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Nine members of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political office were imprisoned for 15 days pending investigations on charges of joining an illegal group, which aims to hamper the implementation of the constitution and the law and possessing leaflets, which call for hatred for the regime and which...
Nearly 480 people, including 314 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood have been arrested on charges of organizing unauthorized demonstrations in support of the judges, who blew the whistle on election fraud.
Thousands of Egyptian riot police were deployed in central Cairo Thursday in an attempt to quell demonstrations and disperse opposition supporters, who took to the streets in support of the judges’ demands for the independence of the judiciary. Demonstrators were beaten up, streets and metro...
The movie adaptation of Dan Brown’s controversial novel, The Da Vinci Code, will not be seen in Egypt when it is released worldwide on May 19, 2006, ‘Abd al-Latīf Jābir writes in al-Sharq al-Awsat of May 10, 2006. The controversy comes as the movie claims that Jesus married Mary Magdalene...
During his recent visit to Egypt, former prime minister of the Netherlands, Prof. Andreas Van Agt, has praised Egypt’s role in promoting interfaith and intercultural dialogue. He has also welcomed the efforts of the Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU) to bridge the gap between the Arab...
The People’s Assembly’s approval of the two-year extension of the 25- year-old emergency law has provoked a furious reaction among Egyptian opposition, including the legally banned Muslim Brotherhood. Many people argue that the extension of the law will breed more violence in Egyptian society...
The Egyptian parliament has approved a two-year extension of the 25-year -old emergency law amidst strong opposition from Muslim Brotherhood and independent members of parliament. Arguing that the government uses the law to silence and oppress the opposition, Muslim Brotherhood members came to the...
A few days ago, news broke that the Egyptian Ministry of Interior had arrested a 22-member terrorist cell, calling itself al-Tā’ifa al-Mansoura [The Victorious Sect], on charges of planning terrorist attacks against a number of tourist sites, gas pipelines on the Greater Cairo ring road, and...
Egyptian police have managed to identify the bombers who carried out the April 24 blasts of the tourist resort of Dahab, as three North Sinai Bedouin, Mu’min Fārouq Muhammad ‘Alī, Karīm Ashraf ‘Abdallāh and Mājid ‘Alī Mahmoud. Two days after the triple blasts, two suicide bombers attacked...
President Muhammad Husnī Mubārak sent yesterday his warm greetings to Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, patriarch of the See of Saint Mark, and to Egyptian Copts abroad, extending his best wishes for Easter to all Orthodox churches.

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