Feature: Power outages, electricity price hike bother Egyptian during Ramadan
July 5, 2014 - 11:00pm
Daily hours-long power outages along with unbearable summer heat are bothering Egyptians during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, where 90 percent of the country's 94 million people fast nearly all day long.
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Egypt moves to restrict Ramadan sermons
By Mariam Rizk | June 30, 2014 - 7:02am
Egypt will restrict sermons during the holy month of Ramadan to topics of faith and morality, the state's top official in charge of religious affairs said yesterday, in the latest measure by the government to control...
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New Egypt president sworn in, calls for stability
By Hamza Hendawi | June 9, 2014 - 4:09am
Egypt's former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi was sworn in yesterday as president for a four-year term, assuming the highest office of a deeply polarized nation roiled by deadly unrest and an economic crisis since...
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Egypt's Brotherhood says vote is 'null and void'
By Sarah El Deeb | June 5, 2014 - 6:33am
The political party of Egypt's Islamist president ousted by the military last year said yesterday it considers the election of the former army chief as the next president "null and void" and will accept nothing short...
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Egypt criminalizes dishonoring anthem, flag
By Sarah El Deeb | June 1, 2014 - 7:05am
Egypt's outgoing interim president issued a decree making dishonoring the Egyptian flag or not standing for the national anthem a criminal offense, punishable by sentences of up to one year in prison and a fine of...
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Turnout low, Egypt extends presidential vote a day
By Laura Dean and Sarah El Deeb | May 28, 2014 - 6:51am
Egypt extended its presidential election an extra day as the government, military and supporters of front-runner Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi scrambled on yesterday to increase turnout after two days of reportedly thin...
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Former US President Carter 'concerned' over Egypt
By Mariam Rizk | May 18, 2014 - 6:12am
Former US President Jimmy Carter is warning Egypt that its transition to democracy after years of political turmoil is faltering ahead of presidential elections later this month.
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News Analysis: Future of Egypt's Brotherhood remains uncertain: experts
May 11, 2014 - 11:00am
The recent remarks of Egypt's two sole presidential candidates on the Muslim Brotherhood's futurelessness put the controversial Islamist group at stake in terms of its reengagement in the country's political li...
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Egypt sentences 683 to death in another mass trial
By Mamdouh Thabet and Maggie Michael | April 30, 2014 - 2:25am
The Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader and more than 680 other people were sentenced to death Monday stemming from last year's post-coup violence in the latest mass trial that was denounced in the West and by...
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Blair: Radicalized Islam a growing threat
April 24, 2014 - 2:00am
The West should set aside its differences with Russia and China to focus on the growing threat from radical Islam, Tony Blair said yesterday, in a speech that included a call to support Egypt's military government...
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