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Today on International Human Rights Day, 13 local and international human rights organisations have called on the Egyptian authorities to acknowledge and investigate thoroughly the killing of up to...

When the head of military justice tried to defend the article in the new Egyptian constitution that allows civilians to be tried before military courts, he included any person...

Strange circumstances led to the appointment of the former president of the Tunisian League and the Arab Commission for Human Rights as the head of the state in post-Arab...

In a recently leaked sound clip of an interview with General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, Egypt's Minister of Defence and current de facto leader, interviewer Yasir Rizk, the Editor-in-Chief of...

A new banner advertising a 'constitution for all Egyptians' depicts an unlikely looking collection of people. Standing in a line, from right to left, is a soldier, a man...

There is no doubt that in all of its modern history Egypt has never been exposed to the chaos, turmoil, polarisation and division which now threaten its social and...

The people of Egypt will be called upon to vote on a new constitution over the next few days. The strange thing about this is that during its final...

By designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a "terrorist organisation" the interim Egyptian government has hammered the final nail in the coffin of any political settlement that could have mended...

The results of a number of security solutions to national and international issues will not last long despite their current effectiveness. While some regimes have managed to suppress their...

What role can the Muslim Brotherhood, with its current ideological standpoint, play in the post-Arab Spring era in Egypt and following the ouster of its political leader Mohamed Morsi...

Aside from the debate over its relative success or failure, the political dialogue in Tunisia marked the end of one turbulent era and the beginning of another, perhaps more...

For some Egyptian politicians to oppose the Muslim Brotherhood and its leaders is expected; for most of the media to be recruited in an attack against the movement is...

When the countdown to the creation of South Sudan began after the 2010 elections, some western sources described the upcoming state of the south as "predetermined to fail". They...

About two weeks ago, Radio 4's BBC World Service broadcast a programme over four episodes on the Arab world in the contemporary era; the second episode was about the...

Human Rights Watch has denounced the Egyptian government's designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a "terrorist" organisation. It has described the move as a means by which the government...

The trial for the deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was postponed until next February 1st due to weather conditions that prevented him from being transferred from his prison in...

On 14h and 15th January the Egyptian military-backed regime held a constitutional referendum in an attempt to bring legitimacy to the political developments that have taken place since the...

Last week, after an evening pasting 'No to the Constitution' posters to walls in Cairo's downtown Garden City, three volunteers from the Strong Egypt party headed to take a...

If the recent decision by General Al-Sisi's coup regime regarding the status of the Muslim Brotherhood says anything about the situation in Egypt, it would be that the continuing...

The international legal team appointed by the Freedom and Justice Party announced yesterday in London that representatives of the "legitimate Egyptian government" have launched an international case against the...

Last Saturday, an Egyptian government fact-finding committee met to discuss the events that took place during the June 30th coup. At the same time, a group of human rights...

I will not argue the power of Colonel Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's popularity, but I will allow myself to argue him being the "necessary" man and that there is no...

Weeks ago I said in a talk that the place of this constitution is underneath the shoes of the new generation. Yet, I did not expect this to happen...

Our brothers in Egypt have the right to dig trenches as they want, build walls as they like, and stick in the ground, to whatever depth they want, reinforced...

The families of the 21 girls from Alexandria who oppose the military coup received the news that 14 of the girls were sentenced to 11 years in prison and...

Events in Egypt this week have been nothing if not fast-moving. On Wednesday, Mohammed Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president in six decades, was overthrown. It has been...

"Many people ask me, how come you like jazz and you're an Arab? And I tell them it's because I'm an Arab" Reem teases, laughing at her own joke....

One of Egypt's leading youth activist movements announced on Monday the death of the transitional roadmap that was proposed in the wake of the military coup against the democratically...

One of Egypt's leading youth activist movements announced on Monday the death of the transitional roadmap that was proposed in the wake of the military coup against the democratically...

Exclusive detailed analyses of two video films of the same alleged incident in Alexandria were published by MEMO on 8 and 9 July. The first analysis of the incident...

A video entitled "MB tortures kids and throws them off buildings" has gripped the attention of Egyptians and others following the unfolding events in Egypt. It has been widely...

The daughter of the deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood has described the moment when her father was arrested by the Egyptian police following the coup last Wednesday. Zahraa...