Constitution expert Nour Farahat on Monday criticised recent statements by Mohamed Omara, member of the Salafist Nour Party and Egypt's Constituent Assembly (tasked with drafting a new constitution), regarding the legal minimum age for women to marry.

Amnesty said thousands of protesters were injured or maimed

It was just before dawn on Sept. 16 when Mahmoud heard the unmistakable roar of a helicopter gunship

It’s called diplomacy. That’s what the State Department does.

Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb called for reconciliation between Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah during a meeting Monday with Hamas Religious Affairs Minister Ismail Said Radwan.

One of the main factors that hinder societies from achieving progress is “denial”

Egyptian authorities have released television presenter Tawfiq Okasha

Prime Minister Hisham Qandil said Egypt is seeking to establish a strong and sincere partnership with European Union

A governorate official said that residents of the informal Cairo neighborhood of Duweiqa will only be moved to 6th of October City if they deserve it

Trial proceedings in the case of Egyptian Islamist preacher Abu Islam Ahmed Abdullah, who faces charges of defaming the Christian faith by burning copies of the New Testament in front of the US embassy in mid-September, have been adjourned to 14 October.

The Salafi Dawah board expressed support Saturday for the supreme authority of the Salafi Nour Party's decision to withdraw confidence in embattled party president Emad Abdel Ghafour.

Candidates of the Construction and Development Party, the political arm of Jama’a al-Islamiya, will run in the upcoming parliamentary elections on independent lists, party leaders told Al-Masry Al-Youm Sunday.

The Maspero Youth Union, a coalition of young Coptic Christian activists, issued a statement on Friday condemning what it described as "forced displacement" of nine Christian families from the city of Rafah in North Sinai. The group stated that the situation was a clear violation of the rights of Egyptian Christians and was in defiance of state sovereignty.

Popular Salafist preacher Yasser Borhamy confirmed in a media statement Friday that the meeting which he was blamed for attending, with former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, was part of an initiative made by El-Nour Party to mediate between different groups.

Political parties, the Al-Azhar and the Coptic Church, in a meeting held at the Shura Council on Tuesday managed to resolve disputes

On Friday, March 30, 2012, Hisham Y. Altalib visited the White House

An actress who said she was duped into appearing in an anti-Islam film

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi said he the Egyptian Muslim cleric jailed in the Unites States, to serve out the rest of his sentence at home

An Egyptian court has upheld a six-year jail sentence for a Coptic Christian school teacher

Egypt's FJP is consulting with other political parties and the financial industry introducing rules allowing the issue of sukuk

After the outbreak of the January 2011 revolution, the Interior Ministry began a new era based on respect for fundamental freedoms