The Speaker of the Egyptian Shura Council, parliament's upper house, said on Monday that Bahrain's security is part and parcel of Egypt's national security. Dr Ahmad Fahmy made his...
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News Egypt's ministerial council decided on Tuesday to delete the Muslim Brotherhood from its record of NGOs in Egypt. Last month, an Egyptian administrative court decided to ban the Muslim...
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News The Nasr City Misdemeanour court, headed by Judge Ahmed Thabet, has set 26 October as the date for the second session of the case against Dr Mohamed El-Baradei, former...
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News The Cairo Criminal Court has postponed the trial of Ahmed Shafiq, along with the trials of ten other defendants, to 20 November. Shafiq, the former prime minister who lost...
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News "I have a graduation party I would like to attend." That was 22-year old Rawdah Shalabi's response when she was told of the 11 year and 1 month prison...
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News Egypt's public prosecutor has referred the founder of the 6 April Movement, Ahmed Maher, along with two other activists, for trial on charges that include protesting without permission. This...
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News PHOTOS A prominent Egyptian human rights official; Ahmad Mufreh, has criticised the Sidi Gaber Misdemeanour Court of Appeal's decision to issue a one year suspended sentence against 14 members...
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News In their first public statement after their release from detention, the seven minor members of 7am movement have vowed to continue their anti-coup protests to restore Egypt's legitimacy. The...
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News In defiance of Egypt's anti-protest law which bans demonstrations without police approval; Egypt's policemen have demonstrated in Cairo demanding higher salaries and incentives in an unprecedented incidence since the...
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News The National Alliance against the Coup in Egypt has evaluated the persistence of rebels who have demonstrated despite heavy rain and violent storms. The Alliance described their persistence as...
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News The President of Egypt's Court of Appeals, Judge Mohamed Awad, has said that he will not participate in the judicial supervision of the referendum on the new constitution. He...
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News Founder of the Egyptian Tamarrod campaign, Mohamed Fawzi, has said that defected founders and members of the group are preparing to launch a new anti-military coup movement, Tamarrod 2....
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News A ministerial committee formed by the interim government in Egypt announced on Friday the preliminary list of Muslim Brotherhood figures whose assets have been frozen in accordance with a...
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News Egyptian minister for religious affairs in the coup government, Mohamed Mokhtar Jomaa, has banned the Friday prayer in mosques with an area of less than 80 Sqm in Egypt....
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News VIDEO The coordinator of the Judges for the Sake of Egypt movement, Waleed Shorrabi said on Wednesday that more than 80 per cent of judges in Egypt are against...
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News On Friday the US Administration expressed concern about the latest protest law that puts severe restrictions on demonstrations in Egypt. More than 200 Egyptians have been recently detained in...
January 29, 2014 Prof John Esposito
Like a political tsunami uprisings swept across much of the Arab world, toppling in rapid succession the entrenched autocratic regimes of Zeinul Abedin Ben Ali in Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak...
January 27, 2014 |
Fahmi Huwaidi It was reported in Al-Sabah newspaper that 575 soldiers who worked for Mubarak's security state and were dismissed during the revolution, have been reinstated. I then read of a...
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Article Since ancient times, members of the judiciary have served as the wise, careful, farsighted and impartial arbitrators in litigious disputes. The early Muslim leaders started a trend which no...
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Article January 27, 2014 |
Dr Azmi Bishara 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...
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Article The narrative of the Syrian revolution has been transformed from a story of peaceful protests demanding democracy to a civil war involving all members of Syrian society. In fact,...