Egyptian authorities have frozen the assets of 1,345 members of the Muslim Brotherhood over the past 18 months, an Egyptian official said Thursday. Ezzat Khamis, the head of a...

Former Middle East Peace Envoy Tony Blair has met with the Head of Hamas Political Bureau Khalid Meshaal in Doha, Qatar, for the second time in less than six...

The Kuwaiti Embassy in Cairo has called on Kuwaiti nationals, including students and tourists, to comply with the Egyptian government’s regulations on foreign currency transactions. The embassy said in...

Morocco has achieved a $533 million surplus in its budget, the Ministry of Economy and Finance announced, after recording a deficit of $14.45 million last year. Observers believe the...

Tomislav Salopek was kidnapped three weeks ago as he travelled in Egypt, about 14 miles west of Cairo. The Croatian national was working as a surveyor for a French...

The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) on Tuesday summoned the Libyan military attaché in Khartoum in protest against the Tobruk government’s supporting and arming of rebels from the Sudan Liberation...

Former Tunisian President Moncef Al-Marzouki did not stray too far from the truth when he said that the dreams of the Arab Spring have gone unheeded. There is no...

Egyptian authorities are preparing to expand a buffer zone along Egypt’s border with the blockaded Gaza Strip. In October, Egypt began to establish a buffer zone in North Sinai’s...

Out of context, all concepts and issues find themselves under the mercy of the dim-witted and exploiters. As the old saying goes, the more things change, the more they...

Amid the silence of the dawn and the noise of the car’s cassette player, my friend and I sat in the front seats that morning, waiting for the sun...

In the age of easyJet, Ryanair, AirBnB and TripAdvisor, why does the news media still devote so little attention to international news? Unprecedented numbers of British tourists are now...

The head of Tunisia’s Union of Agriculture and Fishing Abdelmajid Zar said on Tuesday that there has been a significant decrease in the amount of agricultural produce required by...

Turkey will continue fighting PKK militants “until not one single terrorist remains”, Felesteen newspaper quoted the country’s president as saying. Reporting AFP, Felesteen reported that Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s pledge...

Below is the full text of a cross-party statement issued by the Egyptian opposition on the anniversary of the Rabia massacre. The second anniversary of Rabia massacre has arrived...

Palestinian Authority (PA), Fatah and PLO President Mahmoud Abbas has refused to hold a PLO leadership meeting anywhere but in Ramallah, informed political sources told Palestinian newspaper Al-Resalah yesterday....

Five senior Israeli officials arrived in Cairo yesterday and spend several hours meeting their Egyptian counterparts before returning to Tel Aviv, the Anadolu Agency reported. Egyptian security sources told...

Egyptian Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Wali ordered the dissolution of ten NGOs with links to the Muslim Brotherhood and the suspension of the administrations of 29 others, Quds...

Today marks the UN World Day against Human Trafficking. This modern-day slavery spins an estimated $32-billion industry worldwide, exploiting 20.9 million global trafficking victims, 1.2 million of whom are...

The Egyptian committee tasked with confiscating and managing the funds of the Muslim Brotherhood has decided to seize 16 hospitals allegedly owned by the movement.< The hospitals sieged were:...

Some 21 people have died in Egypt and a further 66 were admitted to hospital on Sunday following the effects of heatstroke and dehydration caused by the increased temperatures...

In what is already a celebration of legendary proportions, upon which tens of billions of dollars were spent despite a massive national budget deficit, Egypt’s new Viceroy, Abdel Fattah...

As many as 264 detainees in Egyptian prisons are reported to have died due to medical negligence since the ousting of President Mohamed Morsi in 2013, the Arab Organisation...

Sheikh Rashid Ghannouchi has denied reports that he took part in an event during Ramadan hosted by a cousin of Jordan’s King Abdullah as part of a plan to...

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Ibrahim Munir denied reports published in Egyptian and Arab newspapers yesterday alleging that he was chosen as the group’s deputy supreme guide and acting supreme guide....

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood (MB) yesterday mourned the death of the prominent Egyptian figure from the Islamic Groups (Al-Jamaa Al-Islamia) Essam Darbala who died in prison, Alamatonline.net reported. In a...

Strange how intellectual discussion concerning the so-called “Arab Spring” has almost entirely shifted in recent years – from one concerning freedom, justice, democracy and rights in general, into a...

Hijab debates are on the rise, yet again, in Egypt. As usual, they are initiated by the ruling class who are provoking a national debate for profit. Businesses in...

The Central Bank of Egypt has revealed that the ministry of finance borrowed 7.5 billion Egyptian pounds (around $970 million) in treasury bills on Sunday to cover the budget...

A leading member of Egypt’s outlawed Gamaa Islamiya group has died in prison amid a spate of recent deaths among jailed opponents of the country’s ruling regime. In a...

Egypt’s Foreign Ministry has rejected an offer by Qatar to mediate between Cairo and the Muslim Brotherhood, which the Egyptian authorities designated a “terrorist organisation” in late 2013. On...

Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s ousted and imprisoned president, hinted on Saturday that he had been subject to a poisoning attempt by prison officials. During court proceedings, Morsi – democratically elected...

Inside a filthy police van near Al-Azhar University an officer points to a fragment of light shining through a tiny opening: “See this bit of sun?” he asks Amena...