Egypt

A senior official at the Egyptian Federation for Private Aviation told Anadolu news agency that the losses in the private aviation sector in Egypt over the past year amounted...

Dahab Hamdy, an 18 year old Egyptian girl, was randomly arrested on January 14 on charges of taking part in a demonstration. Dahab had been pregnant (in her 8th...

Egypt's Defence Minister Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi appeared wearing a black jacket with a red star during his visit to Russia earlier this week. The jacket was a...

Egyptian satirist Bassem Yusuf and the director of MBC Egypt channel which airs his show are to be investigated on charges of "insulting the armed forces, President Adly Mansour...

The military coup in the Egypt will come to an end soon and judges who support coup leaders in cracking down on activists should rethink their alliances, a statement...

Egypt's GDP growth rate dropped to one per cent during the first quarter of the fiscal year 2013-2014 compared with 2.5 per cent during the same period of the...

The Egyptian army funded many Egyptian political parties and youth coalition groups in order to stand against the Muslim Brotherhood in the elections, Egyptian security expert and researcher Sameh...

Sinawi YouTube channel shared a video entitled "Watch the response of the people of Sinai in the wake of the leaking of Al-Sisi's remarks on the area". The video...

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) rejects European Union "interference" in "the management of the transitional phase" in Egypt, it said in a statement issued on Monday. The...

Iran is a priority for Egyptian foreign policy and cannot be overlooked; the Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy said. In an interview with Al-Seyasa Al-Dawleya magazine, Fahmy said that...

The military-backed Egyptian authorities have set up a huge iron gate at one of the entrances to Tahrir Square, an oppressive measure the public views as violating the freedom...

The former head of Egypt's Military Council and his deputy left public life "quietly", it has been claimed, in order to keep the army strong in the face of...

The UK-based Arab Organisation for Human Rights (AOHR) reported that 12 female students have been assaulted and sexually harassed while in provisional detention in December 2013. Families of the...

The deputy leader of Egypt's Al-Wassat Party has alleged that he has been tortured for 16 consecutive days during his detention by the authorities. Essam Sultan told a court...

Egypt should set appropriate prices for the use of communications cables that run through the country and benefit instead of letting cables pass free of charge, a communications expert...

This week the trial of 20 journalists resumed in Egypt. They stand accused of joining or aiding a terrorist group, namely the Muslim Brotherhood, which is being broadly oppressed...

The judges, who passed death sentences upon 529 Egyptian citizens in the case of the murdered police officer, passed the death sentence upon the whole Egyptian judiciary system, the...

I have three comments on the statement made by Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in which he announced his intention to run for presidency and I hope people accept...

The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) won the Egyptian parliamentary and presidential elections in 2012, alarming Israel and western countries. The Egyptian army and the liberal classes too were scared because...

When it comes to the potential loss of 528 Egyptian lives without a fair trial and sufficient evidence, we can say that we are standing in the midst of...

The military coup in Egypt in July 2013 was predicated on three deceptively simple arguments: Mohamed Morsi's year in office was a disaster; the people demanded his removal; the...

The Egyptian government is cultivating the events and Israel is immediately reaping the benefits. As soon as the Court of Urgent Matters in Cairo decided to ban Hamas activities,...

President Mohamed Morsi made a speech right before June 30, the day he stood before the people in one of the greatest appearances made by any politician in the...

One of the main reasons for the eruption of the 2011 revolution in Egypt was the people's rejection of Israel's control over the Hosni Mubarak government, particularly the police,...

Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, has emphasised in her frequent statements on Egypt the importance of maintaining stability and of following a democratic path. But in the...

For quite some time we have been fighting for the people's right to know what is going on in the country yet we have recently discovered that we possess...

Amongst those who were in favour of the Egyptian revolution there is general agreement that what happened last year was a military coup in every sense of the word....

Al-Ahram reveals behind the scenes information on the dispersal of Rabaa and Al-Nahda sit-ins, the lost opportunity for the Muslim Brotherhood and El-Baradei's agreement with Bishr. After renewed talk...

I read a story in Egypt's Al-Akhbar newspaper last month which suggested that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) had sent brigades led by the "Mujahid" Ahmed Jabari to...

While the most problematic issue facing post-revolution authorities in Egypt and Tunisia has been the economy, besides the deep state and foreign conspiracy, the situation is very different in...

It is cruel and very painful to hear news of deposed President Mohammed Morsi, who begged his lawyer, Mohamed Salim Al-Awa, for "a bit of money" just so he...

Recording the conversation that took place between Dr Mohamed Morsi and his lawyer Dr Mohamed Selim Al-Awa is a crime against the law, constitution, and judicial norms. It is...