CAIRO: Egypt’s Coalition of the Youth of the Revolution declared on Monday its support for presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi in the upcoming elections, and called for the masses of the Egyptian people and the political forces to support him, and “to unite efforts behind him to face the remnants of the former regime.” The campaign [...]
CAIRO: Presidential hopeful Khaled Ali attacked the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces demands to draft the constitution before the upcoming presidential elections. There is no reason for the hurry to draft a constitution that won’t fit the people who sacrificed its best youth for the success of the revolution, said Ali in a [...]
CAIRO: In a press statement, presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi said that postponing the presidential elections for any reason is “totally unacceptable”. “There is a fixed timeline that has been announced for the handover of power to an elected president. Modifying this timeline would lead to a disaster”, Sabahi added. “The Egyptian people, who endured more [...]
CAIRO: When CIA thought they killed Aymen al-Zawahiri in a bombing strike in 2002, and they want to make sure that he is the right person, they sent a request for the former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, a stalwart of the Mubarak regime, and asked him for a vial of blood from a brother of [...]
CAIRO: The Salafist front has announced plans to join the protests in Tahrir Square, scheduled tomorrow, under the slogan “the only demand – together against the remnants of the former regime”. Demonstrators will protest the attempts by the Pre-revolution figures to return the key elements of the former regime to power. A statement from the [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s finance minister, Mumtaz al-Saeed, said on Thursday that he expects to seal a loan with the International Monetary Fund by May 15, before a new president for Egypt will be announced. “We expect to get approval of the IMF loan before May 15,God willing, we will take the loan before a president for [...]
CAIRO: Few hours ago, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed El-Baradei has officially announced that he will co-found of a new political party called “The Revolution”. The party includes prominent public figures such as the economist Galal Amin, the famous writer Alaa Al-Aswany, TV presenter and activist Gameela Ismail, politician and [...]
CAIRO: Two army officers who took part in protests against Egypt’s ruling generals last year have been jailed by a military court. Major Ahmed Ali Shouman, joined the demonstrations calling for an end to military rule following the overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak. Resultantly, he was sentenced to six years in prison for that [...]
CAIRO: Tonight, April 2, and as part of the In Translation Lecture Series, the Center for Translation Studies and the Department of Rhetoric and Composition are hosting a panel of artists who collaborated in painting the murals on Mohamed Mahmoud Street, which is next to The American University in Cairo (AUC) Tahrir campus. Artists Ammar [...]
SANA’A: While the international community congratulates itself on Yemen “success story” clamoring high and low that countries in the region facing mounting popular opposition should align themselves on Yemen’s power-transfer agreement avoiding the pitfalls of war, the country is furthering its descent into chaos. Although it is true that an agreement was negotiated and signed [...]
CAIRO: Aiming to empower the disadvantaged and marginalized communities in Egypt through the support of product development, Fair Trade Egypt is a unique company. Through technical assistance and business training, the company hopes to achieve a sustainable source of income for artisans through the trade of handicrafts within Egypt and abroad. Since its foundation, Fair [...]
CAIRO: The American University in Cairo (AUC) has recently launched an initiative to preserve the murals painted on the walls of Mohamed Mahmoud Street around AUC’s Tahrir campus. Plans are underway to preserve the current images, life-size, in another medium so that they might be later displayed. In the aftermath of the Port Said [...]
CAIRO: Is revolution bad for the economy? Tourism is down, the Gulf states refrain from sending Egypt money, the future of US-aid is unclear and attracting foreign investors won’t happen until it’s clear which direction Egypt will follow. And it’s not only the future that looks indecipherable, the past also is. Observers such as the [...]
CAIRO: The leader of Hamas in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, has denied allegations made by Egypt’s former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly, who is currently facing charges of ordering the killing the protesters during the January 25 revolution, last year, that Hamas members entered Egypt during the uprising to foment chaos and unrest in the country and [...]
SANA’A: Yemen’s 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman told reporters on Friday that she would continue to fight in “Change Square” until the government fulfills all the demands of the youth. The young activist, who reluctantly cast her vote earlier in the week to the benefit of President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi after having [...]
Algiers (dpa) – Rumors were swirling in Algeria Thursday about the health of the country’s founding president, Ahmed Ben Bella, who was admitted to a military hospital in Algiers early the previous day. The country’s official news agency, APS, denied rumours of the former revolutionary’s death. APS quoted an unnamed source close to Ben Bella, [...]
A year after the uprising, Egypt’s security forces continue to kill protestors with the same brutal tactics used in Hosni Mubarak’s last days in power, Amnesty International said after concluding riot police yet again used excessive force in policing protests in Cairo and Suez. The protests earlier this month followed the Port Said tragedy in [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Minister of State for International Cooperation and Planning Faiza Abul Naga told prosecutors investigating the case of foreign funding to NGOs that the United States “tried to hijack the January 25 revolution and manipulate the situation in Egypt in accordance with its interests.” She accused, during her testimony, the US of “hijacking and [...]
Tehran (dpa) – Millions of people were Saturday attending rallies across Iran, state-run media reported, to mark the 33rd anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution. The state-organized rallies were being held in more than 850 cities and towns. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a speech at the end of the rally in Tehran’s Azadi Square and [...]
DUBAI: A Bahrain woman jailed for reportedly listening to revolutionary music in her car was released on Wednesday and was greeted with 10,000 protesters in support, local activists in Manama told Bikyamasr.com. Fadhila al-Mubarak had been arrested at a checkpoint late last year after being caught listening to music the monarchy deemed revolutionary. In late [...]
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