Egypt

After a busy and shaky first day, elections in Helwan flowed smoothly on the second. Voters in this working-class industrial…

The Journalists Syndicate reported the detention of journalists Mustafa al-Shimy and Tawfik Shabaan two days ago by a police officer…

The high election committee delivered more than 5000 ballot boxes to polling stations around Egypt, as available boxes were filled…

  A shipment of anti-riot material imported by the Interior Ministry from the United States was released upon orders, a…

Fayoum’s Zad Mosafer, known among Egyptian writers as a refuge for the mind and soul, reaped mixed reviews on the…

Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri plans to choose a civilian as minister of civil aviation, he said on Tuesday. Ganzouri is…

Police arrested two monitors overseeing the voting process on Tuesday, before releasing them after a short time, said a rights…

With the hashtag “EgyElections,” much of Monday’s Twitter coverage focused on Egypt’s first parliamentary elections post-Hosni Mubarak. The week’s build-up…

As millions headed to cast their votes in Monday’s parliamentary elections, protesters in Tahrir Square – the epicenter of the…

Some polling stations in the Nile Delta governorate of Kafr al-Sheikh opened four hours late, as supervisors did not show…