Category: <span>Egypt</span>

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

by Shahira Amin | 18 May 12

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

by Shahira Amin | 14 May 12

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

by Shahira Amin | 04 May 12

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

by Shahira Amin | 30 Apr 12

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

by Shahira Amin | 23 Apr 12

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

by Haifaa G Khalafallah | 28 Feb 12

Egypt's secretary of education has instructed educational institutions to prohibit students from engaging in political activities. The prohibition...

Military court hears evidence in Egyptian “virginity tests” case

by Shahira Amin | 27 Feb 12

A Cairo military court on Sunday heard witness testimony in a case against a soldier who allegedly performed "virginity tests" on seven female...

Released Maikel Nabil continues to speak out against military rule

by Shahira Amin | 30 Jan 12

Ten months in a tiny prison cell with padded walls and flickering lights have done little to alter 26 year-old Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil's views...