Cairo News

Campaign fever is in the air in Cairo and around Egypt. Millions of voters go to the polls, Tuesday and Wednesday, for what many believe to be the country's first free election in its long history.

Egyptian rapper El Deeb's song, "Stand Up Egyptian," a rallying cry to continue the protests against Mubarak's regime was sung by crowds in Tahrir Square.

Presidential candidate, Khaled Ali speaks in front of a banner with Arabic that reads, "no to torture after the revolution," in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, May 20, 2012.

Defying centuries of deeply ingrained traditions about a woman's place took more courage than the speeches and epithets mouthed by generations of feminists.

At the American Friends of Rabin Medical Center's April 26 luncheon, held at the restaurant Fifteen Central Park West, guest speaker Lucette Lagnado recalled an Egypt where "Jews, Muslims and Christians lived side by side until 1953." She explained, "There was once a vigorous 80,000-strong Jewish community between Cairo and Alexandria; what is left ... (more)

Two media rights groups condemned the Egyptian army for assaulting and arresting journalists who were covering a recent violent crackdown on antimilitary protests in Cairo.

After stirring an outcry for her article in Foreign Policy magazine, Egyptian-American columnist Mona Eltahawy on Tuesday night offered a vigorous defense of her views that the real Middle East revolution is yet to come, between men and women.

State Police arrested five people in connection with a stabbing at a house party in Greenville on Saturday.

Saudi Arabia is considering Egypt's request to restore diplomatic ties after the kingdom recalled its ambassador over the weekend.