped again from Egypt to Israel and Jordan after the pipelines were fixed. The pipelines have been bombed three times since the revolution. Conspiracy … read more
Egypt’s military rulers have promised that women in custody will not be subjected to virginity tests in future, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. An apparent admission by a general last month in an interview with CNN that some female protesters … read more
The Gaza Strip’s border crossing with Egypt reopened on Wednesday after a four-day closure caused by a dispute between Cairo and Gaza’s Hamas rulers over travel arrangements, officials said. Witnesses said a bus carrying 60 Palestinians crossed into Egypt from … read more
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Hundreds of Egyptians walked in silence Monday evening as the sun set over this Mediterranean city to commemorate the anniversary of a beating death that helped spark the country’s revolution. These Alexandria streets over the past year have been the … read more
Nearly 1,000 angry Egyptians have disrupted the railway service between Cairo and Upper Egypt since Sunday to protest against installation of a mobile relay station, the National Railway Authority spokesman said on Monday. Residents of el-Ayat village in Giza staged … read more