The Salafi Front, one of Egypt’s most revolutionary Islamist movements, has established a new political party: Al-Sha’ab, or the People’s Party. While not particularly groundbreaking in light of Egypt’s current political fluidity, the group’s mix of policies favoring social justice with a strict Islamist frame of reference is intriguing.
The Salafist Nour Party has expressed its overall contentment with the draft constitution, curtailing speculations concerning the party’s position. “The Nour Party has approved 70 per cent of the draft constitution,” affirmed spokesman Nadar Bakkar to Ahram Online, emphasising his party’s general conviction with regards to the draft.
An argument between Islamists and liberals over the terms of the draft constitution erupted on Monday, jeopardising the fate of the charter. The two camps both said that unless their conditions were met, they would withdraw from the ranks of the 100-member Constituent Assembly tasked with writing the constitution.
Senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood official Ahmed al-Hamrawy on Monday resigned from the group
Egypt’s Channel 1 broadcast a video of Egyptian Cleric Futouh Abd Al-Nabi Mansour leading an Islamic prayer
There have been rays of the light of Jesus breaking through the gloom.
An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced controversial television presenter Tawfiq Okasha to four months in prison
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has thanked Qatar's emir for speeding the delivery of the opening tranches of a $2 billion loan aimed at boosting Egypt's troubled economy
Younis Makhyoun, a member of the Constituent Assembly and a member of the supreme body of the Salafi-oriented Nour Party, called on Egyptians to support Sharia in the constitutional referendum, but added, “Sharia, however, must be applied without voting.”
The Muslim Brotherhood's political party will seek an inclusive majority in Egypt's parliament through alliances with rivals, its new chief said, addressing fears of a narrowly Islamist outcome to the uprising against autocratic rule.
The Salafist Front launched a political party, named the People Party, Saturday afternoon. Speaking at the launch news conference, party spokesman Ahmed Mawlana said that the People Party is a pro-civil state party with an Islamic reference.
A Constituent Assembly member submitted a proposal Saturday for the article on Al-Azhar to include provisions for electing the Grand sheikh and determining an age for his retirement, which was rejected by Al-Azhar’s representatives within the assembly.
Three judges charged with attempting to break into the High Court building and injuring employees have had their convictions overturned
In an apparent about-face, the Muslim Brotherhood has on Wednesday admitted for the first time that some of its youth members took part in the clashes against opposition protesters last Friday in Cairo.
A senior Muslim Brotherhood leader on Wednesday vowed that the group would not go to Friday’s demonstration against President Mohamed Morsy to avoid clashes like those that took place last Friday.
The controversial trial of Alber Saber on charges of insulting religion resumed on Wednesday at the New Cairo Court.
After almost six decades of restoration, the 27th Dynasty Hibis Temple at Kharga Oasis regains its original allure
The Muslim Brotherhood has admitted for the first time that its members took part in Friday's clashes in Tahrir Square
The role Islamic Sharia law in Egypt's new constitution continues to stir controversy almost a week after the Constituent Assembly released its first official draft of the national charter.
Muslim Brotherhood lawyer Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Maqsoud lodged a complaint on Tuesday with the attorney-general against Egypt's media minister, the Egyptian Radio and Television Union, and the editor-in-chief of state-run magazine Rose El-Yousef for circulating "false news" about the Brotherhood and its leaders.
Egypt's new ambassador his country's new Islamist government remains committed to peace with the Jewish state.
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The Light of the Desert-Documentary on St Macarius Monastery, Egypt