When the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces held a ceremony to hand over power to then newly-elected President Mohamed Morsy on 30 June, Morsy said he would pay the council members back for the ceremony in his own way, and would honor them...
Sporting a smart casual outfit and riding in a convertible, President Mohamed Morsy greeted the audience gathered at the Cairo Stadium to attend the 39-year anniversary of the 1973 October war.
Some 50,000 people were seated in the stadium, several...
Our Armed Forces, with its Ground Forces, Air Force, Navy and Air Defense, played a symphony repeating powerfully and with faith the motto of the Ramadan war: God is great; He put an end to the wrong saying that the Israeli military is...
Seventy-seven former MPs associated with Hosni Mubarak's dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP) have banded together to run in the forthcoming parliamentary elections, and they say that they are attracting more candidates to their cause. Most...
The Free Officers wanted their 1952 coup to go down in history as a revolution of the people, but they had a problem: The people writing the historical record weren’t convinced. Several newspaper editors refused to promote the ideas of the...
"The world listens to Egypt," reads the Freedom and Justice newspaper headline; "Revolutionary speech in the UN," says Al-Shorouk. The front pages of private and state-owned newspapers Thursday all herald President Mohamed Morsy...
In late August, 40-year-old Arafa Kamel set himself on fire outside the presidential palace in Heliopolis after a disagreement with his employers, who disregarded a court verdict reinstating him after his dismissal.
Several newspapers referred to...
DAHSHUR — It could be a Delta village like any other. Tuk tuks, more numerous than cars, drive down rutted dirt roads of fertile soil. Cattle graze on every street corner as little children play hide-and-seek. Central Security conscripts sit...
Ahmed Shafiq, former presidential frontrunner and Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, is back in the headlines. He was referred to criminal court Tuesday on charges related to facilitating the sale of the Kabreet land, an area overlooking the...
On 24 August, the day that saw protesters stage rallies against the Muslim Brotherhood, a video clip posted on YouTube showed a Christian woman named Amal Kamel carrying the Egyptian flag and chanting, “The people want to bring down...