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The failure of Abdel Moneim al-Shahat, a prominent leader and the official spokesperson for the Salafi movement in Alexandria, to win a seat in parliament, has caused anger among Egypt’s Salafis, who accuse the more moderate Muslim Brotherhood...
Newly-appointed Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri defended himself and his cabinet in a press conference Friday, describing those who reject both as “a very small minority.”
Protesters in Tahrir Square and at a sit-in outside the cabinet...
The Egyptian Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) said Friday it has agreed with the Nile Trading and Engineering Company to carry out maintenance work on certain Honda vehicles in Egypt, following Honda's announcement that these models have a...
The budget of Egypt's armed forces should be monitored by the people through a representative parliament, presidential hopeful Mohamed ElBaradei said Thursday evening on a talk show on the Egyptian CBC television channel.
ElBaradei pointed out...
Statements by Major General Mokhtar al-Mulla, a member of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), that the upcoming parliament will not be representative of all Egyptians, have infuriated the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and...
Democracy is heresy because it contradicts the principle of allegiance that was used after the death of prophet Mohamed, whereby people choose their caliph once and then remain loyal to him, said the Salafi Nour Party at a rally in Giza.
The party...
Egypt’s new Interior Minister, Mohamed Ibrahim, on Thursday pledged not to use violence or tear gas to disperse sit-ins and demonstrations.
“The Interior Ministry will not throw another canister on a protestor to disperse protests and...
The Islamist parties have started preparing for the second phase of parliamentary elections. “We have already started campaigning,” said Wahid Abdel Meguid, general coordinator of the Democratic Coalition, which is led by the Brotherhood...
The ongoing sit-in by a number of protesters outside the cabinet will not affect the government’s work, said Gouda Abdel Khalek, minister of food supply and internal commerce, on Thursday.
In a press statement on Thursday, Abdel Khalek said...
Judge Mahmoud al-Khodairy, a Democratic Alliance figure who won the professional seat of Alexandria's second district, will most likely be nominated to head parliament, said a source within the Democratic Alliance, which is led by the Muslim...
