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Prosecutors have ordered three Coptic men accused of igniting sectarian fighting in Khosous detained four days pending investigation.
The violence that began on 5 April in the Qalyubiya Governorate town claimed seven lives after some...
The famous Valley of the Kings tourist attraction in Luxor reopened Tuesday after a police protest prevented visitors from entering, according to State Television’s website.
Brigadier General Hosni Hussein, a member of the Upper Egypt tourism...
Al-Azhar, the country’s leading Islamic authority, denounced on Tuesday two explosions that rocked the iconic Boston Marathon a day before, killing three and injuring 144 others.
The religious institution stressed that murdering innocents is...
Ihab Fahmy, presidential spokesperson said on Tuesday that Halayeb and Shalateen are part of Egypt, adding that Egypt will never let one grain of sand go.
In a telephone conversation with satellite channel OnTV, he said that such issues should not...
The Foreign Ministry summoned the Canadian charge d’affaires in Cairo on Monday to ask why the Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird had a formal meeting with an Israeli government official in East Jerusalem.
“We told him we were...
The Central Agency for Organization and Administration has issued a report claiming that strikes and sit-ins in Egypt have turned from being a legitimate right of workers to a threat to the economy.
The report, published by the state-run newspaper...
The April 6 Youth Movement-Democratic Front staged a sit-in outside the Shura Council main gate to demand the release of the movement’s members in custody.
In a statement Sunday evening, the movement said the sit-in would continue until...
Circumstances in Egypt will not improve unless Sharia is applied, Jihad Movement Mufti Sayed Imam said.
Imam said the Afghanistan’s Taliban model and Somali Islamic rule are the best systems and most able to protect society from “...
The Egyptian army destroyed a tunnel under construction that had been intended to be used for smuggling cars through the Gaza Strip border, the army said Sunday.
Ahmed Ali, the official Egyptian army spokesperson, said on the official army Facebook...
The liberal Wafd Party said it is considering legal action against Abdel Rahman Ezz, an Islamist activist, accusing him of participating in an attack on the party headquarters in December, Al-Wafd newspaper’s website reported.
Wafd Party...
Opinion articles
Downtown Cairo is once again a battlefield, and this time, the military is not just a silent facilitator, but an active participant — beating, dragging, shooting, and assaulting civilians. The latest round of brutality has led us to not only...
On 24 November, we issued the first edition of our new project, Egypt Independent, a weekly, 24-page newspaper that attempts to unpack Egypt’s complex and dynamic political and cultural landscape. It was not long before we were interrupted....
