The website of Egypt’s only independent English-language daily newspaper, Daily News Egypt, was taken off the web Sunday and the editorial staff had to clear their offices and pack up seven years of sweat and dedication after they were...
The list of candidates for Egypt’s next president was finalized on Tuesday evening when the Presidential Elections Commission (PEC) announced that the appeals against disqualification of 10 potential candidates, including several possible...
Ahmed Ezzat is on the phone talking about the recent case he has been working on. “The students are planning for another fight regarding their university’s bylaws and we should advocate for that in the coming press conference,” he...
Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members flocked to the streets on Friday in mass marches in the name of "protecting the revolution." They were the first large-scale political protests the capitol has seen in months, after other...
When Omar Suleiman, former spy chief and vice president under ousted President Hosni Mubarak, appeared for 30 seconds on 11 February 2011 to announce Mubarak’s resignation, many thought that it was the end of his career and an era. But just...
The scene of Omar Suleiman, Mubarak’s former intelligence chief, being escorted into the Presidential Elections Commission headquarters with the protection of military police on Sunday sent shock waves through both the revolutionaries who...
Three political parties in Parliament, composed of some former members of Hosni Mubarak’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), intend to support Omar Suleiman, former head of the General Intelligence Services and former vice president, in...
The echoes of the decision of the Muslim Brotherhood and its Freedom and Justice Party to field Khairat al-Shater in the presidential election are still resonating loudly in local newspapers’ pages. Most are filled with reactions and analysis...
Tuesday’s meeting between Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi and political party leaders has made it to the front pages of local newspapers on Wednesday as part of the ongoing crisis between secular parties and Islamist forces on the structure of...
Relations between Islamists and secular political forces are at a low point since the latter withdrew their members from the assembly tasked with writing Egypt’s new constitution, calling the forthcoming document’s legitimacy into...