President Morsi

Tunisian President Mohamed Moncef Al-Marzouki has extended an invitation to his Egyptian counterpart, Mohammed Morsi, to take part in the second anniversary celebrations of the Tunisian revolution next month....

A Cairo court has thrown out a lawsuit calling for the abolition of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. The court ruled that the issue is a "matter...

Israeli plans for spying on Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi have been published by the Palestinian news agency Sama. The plans, it is claimed, were prepared by the Mossad and...

A senior Muslim Brotherhood official has been assigned to manage the Gaza free zone portfolio by Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi. Khairat Al-Shater is one of the prime movers behind...

A spokesman for President Morsi has claimed that Egypt has not received any official objections from Israel to the deployment of tanks in Sinai. Speaking to Aljazeera, he stressed...

Reports from the Middle East claim that Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi is facing "frightening" pressure not to open the border with the Gaza Strip and thus end the siege....

Israel's Channel 10 TV station website has quoted Israeli political sources as saying that if the newly-appointed Egyptian army commanders don't work with Israel, then the Israel Defence Forces...

Egypt's former Defence Minister, Field Marshal Tantawi, accused Palestinians from Gaza of committing the recent attack in Sinai in which 16 Egyptian soldiers were killed. This led to a...

The Policy Director at Israel's Ministry of Defence has said that Egypt has complete sovereignty over the Sinai Peninsula and does not need cooperation with the Israelis to crack...

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has condemned the Sinai attack and accused Israel's external intelligence agency, Mossad, of instigating it. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the MB said, "This...

A lawyer acting on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood has asked for government protection after an arson threat to its headquarters and branch offices. Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Maksoud submitted the demand...

A spokesman for the Egypt's President Morsi has denied claims that he received a congratulatory letter from Israeli President Shimon Peres, and that he sent a reply. Dr Yasser...

Diplomatic sources in Egypt have denied Israeli reports promoting a meeting between the President Mohammed Morsi and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that there is "no reason"...

A lawyer acting for the Muslim Brotherhood has described the Supreme Constitutional Court ruling against President Morsi's decision to reconvene the Egyptian parliament as "equivalent to nothing". Abdul-Moneim Abdul-Maqsoud...

Egyptian writer and journalist Saleem Azzouz has described as a "brave decision" President Mohammed Morsi's decree ordering parliament to reconvene in defiance of the Military Council's dissolution order. Azzouz...

Ismail Haniyeh, the elected head of the Palestinian government in Gaza, has said that Israel's concerns over the victory of President Morsi in Egypt is the strongest evidence that...

The chairman of the legal committee of the Freedom and Justice Party in Egypt has said that presidential powers will allow Mohammed Morsi to annul the military decision to...

The newly elected President of Egypt, Dr. Mohammed Morsi, has told the audience at his inauguration ceremony that the state and people will stand with the Palestinians until they...

The leader of the Egyptian Arab Socialist Party has called on President Mohamed Morsi to demand compensation for Egyptians who, it is alleged, were tortured by Israel. Waheed Aloksory said...

Egypt's First Court of Administrative Justice of the State Council, headed by Judge Abdul Majid Al-Mokannan, has blocked President Morsi's plans to hold elections for the new House of...

A Coptic intellectual has described the Egyptian army's removal of President Morsi as a coup d'état and predicted that a counter-coup has to be expected. This, said Rafik Habib,...

American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ended her visit to Israel on Tuesday having delivered a reassuring message to the Israeli leadership from the new Egyptian president. Clinton told...

Recent events in Egypt have polarized more than just Egyptians. Activists around the world have also been divided ever since the mass protests against President Morsi on 30th June....

The comic performance being acted out in Egypt nowadays – also known as Mubarak's trial, or the trial of the century – is actually the play of the century....

With the official death toll continuing to rise and sources within the Muslim Brotherhood estimating that thousands of Egyptians were killed in the massacres at Rabaa Al-Adawiyya and Al-Nahda...

Egypt's independence from British occupation, which officially began in 1882, went through two main phases. The first was the period after the 1919 revolution, leading the British government to...

The widespread impression in the Arab world, and most of the Third World, is that Western intelligence agencies, America's in particular, know everything about our countries, and pull all...

Thirty years after it was signed, the Egypt-Israel peace treaty is the focus of attention in strategic debate in Washington, Tel Aviv and Cairo. The renewed interest arises from...

No one knows how the Egyptian opposition makes decisions or exactly what its leaders want. They apparently decided to remain on the streets while participating in the referendum at...

The desperate opposition groups in Egypt are dragging the country into a new crisis even before it has emerged from the previous one, which appears to be endless. It's...

The past week has seen a lot of media speculation about seven Palestinians who were taken into custody as they tried to enter Egypt and their subsequent release. Was...

A state of anxiety and confusion has taken over the residents of Gaza as the tunnels leading to the Egyptian border have been almost entirely closed off. Humanitarian crises...