Alaa Abd El Fattah, outspoken software tecchie, blogger and political activist, has spoken to the media for the first time since he began serving his latest sentence at Tora Prison.…
Dar al-Ifta, Egypt's official religious institution tasked with drafting edicts, held an international conference on Monday to confront the “chaos of fatwas” which, according to the institution have become a…
Hala Shukrallah's resignation as leader of the Dostour Party may signal the end of a series of conflicts and schisms inside the party, or it may signal the beginning of…
A session to review the detention of photojournalist Shawkan, scheduled for Monday, was cancelled, and his case referred to the criminal court…
The bloody dispersal of the Rabea al-Adaweya and Nahda Square sit-ins two years ago marked a decisive ending to the Muslim Brotherhood’s political ascendancy. Since more than 1,000 people were…
Two years after the bloody dispersal of the Rabea al-Adaweya protest camp that claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people in August 2013, the Egyptian state insists on one…
Egyptian online collaborative learning platform Tahrir Academy declared in a statement this week that it is halting its activities due to limited financial resources. Registered as a NGO, the organization…
In a statement on Wednesday, the Health Ministry announced that 70 people had died over the past few days due to the country’s current heat wave, with 158 others suffering…
In the past two months, at least five people died in police custody after being arrested on politically related charges. Four of the detainees belonged to the conservative Jama’a al-Islamiya…
Thousands of public sector workers took to the streets on Monday in protest against the civil service law issued in March, which they say negatively impacts up to 7 million…
Local newspapers on Sunday were full of news that US politicians had finally seen the light and showered praise upon President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, following the opening of the new…
In celebration of the New Suez Canal's official opening, the government has declared Thursday an official holiday, with many Egyptians taking to the streets on Wednesday night and Thursday morning to participate…
Wednesday’s newspapers were full of headlines about a report by Forbes allegedly celebrating the New Suez Canal project. The state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper, independently owned Al-Masry al-Youm and Al-Watan, among…
On the eve of the highly anticipated and hyped celebration of the inauguration of the New Suez Canal on Thursday, some have chosen to join the party and others have…
On Monday, the State Council rejected amendments requested by the Lawyers Syndicate regarding a law governing their practice, including a proposed article that prohibits the searching, arrest or detention of lawyers…
With both celebratory commentary and reporting on the staunch security plan surrounding the inauguration of the Suez Canal on August 6, the nation's new megaproject is simultaneously a site for…
Residents of the Maspero Triangle could not imagine the impact the attack on the Italian Consulate on Galaa Street on July 11 would have on their lives. Aside from the…
Families have criticized the government’s delayed response to the sinking of a small cruise boat on the Nile after it collided with a barge near the Giza district of Warraq, resulting…
A number of documents from the Saudi Foreign Ministry that were recently released by Wikileaks have cast light on Egypt's capricious relationship with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which has swung…
Having been a police officer, a prosecutor and a judge for three decades, Geneina warns: “The most dangerous matter here is the use of the law as a weapon to…
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