Video footage is circulating online of an Egyptian student who threw himself from the top of Cairo Tower over the weekend. Nader Mohamed, 20, was an engineering student at...

The head of Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh is expected to leave the Gaza Strip on Monday on a foreign tour to several Arab countries as well as Russia,...

Egypt’s Grand Imam of Al- Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb said the country’s largest religious establishment is subjected to an unprecedented campaign of persecution and media blockade by the country’s...

Egyptian security forces have arrested the famous businessman and former intelligence officer, Yasser Selim, who has been known as a ‘media emperor’ after buying several famous channels and mass...

Throughout the history of the Egyptian press, newspapers have been filled with many major journalists from various approaches and backgrounds, such as Abbas Mahmoud Al-Aqqad, Ibrahim Al-Mazini, Tawfik Diab,...

Three journalists arrested in a café in Cairo have been charged with disseminating false news and joining a banned group. Solafa Magdi, her husband Hossam Al-Sayyad and Mohamed Salah,...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi will appoint a navy commander as his vice president in a role that has not been occupied since 2013, according to a report published...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday appointed 16 new provisional governors and 23 deputies, including the governors of the coastal cities of Alexandria and Marsa Matrouh. Local media reported...

Official sources yesterday reported that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was involved in the recent tensions flared at the Egyptian intelligence. France’s Intelligence Online recently reported that the Crown...

An Egyptian military court sentenced top Islamist militant suspect Hisham al-Ashmawy to death on Wednesday after convicting him of orchestrating several high-profile attacks, the armed forces said, Reuters reports....

Almost half of the mothers in Gaza feel they are unable to make long-term plans and pressure their children to give up their plans to continue their education in...

After 167 days of forcible disappearance housing researcher Ibrahim Ezz-Eldin has appeared in the Supreme State Security Prosecution. Ezz-Eldin was kidnapped by plain clothes police officers on 12 June...

Egypt is misusing counter-terror legislation to prosecute critics of the regime, according to a 60-page report released by Amnesty International. “In Egypt today the Supreme State Security Prosecution ...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday called on Egypt to respect freedom of the press, days after Egyptian security forces raided the office of independent news website...

Egyptian Minister of Public Business Sector, Hisham Tawfik, yesterday said that his ministry would change the zoning of 182 plots of industrial land owned by public sector companies and...

A Coptic activist was arrested by Egyptian security forces this weekend as part of the government’s ongoing crackdown on members of the opposition. Ramy Kamel was arrested in the...

Egyptian activist Ahmed Said has written a Facebook post detailing how the National Security Agency (NSA) is intimidating his family. After threatening to harm his 13-year-old son, the NSA...

The Egyptian army did not have to pay tax or customs on products entering the country which made it impossible for other businesses to compete

Egypt President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has reappointed his son’s father-in-law and old friend, Lieutenant General Mahmoud Hijazi, to work on a number of political and strategic files including restructuring...

The Cairo Criminal Court on Monday ordered the execution of seven people convicted of killing eight police officers three years ago. The court also sentenced three to 15 years...

 The European Union (EU) said on Sunday that there was a “decline” in media freedom in Egypt, calling on the local authorities “to enable journalists to work without fear.”...

Egypt supports the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, Egyptian foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, said yesterday. “The Egyptian government supports the establishment of a...

There has never been a more dangerous time to be a journalist than in the 21st century because the simple act of telling the truth can cost you your...

Germany on Monday slammed the Egyptian government for a police raid on the offices of the country’s last major independent media outlet and the brief detention of several journalists,...

Leaked documents dubbed the “China cables” have revealed details of how the country runs its high-security prison camps for Uyghurs in Xinjiang province. China has long come under criticism...

Sisi and his backers say these measures are needed to keep Egypt stable and to counter threats from Islamists

While the popular uprisings in Lebanon, Iraq, and Algeria continue despite no tangible change on the ground, this represents hope amid the darkness in which the nation has been...

Turkey has issued a red notice for exiled Palestinian MP and dismissed Fatah leader, Mohammed Dahlan, over his role in the failed coup attempt in July, Turkish media reported...

Egyptian whistleblower Mohamed Ali told MEMO that he built the part of the intelligence headquarters where the cyber army was housed

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s son Mahmoud is being assigned a long-term position in Moscow due to his failure to handle the media and the storm over Egyptian whistleblower...

The United States is working with Egypt to deter it from going ahead with a deal to buy Russian warplanes, threatening the Cairo government with sanctions if it does,...

Accusations of enforced disappearances are like a “broken record”, Egyptian Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Omar Marwan, said yesterday. Speaking at a press conference, Marwan stressed that there was “no evidence”...