CAIRO: Sir Magdi Yacoub Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and 50-member committee member said it is important to allocate quotas for Women, Copts and Youth in the new constitution to assure the international community that Egypt does not discriminate between people, in an interview on al-Hayat satellite channel on Saturday.

Dozens of Muslim Brotherhood students staged march in Al-Azhar University campus located in Nasr City demanding release of their mates detained during recent protests supporting deposed President Mohamed Morsy. They also called for dismissing Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb and the University President Osama al-Abd.

CAIRO: National Alliance to Support Legitimacy leader and Independence Party general secretary Magdy Qorqor said in a statement to Youm7 that the alliance has called for protests on Sunday, not the Muslim Brotherhood.

CAIRO: Former Head of Egyptian Intelligence Omar Suleiman’s sound recordings “put us in an unwanted comparison between Hosni Mubarak’s security state and the Muslim Brotherhood’s religious state,” said official spokesperson of the Free Egyptians Party Shehab Wagih, because the former accepts revolution where the latter denies it.

A Muslim Brotherhood-led, Islamist alliance is planning large protests on Sunday to mark 100 days since the violent dispersals of sit-ins demanding the return of ousted President Mohamed Morsy in August.

Younis Makhyoun, chief of the Salafi-oriented Nour Party, has claimed the Muslim Brotherhood is paving the way for more violence in Egypt.

CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood is likely to suspend the elections of its Guidance Bureau amid the current political turmoil in Egypt, MB’s legal team member Mohamed Touson told Youm7, Thursday.

Hundreds of students protested in Egyptian universities nationwide on Thursday, condemning the Wednesday violence at Cairo's Al-Azhar University that left one dead, according Egypt's state-run Middle East News Agency (MENA).

Salafi Front spokesperson Khaled Saeed said that the front called on its supporters to withdraw from protests, if they turn violent, either by a third party or by the Pro-military Sisi supporters.

Cairo Criminal Court has upheld an order to detain a group of Muslim Brotherhood leaders 15 days pending investigations, refusing an appeal lodged by the defendants.

Sinai-based jihadi group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis revealed the identity of its member behind the attack on South Sinai security directorate building on 7 October, leading to the death of five soldiers and the injury of 50 others.

Investigations revealed that the two people who were killed on the two-year anniversary of the Mohamed Mahmoud street clashes on Tuesday were reportedly both sympathizers of the Muslim Brotherhood.

A leading member of the Islamist grouping the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy has said that the alliance and the Muslim Brotherhood have no link with the bomb attack on Wednesday in Sinai that killed 12.

CAIRO: Less than 48 hours after the Muslim Brotherhood called for unconditional dialogue to reach a solution to the current crisis, they rescinded their offer on Tuesday, according to Brotherhood leader Mohamed Bishr.

The Jamaa al-Islamiya Tamarod campaign coordinator Walid al-Bersh said the campaign has been subject to daily threats by group leaders.

400 members of various pro-revolutionary groups have entered Tahrir Square for the first time since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi on 3 July.

Islamic Jihad Movement leader Magdy Zaky told Egypt Independent Tuesday that the Muslim Brotherhood protests were useless and most likely self-destructive as long as they remained peaceful.

CAIRO: The Ministry of Education said it will compensate each of the families of students killed in the Dahshour train accident with 30,000 EGP ($4,355), said Minister of Education Mahmoud Abou el-Nasr on Tuesday.

CAIRO: Head of the legislative committee of the former parliament Mahmoud al-Khodery demanded former president Mohamed Morsi not “escalate” tension and to seek reconciliation.

A Muslim Brotherhood source speaking on condition of anonymity has told Ahram Online that the "national dialogue" proposed by the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL), an Islamist umbrella group gathering supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, is a result of "external pressure exerted on the group and their allies" to push "for integrating in the current political scene."

Walid al-Borsh, coordinator of the Jama'a al-Islamiya’s Tamarod campaign, has said that the internal elections of the group would take place before the end of the year.