As Christians around the world gather to celebrate Christmas, thousands will be taking their lives in their own hands when they go to their places of worship

Mahmoud Hussein, the Muslim Brotherhood secretary-general, dismissed Mohamed ElBaradei’s constitution initiative as unrealistic

An Egyptian fashion designer and mother of two received the final 50 lashes of her 500 lash sentence early Monday morning

Rights lawyer Hafez Abu-Seida has filed an appeal against President Mohamed Morsi's decision to appoint 90 members of the Shura Council

The highest seat of learning in the Sunni Muslim world, is sparking a new controversy

Dubai's Majid Al Futtaim (MAF), is in talks with Egypt's Mansour Group

In Israel, the unfolding events in Cairo are worrisome and intelligence and Foreign Ministry officials continue monitor the changes

Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty in 1979, but relations have been cool, and visits like this are rare

U.N.-Arab envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi entered the war-torn country on his way to meet embattled President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus

Human rights activist Maikel Nabil was the first political prisoner in post-revolution Egypt

Appointments include senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders such as Essam al-Erian and Sobhi Saleh and military figures such as Adel Morsy, the former head of the Military Judiciary Authority

Egypt's constitution appears to have passed with 64 percent of Egyptians voting "yes,"

Two priests from the Coptic Orthodox Church in Sudan have been arrested after the religious conversion of a Muslim in the Islamist-run state, church sources said

An Egyptian court has ordered the retrial of two policemen sentenced to seven years in prison in the killing of a young man

Twenty-two year old Egyptian activist Aliaa Magda Al Mahdy was pictured fully nude, holding up an Egyptian flag outside the Egyptian embassy

Egypt's opposition, facing defeat over a new constitution in a referendum this weekend, urged its supporters to reject the Islamist-backed charter and pledged to fight on

The April 6 Youth Movement accused two Jama’a al-Islamiya members of fracturing one of its member’s noses as he was distributing leaflets in Minya

UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi visited Cairo on Tuesday for meetings on the Syrian crisis

Two members of the 'Hazemoun' movement – supporters of Salafist leader Hazem Abu-Ismail – were detained by police on Tuesday in the wake of Saturday's attack on the liberal Wafd Party headquarters, according Ahmed Samir, a leading member of the movement.

The three Egyptian churches took part Tuesday in the fourth session of a national dialogue presided over by Vice President Mahmoud Mekky.

Egyptian Islamist groups are planning a mass protest in Alexandria on Friday, a move that will raise tensions a day before the final stage of a referendum on the new constitution that has split the nation.