CAIRO: The man who has seemingly galvanized the Egyptian opposition into action, Mohamed ElBaradei, has returned to Egypt, but this time there were no crowds waiting for him at the airport, as the former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief slipped into the country to promote the change he began last month. Last month, when [...]

CAIRO: Egyptian opposition groups and political parties are pressing the government for amendments that would end the single-party ruling in the country. In a statement published on Tuesday, the opposition movement called on the government to scrap the Constitution if necessary in an effort to promote egalitarianism in the political sphere. The group has also [...]

CAIRO: With a strange, new and somewhat humorous slogan, the Egyptian campaign against succession was launched by the prominent leading opposition figure and former al-Ghad Party chief Ayman Nour, along with Egypt’s most prominent political groups, parties and intellectuals. They stood together on October 14, to launch the “did-eltawrees,” or against the bequeathal of power [...]

CAIRO: After the controversial rejection by Egypt’s Committee of Parties Affairs, the institution authorizing the establishment of political parties, of allowing the establishment of al-Wasat – a centrist, somewhat Islamist party – for the third time late last month, 100 Egyptian politicians and intellectuals announced their solidarity with the party’s ongoing efforts. This comes after [...]