The appointment of the Egyptian president's son to a high-paying job at a state-owned company raised accusations on Thursday of nepotism in the country where the unemployment rate hovers at 13 percent and many university graduates are out of work

What is happening in Egypt is not a normal conflict, nor does it represent the divergence of various blocs. It is a profound and vast rift regarding fundamental political issues

The government’s strategy of only appointing Muslim Brotherhood members to political and administrative decisions is a continuation of the oppressive policies of the disbanded National Democratic Party, claimed Nour Party leader Sherif Taha

After a political activist died in prison in Alexandria on Thursday morning, hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the Alexandria prosecutor’s office, chanting slogans against the Muslim Brotherhood and the Interior Ministry

Senior Muslim clerics in Egypt believe Pope Benedict XVI's abrupt resignation could reopen the way for dialogue with the Catholic Church, severed after Benedict's controversial 2006 remarks on the Muslim prophet, AFP reports

Egyptian officials are investigating the death of a French archeologist who was found dead in his Cairo apartment

Egypt's Culture Minister Mohammed Saber Arab backtracked on his resignation and resumed his work on Wednesday, a statement from his ministry said.

Minister of Tourism Hisham Zazou said that the tourism industry is the most affected sector due to events that Egypt is currently witnessing which affect Egypt's image abroad, thus negatively affect numbers of tourists coming to Egypt and cancel of flights.

GAZA: Egyptian forces have flooded smuggling tunnels under the border with the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip in a campaign to shut them down, Egyptian and Palestinian officials said.

Egypt's main agricultural bank is launching Islamic retail services this month to meet increasing demand in rural areas, a bank official told Reuters. "We are launching sharia-compliant retail banking this month with a portfolio of 50 million pounds ($7.5 million) and can raise that to 100 million" next June based on demand, said Abdel Rahman Al-Kafrawi, head of Islamic transactions at Principal Bank for Development and Agricultural Credit (PBDAC).

Shawqi Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam is to become Egypt's new Grand Mufti following a vote by members of the Al-Azhar Senior Scholars Authority on Monday. It is first time the Grand Mufti has been chosen in a vote as opposed to being appointed by the president.

Egypt’s Gamaa Islamiya and its Construction and Development Party have called for the fulfilment of the January 25 Revolution's goals away from violence in a Monday statement, marking the anniversary of ousted president Hosni Mubarak's departure.

Egypt's public prosecutor ordered the arrest of a Muslim cleric who said leaders of the main opposition coalition should be condemned to death under Islamic law for seeking to topple President Mohamed Mursi, the state news agency said on Monday.

Protesters and several NGOs from around the globe announced they will rally in front of Egyptian embassies on Tuesday in solidarity with Egyptian women who have been protesting against “sexual terrorism.”

Islamists who rose to power following the Arab Spring uprisings that toppled veteran leaders in Tunisia and Egypt are facing an uncertain future because they lack the political savvy to rule, analysts say.

The prosecutor General office ordered the arrest of Al-Azhar University professor Mahmoud Shaaban for his controversial fatwa which stipulated Egyptian opposition leaders should be punished by death for attempting to bring down a leader elected by the public.

Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday that he would resign on Feb. 28 because he was simply too infirm to carry on — the first pontiff to do so in nearly 600 years. The decision sets the stage for a conclave to elect a new pope before the end of March.

Dozens of anti-Muslim Brotherhood protesters have blocked the entrance to the Mogamma, the country's largest administrative building, in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

The Palestinian Jihadist movement in Gaza announced on Saturday that Egypt's Salafist Al-Watan Party Chairman Emad Abdel-Ghafour and former presidential candidate Hazem Abou Ismail will visit the besieged strip soon.

President Mohamed Morsy said in a meeting with Nour Party leaders Saturday evening that the national consensus initiative put forward by the party would be added to the agenda of the next national dialogue session, said Nour Galal al-Morra, party secretary general.

Following controversial statements by an Al-Azhar University professor claiming the opposition should be punished by death for attempting to bring down a leader elected by the public, a large number of Egyptians — Islamists and non-Islamists alike — have expressed their condemnation.