Ayman Nour, member of the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL), said on Tuesday that the alliance is negotiating with former Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, former presidential candidate Khaled Ali and Strong Egypt Party founder Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh to join it and topple what it called military rule.

Cairo Criminal court adjourned on Tuesday the trial of ousted President Mohamed Morsi over the violence that broke out in front of Ithadeya Presidential Palace to May 14 to continue hearing the witnesses.

An influential Qatar-based Islamist whose fiery sermons have caused tension between Gulf states said on Sunday that Egyptian presidential front runner Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will only bring downfall to the country.

Magdy Qorqor, a leading member of Egypt's largest Islamist alliance, said the binary division currently engulfing the country could have been prevented if Muslim Brotherhood supporters had agreed to hold a referendum on deposed president Mohamed Morsi prior to his ouster.

A committee tasked with appraising the monetary assets of the Muslim Brotherhood has seized the funds of 30 Brotherhood leaders as well as those of 12 NGOs and six companies allegedly affiliated to the outlawed group.

Egypt's Pope Tawadros II, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, visited Sunday the United Arab Emirates' Mar Mina Church as part of his five-day visit to the Gulf state.

A court in Egypt sentenced seven Muslim Brotherhood supporters to life in prison on Sunday for blocking the ring-road in Qalyubia in light of the police's dispersal of the Rabaa and Nahda sit-ins last August.

Egypt's Islamist Salafist Call movement, the mother-movement of the Salafist Nour Party that garnered the second-largest number of seats in Egypt's 2012 parliamentary elections, said its political party could be dissolved if the only other option was bloodshed.

A state of controversy dominated Pope Tawadros II’s Friday visit to the UAE, which is scheduled to last for five days. While the church said the visit came to provide religious services to followers in the Arab state, others claimed the visit was politically motivated.

The head of the Roman Catholic church in the Holy Land said Sunday that Israeli hate crimes against local Muslims and Christians are souring relations ahead of a papal visit.

The Muslim Brotherhood owns around 630 million EGP ($89.6 million) in the form of liquid and wired funds, bonds, and stocks, Youm7 reported Thursday.

The Salafist Nour Party has expressed its support for former Minister of Defense Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi during the coming presidential elections, stirring controversy among politicians and experts who believe such a position contradicts the party’s identity.

International Union for Islamic Scholars (IUIS) said Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawy attended a celebration in Hamad Bin-Khalifa University on Tuesday to celebrate the graduation of new graduates.

Supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi have called for a pluralist climate in Egypt almost a year after the Islamist leader was toppled, urging for a dialogue and requesting the army to disengage from politics.

On Thursday, the Supreme State Security Criminal Court, headed by Judge Hasan Fareed, will resume the trial of 86 Muslim Brotherhood supporters over charges of taking part in a gathering that threatened public peace, showing force, threatening to use violence, murder, attempted murder, damaging public and private property and assaulting police during riots that took place near Kafr al-Sheikh police station.

Cairo Court for Urgent Matters in Abdeen, headed by Judge Kareem Hazem, issued a verdict on Wednesday that the court had no jurisdiction in the lawsuit that demanded to consider the State of Qatar as a country that supports terrorism, Youm7 reported.

Cairo Criminal Court jailed Islamist Jihadist Adel Habara on Tuesday for two years for insulting judiciary during a hearing in which he repeated phrases disagreeing with the court, according to Al-Mogaz.

Shubra Criminal Court postponed Wednesday the trial of Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie to May 10 in order to hear the defense in the “Qalyub Highway case”, Youm7 reported.

A senior member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said on Monday that the movement had not selected an acting supreme guide, while its current supreme guide, Mohamed Badie, remains detained pending several trials.