Egypt News

Demonstrators take part in a protest marking the first anniversary of Egypt's uprising at Tahrir square in Cairo For those of you who missed it, please find below an excerpt from my piece published in the New York Times Sunday Review A yesterday, February 12, 2012.

A protester shouts slogans during a demonstration against the military rulers of the country on Feb.

An Egyptian parliamentary inquiry into the deaths of 74 people in a soccer stadium disaster has found both fans and lax security to blame for the worst incident of its kind in the country's history, the legislator leading it said on Sunday.

One of the chief instruments of satire is irony: to achieve either requires timing and a touch that is as precise as it is light.

US aid to Egypt is guaranteed by the Camp David Accords and stopping it would be a violation of that treaty, a high-ranking Muslim Brotherhood lawmaker said Sunday.

Amid the talks in Cairo, Egypt, the head of the mission, Sudanese General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al Dabi, resigned from his post, an Arab official said.

A United Nations freelance consultant was fatally shot in the head while driving through an upscale Cairo neighborhood on Sunday, Egyptian security officials said, as concerns persist over a security vacuum blamed on lax policing since the uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak last year.

A campaign of civil disobedience and nationwide strikes failed to take hold in Egypt yesterday, reflecting the diminished ability of the country's fragmented activist movement to pressure the interim government a year after Hosni Mubarak was forced to resign as president.

Harbourfront Centre and Arabesque, in association with Small World Music, present JAMRA, a contemporary production inspired by the dance forms of the nomadic and gypsy peoples of Egypt, Turkey, North Africa, Iran and Lebanon.

Nothing better illustrates America's sliding status in today's Arab world than Egypt's decision to try 16 Americans who work for pro-democracy groups there.

In a crowded, chilly courtroom, attorneys jostled at the judges' bench as lawyer Ali Ahmed Dorgham condemned the defendant for "a crime against humanity." "Making fun of religion is a great corruption on Earth that leads to civil wars," Dorgham said in a loud nasal voice, and the punishment "at the very least should be imprisonment." The accused is ... (more)

American student Aliya Alwi and freelance Australian journalist Austin Mackell were arrested by Egyptian security forces Saturday, Feb.

Egyptians are carrying out a day of disobedience today, marking one year since former president Hosni Mubarak was toppled, with crowds calling for an end to military rule.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal walk with Qatar's emir sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani as they arrive to sign an agreement in Doha on February 6, 2012 .

In a choice between the Constitutions of the United States and South Africa, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gives South Africa home court advantage.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 3, 12:50 p.m. PST -- With some 47 million people living in poverty, 50 million without health insurance, millions jobless and millions more underemployed, President Barak Obama could be less circumspect and more passionate about stimulating our economy.

Prosecutors in Pennsylvania have now filed criminal charges against the father of a Chambersburg boy who disappeared on a trip to Egypt.

Egyptian protesters wave national flags and chant anti-Supreme Council of Armed Forces slogans during a protest after Friday prayers in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb.

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A German couple and their child drowned in a tourist submarine accident off Egypt's Red Sea resort town of Hurghada.