The family home of prominent Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas was raided and searched by plainclothes police while the activist was attending a bloggers' conference in Beirut, both Abbas and his mother said Sunday.
Abbas first made a name for himself...
Cairo saw the launch of a regional United Nations initiative Monday aimed at helping governments around the word curtail the use and trafficking of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by "non-state actors."...
The confiscation by State Security this week of a recently-deceased judge’s personal diaries and court documents has reignited debate about Egypt's "Grand Jihad Case," the historic trial that followed the 1981 assassination of late...
Conflicting reports as to whether or not the Interior Minister has banned family visits to prisoners on the first and second day of the Eid el-Adha holiday have emerged recently, with families and a human rights center affiliated with the Muslim...
Since last Wednesday, the sets of most television talks shows were covered in Egyptian flags. And the colors red, white and black became painfully dominant in the hosts and guests' dress code. It all seemed like Egypt was about to declare a military...
Local press coverage of Egypt's decisive World Cup qualifying match with Algeria on Wednesday night -- which ended in a victory for the latter -- focused largely on clashes between rival fans and resultant injuries on both sides.
Instead of...
Quranist writer Abdel Latif Said was banned from leaving the country and detained for questioning at the Cairo International Airport, his wife and lawyer said on Wednesday.
According to Mrs. Abdel Latif, her husband was preparing to travel to Sudan...
El Koshary Today, "Egypt's most reliable news source" and the newest kid on the block in non-commercial news, has just proved with "concrete evidence" that prayers to God work. An exclusive interview with a respected, albeit...
A report released Tuesday by London-based rights watchdog Amnesty International (AI) urged the Egyptian government to take "immediate and inclusive steps" to protect residents of slum areas situated in the hills of Cairo's Muqattam...
At the National Democratic Party’s annual congress and in the meetings that followed, Gamal Mubarak worked hard to portray himself as one of the people – extending a hand to the poor and needy, trumping up the “golden age of the...