One would not automatically think about the people of Egypt when I refer to beggars; the Egyptian people who are sleeping on the streets and are unable to find...

Since July 3 last year, i.e. since the brutal coup was staged in Egypt, the chorus of corrupt journalists who were walking in Mubarak and his two sons’ procession...

A report by the Central Bank said the total external and internal debt has risen to 1,708 trillion Egyptian pounds, with nearly 200 billion Egyptian pounds in annual interest...

The board of the Tunisian Constituent Assembly yesterday approved a new law to win over the revolutions’ youth, victims and the wounded, by cancelling the trials and prosecutions against...

A number of Tunisian citizens have filed a lawsuit against their country President Moncef Marzouki accusing him of describing Tunisians as “ignorant”, AFP reported a Tunisian judicial source as...

An Egyptian court on Monday postponed until 16 June an appeal against the decision by the Court of Urgent Matters that it lacked jurisdiction to rule in a lawsuit...

Egyptian comedian and TV satirist Bassem Youssef said Monday his show has been cancelled, citing pressures faced by the Saudi-owned MBC group to suspend his show. According to producers...

Two Egyptian university students have disappeared since Sunday after being abducted by police and tortured in a central security camp in Zagazig, spokesman of a student group said. According...

An Egyptian criminal court in Al-Minya that sentenced to death 37 Islamists and handed life terms to 492 others defended its verdict, saying the men were “demons” who followed...

The Supreme Prison Strike Committee published a list of 60 police officers and security officials in 12 Egyptian governorates allegedly complicit in the torturing of political detainees since the...

The Egyptian Presidential Elections Commission said Sunday it rejected an appeal filed by presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi in which he cited irregularities that marred the electoral process. Judicial sources...

Whatever the numbers are that are being broadcast about voter turnout percentages in the current presidential elections, one must bear in mind that the number of people going to...

Amr Moussa, the former foreign minister who currently heads the advisory board of Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi’s presidential campaign, issued a press statement on Sunday saying that, “the door is...

The technical committee tasked with providing evidence against jailed Al Jazeera correspondents has failed to submit any evidence that proves Al Jazeera coverage on Egypt was fabricated, the Doha-based...

The EU made a “political” decision to re-instate its election monitoring team in Egypt, despite conditions which fell well below international norms for observing elections, the Middle East Eye...

Fresh allegations have emerged about the links between Tony Blair and his former spin doctor Alistair Campbell, and the post-coup Egyptian military regime. According to a report in The...

This is Dr Mabrouka al-Werfalli’s timely offering for readers to gain a better understanding of Libya’s complex political, social and economic milieu in the wake of the 2011 revolution....

In the second part of his interview with the Egyptian newspaper, Al Masry Al Youm, the leader of Libya’s failed coup General Khalifa Haftar said he would welcome Egyptian...

General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Dr Mohamed Badie said that the nationwide boycott of the 2014 presidential elections proves that the Egyptian people has “insisted on providing a...

Almasry Alyoum daily newspaper published an article written by the well-known playwright Ali Salem in which he calls on the Egyptian police apparatus to form special militias to carry...

Morocco’s King Mohamed VI has called for the establishment of “a large, strong and capable” Arab Maghreb Federation. In a speech before the Tunisian National Constituent Assembly on Saturday,...

The interim Libyan government, led by Abdullah Al-Thunni, said in a statement on Saturday that “the Libyan people represent the only legitimacy in the country, and only addresses those...

The United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will provide Egypt with up to $20 billion in a new aid package to be negotiated following the inauguration...

Ambassador Mirvat Tilawi, Chair of the National Council for Women, on Saturday expelled an European Union observers delegation for submitting a report criticising the presidential elections and citing cases...

Former Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Zvi Mazel said on Saturday that the elected Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi is expected to face many difficulties in reviving Egypt’s economy, General...

Former leader of the Libyan ground forces and current renegade General Khalifa Haftar said that he had never met Egyptian coup leader Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi, but he is to follow...

Tunisia and Morocco signed 23 agreements on Friday in a number of fields. These included cooperation agreements in the fields of security, development, industry, technology, scientific research, education, health...

An Egyptian state-owned TV channel broadcast an interview with one official at a polling station who said that the number of voters exceeded the actual number of eligible voters...

Participants in the Tunisian national dialogue announced on Friday an agreement to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on separate dates. The political parties represented in the Tunisian constituent assembly...

The electoral campaign of presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi demanded the exclusion of the votes cast on the third day of elections, citing electoral fraud. In a statement Friday, the...

Vice president of the Shura Council of the Egyptian Islamic Group (Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya) Osama Hafez said that Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi‘s statements on the role of Islam in politics “aim...

The British idiom “pig in a poke” could aptly be used to describe the state of the latest Egyptian election. It comes from the Middle Ages when dodgy butchers...