Saudi Imam asks Arab businessmen to invest in Egypt, stirs controversy
Islamic scholar and Saudi religious figure Mohamed El-Areifi draws praise as well as criticism on a visit to Egypt.
Islamic scholar and Saudi religious figure Mohamed El-Areifi draws praise as well as criticism on a visit to Egypt.
Salafist Nour Party chairman Younes Makhioun confirms ideological disagreements with Muslim Brotherhood, but does not hold them responsible for internal splits.
Targeting 100 per cent of seats, Egypt's Salafist Nour Party could welcome electoral alliance with breakaway group – Watan Party – and Muslim Brotherhood, according to spokesman Nader Bakkar.
Youssef Makhioun becomes new head of Egypt's most formidable Salafist party in uncontested party election on Wednesday.
Presidential office accepts Essam El-Erian's resignation from advisory post after latter cites 'conflict of interest' with new position as head of FJP's bloc in Shura Council.
Constitution Party leader Mohamed ElBaradei on Sunday reshuffled the party's steering committee and made changes to the party's structure in preparation for the upcoming parliamentary election.
The new steering committee includes former Democratic Front Party deputy leader Ibrahim Nawar; former Free Egyptians Party leader Basel Adel; Ghad Party founder Gamila Ismail; Kefaya founding member George Isaac; prominent legal expert Hossam Eisa; prominent writer Alaa Al-Aswany; New Woman Foundation founding member Hala Shukrallah; and prominent filmmaker Yousry Nassrallah.
La nueva Constitución ha nacido con un déficit político preocupante.
Emad Abdel-Ghafour, who resigned as head of Salafist Nour party last week, has announced the launch of new Al-Watan (Homeland) party Tuesday.
Under the slogan of "A free homeland and dignified people", Abdel-Ghafour announced the launch of the party during a news conference that was held at Al-Azhar conference hall in the eastern Cairo district of Madinet Nasr.
Gamaa Islamiya's official spokesperson, Tarek El-Zomor, told Ahram's Arabic-language website Sunday that negotiations were ongoing to create an Islamist coalition to run for the next parliamentary elections. The coalition will exclude the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP).
An Islamist electoral coalition, excluding the Muslim Brotherhood, is in the making says Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya's official spokesperson Tarek El-Zomor.
Seven political and legal changes will take place immediately in Egypt after the new constitution passed; ten more changes must be carried out in the near future.
One hundred and fifty leading members withdrawal from Salafist Nour Party, following the alleged resignation of party leader Emad Abdel-Ghafour.
El mensaje de la oposición egipcia tras el referéndum constitucional del sábado ha sido tan claro como desafiante: se ha perdido una batalla, pero la guerra por definir el alma de Egipto continúa. La Comisión Electoral anunció este martes el resultado definitivo de la consulta: la nueva Constitución recibió el apoyo del 63,8% de los votos.
Charter drafted by Islamist supporters of President Mohamed Morsi wins 63.8 percent of votes in two-round referendum.
Egypt's vice president has announced his resignation on the day of a referendum on a new constitution, state TV reported.
Mahmoud Mekki's resignation on Saturday was announced just hours before the end of voting in the second and final round of a referendum on a disputed Muslim Brotherhood-backed constitution.
Mekki, a career judge, has said he intends to quit once the charter is adopted.
The new constitution eliminates the post of vice president.
The No to Military Trials Campaign accuses Egypt's presidency of "lying" regarding the status of the military trials of civilians, in response to a statement released by Egypt's presidential assistant on foreign relations, Essam Haddad.
While Haddad's statement claims that the new constitution marks Egypt's progress towards universal Human Rights standards, including prohibiting the trying of civilians in military courts, the rights campaign condemned such a statement as completely false.
Egypt’s political opposition boycotted a debate on the draft constitution on Friday, one day before the second phase of the national charter’s referendum. The session, however, was held as planned.
The debate, designed to give opposition the chance to voice their reservations over the draft constitution, was held at the headquarters of the upper house of parliament (Shura Council).
A list of 90 members that shall be appointed to the Shura Council upheld by President Morsi; MENA reports that 75 per cent of the members are not from the Islamist current.
The National Dialogue Committee (NDC) has completed its final list of nominations for the Shura Council and plans to present it to President Mohamed Morsy on Friday.
The NDC was formed by the president in an attempt to appease political forces who oppose the draft constitution, and to bridge differences across the parties in the future of the political process.
Egypt's new public prosecutor, appointed by President Mohamed Morsi last month, has resigned from his post, judicial sources and the main state newspaper al-Ahram reports.
The resignation of Public Prosecutor Talaat Ibrahim Abdallah on Monday follows a furore among members of the judiciary who said Morsi's decision in November to sack the former public prosecutor and appoint Abdallah was an assault on the independence of the judiciary.