Tawfiq Okasha's Faraeen satellite television channel, which is known for its ultra-nationalist, anti-revolutionaries, anti-Brotherhood stances, ceases transmission on Thursday evening on orders of Egyptian state authorities
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Despite the bumpy road in the transitional period, the political activity in post-Mubarak Egypt is really remarkable and promising
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Egypt vows crackdown on 'infidels' after border massacre
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No more groping in the dark for information on what the people really want
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Regional power equations on razor’s edge
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Egypt expects to receive more than 12 million tourists by the end of 2012, a 23 percent rise over the previous year, the tourism minister said on Tuesday, adding that he did not expect the election of a new Islamist president to stifle the industry.
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was taunted by chants of "Monica, Monica" by tomato-throwing demonstrators as she visited the Egyptian port city of Alexandria
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Mursi must be very careful not to be seen doing America’s bidding
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In another political turmoil in Egypt, the highest court in the country on Tuesday overturned a decree by President Mohammed Mursi to recall Parliament.
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Egypt's new Islamist president and his old military foes have come out swinging in a struggle for political power, but their countrymen need them to find a way to work together to avert economic chaos. In the two weeks since his inauguration
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Egypt's Islamist president said on Wednesday he wanted talks with the judiciary and political powers to defuse a crisis over him trying reinstate parliament in defiance of generals who dissolved it last month based on a court ruling.
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Egypt's new president decreed on Sunday that the dissolved Islamist-led parliament should reconvene until a new one was elected
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Historical changes, new trends and dynamism are at play in the new Arab world which can help us forecast where the region is heading
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The election of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who campaigned largely on the Muslim Brotherhood's platform, plays an important role in the formation of the new Middle East.
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Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi began his first full day in office on Sunday, but with his powers sharply circumscribed by the military that has ruled since Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power last year.
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Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi began his first full day in office on Sunday. Mohammed Morsi arrived before Egypt's highest court to take the oath of office on Saturday as the country's first freely elected president,
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President-elect Mohammed Morsi addressed hundreds of thousands of people Friday in Tahrir Square in a dramatic appearance that symbolized the change his election represents in Egypt and highlighted the confrontation everyone is expecting with the military in the coming months.
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Egypt's first elected civilian president, Mohamed Morsi played up people power ahead of Saturday's actual inauguration by first taking a symbolic oath before a huge throng at Tahrir Square.
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Egypt's Islamist President-elect Mohamed Mursi will give a speech to crowds in Tahrir Square on Friday but his party faces challenge with the ruling military council over where he will take his oath of office.
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Egypt's president-elect Mohamed Morsi pushed ahead on Wednesday with selecting a government, after a court delivered a blow to the ruling military by suspending its powers to arrest civilians.
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Egypt's Morsi must co-rule with, confront army. His leadership is limited by the entrenched powers of the military.
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Legal and political experts express satisfaction over verdict that declared military's right to arrest civilians null and void; some say it is a pivotal step in the transition of power from military to civil authority
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Egypt has been under military rule for 60 years, not 16 months
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Egyptian President-elect Mohammed Morsi on Monday moved into the palace of the man who once jailed him.
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Egypt's president-elect Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood's winning candidate, benefits from unprecedented electoral legitimacy, but analysts say his leadership will be limited by the entrenched powers of the military.
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Egypt's first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi began selecting a new government on Monday as his supporters pursued a sit-in to pressure the ruling military to hand over full powers to the Islamist.
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With no parliament, the military taking complete legislative control over the country and now overseeing the writing of a new constitution, the Morsi victory brought out a myriad number of activists to the square.
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Egyptians in Tahrir Square erupted in cheers after Muslim Brotherhood-backed candidate Mohamed Morsi was declared the winner of the country’s election Sunday morning, becoming the Arab world’s first elected Islamist head of state after more than a year of popular uprisings
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Islamist Mohammed Morsi was declared the winner Sunday in Egypt’s first free presidential election in history, closing the tumultuous first phase of a democratic transition and opening a new struggle with the still-dominant military rulers who recently stripped the presidency of most of its powers.
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Mohamed Morsy’s strength, many said, was not charisma. He benefited from Egypt’s strong Muslim Brotherhood, as a key figure among those leading it.
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