Hundreds of thousands of activists returned to Cairo's Tahrir Square on Monday night to protest supplementary constitutional amendments issued by...
CATEGORY: Egypt
New TV advertisements play on fears of foreigners in Egypt
In recent days a series of controversial public service announcements aired on state-owned TV channels in Egypt, angering Egyptians and foreigners...
Egyptian activists in shock over election results
Egyptians reacted in shock and despair after official results of the first round of Egypt’s first multi-candidate presidential elections were...
Voters flock to polls in Egypt’s first multi-candidate election
Fifteen months after Hosni Mubarak ’s ouster, this week Egyptians headed to the ballot box to choose a new President in the country's first...
Prominent Egyptian talk show host resigns
A "farewell note" from prominent Egyptian journalist and popular talk show host Yosri Fouda, posted on his Facebook wall and published in Al Badeel...
New regime, same propaganda
As Egypt prepares for presidential elections in less than two weeks’ time, the country is on the brink of chaos. Tensions have been brewing for more...
New wave of violence threatens Egyptian presidential elections
Violent clashes between protesters staging a sit-in outside the Defence Ministry Headquarters in Cairo’s Abbasseya district and unknown assailants...
Egyptians demand release of lawyer jailed in Saudi Arabia for insulting monarch
The detention of an Egyptian human rights lawyer shortly after his arrival in Saudi Arabia last week to perform Umrah (or lesser pilgrimage) has...
Thousands gather in Tahrir Square to protest military rule
Tens of thousands of protesters returned to Cairo's Tahrir Square in a massive demonstration Friday demanding that the ruling military generals...
Egypt’s ministry of education censors young people’s political debate
Egypt's secretary of education has instructed educational institutions to prohibit students from engaging in political activities. The prohibition...