Politics

Political news headlines, in-depth politics coverage and political opinion, plus breaking news on Egypt, Africa, MENA region, and world affairs.
Latest Politics News
The Tour Guides' Syndicate in Aswan held the presidency and government responsible for a vehicle transporting a group of tourists from Aswan to Abu Simbel that crashed on Saturday morning, killing one Chinese tourist and injuring 11 others. (AFP Photo)
Aswan

Aswan Tour Guides’ Syndicate condemns tourist car-crash

The Syndicate head demands suspending tourist activities until the government is ready…

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
The case, filed in August, called for the dissolution of the assembly on grounds that President Mohamed Morsi signed the bill forming it into law a month after the parliament that drafted it was dissolved (AFP Photo)
Constituent Assembly

Constitutional Court rejects Constituent Assembly dissolution case

The court rejected the case on grounds that since the assembly finished…

Ahmed Aboulenein
Ahmed Aboulenein
Police took shelter in the governorate building and used armoured vehicles to taunt protesters and throw rocks at them. He added that plainclothes policemen were assisting the police. (Photo courtesy of 6 April youth movement Facebook Fan Page )
Al Ahly

Port Said enraged over prisoners’ relocation

Clashes erupted between police and protesters after some defendants in Port Said…

Nouran El-Behairy
Nouran El-Behairy

Sunday 3 March. 2013, issue 2144

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
The accusations were based on Ziedan's book, The Arab Theology, where Ziedan referred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam as religions which came through "messages from heaven", and describing the religions as "three manifestations of the same essence". (Photo: Courtesy of Facebook Fan Page)
Books

Writers’ Union announces solidarity with Youssef Zidan

Author Youssef Zidan faces religious blasphemy charges for exploring Islam, Christianity and…

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
The detainees are suspected of trying to convert Muslims after being found with Bibles, images of Christ, and the late Pope Shenuda of Egypt's Coptic Christians. (AFP Photo)
Benghazi

Dozens of Egyptian Copts tortured in Libya

Copts reportedly tortured by Libya's Preventive Security for ‘proselytising’

Salma Hegab
Salma Hegab
Hundreds protested in Tala’at Harb Square in Downtown Cairo on Saturday against President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, in solidarity with the citizen killed by Central Security Forces (CSF) in Mansoura on Friday (Photo by Fady Salah)
Chants

Rage over death

Protesters criticise President Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood following the death of Mansoura…

Fady Salah
Fady Salah
Around 55 mostly local organisations have been granted approval to monitor Egypt’s upcoming parliamentary elections (AFP Photo)
parliamentary elections

The entire electoral process is our responsibility: SEC

The Supreme Electoral Commission announced details of the upcoming parliamentary elections in…

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
Necmettin Erbakan was Turkey’s prime minister in 1996 and the founder of the “National View”, an islamist political movement in the early 70s. (AFP Photo)
Badie

Godfather of political Islam remembered

Islamist leaders convene in Istanbul to commemorate the death of Negm El-Din…

Nouran El-Behairy
Nouran El-Behairy
Sectarian tensions are high in Egypt, which is home to the region's largest Christian minority, with violence occasionally flaring between Muslims and the Coptic Christians. (AFP Photo)
Christian

Egyptian Muslims clash with police amid religious tensions

The police acted after the protesters pelted them with stones in the…

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt