The Interior Ministry issued a new decision to re-arrest Gamal Heshmat and leading Brotherhood Figures from Al-Beheira as they were transferred into Wadi Al-Natron prison

Anyone who has visited Egypt knows the deeply religious nature of its people. Whether you have lived here for years or just stopped by to see the usual touristy stuff,

As one of Egypt’s longest-serving judges, Mahmoud el Khodeiri’s decision to resign last month was not taken lightly. But the level of corruption and government interference in judicial matters, he

There are no specific indicators to denote how Egypt perceives the controversy involving Hamas and the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood. Lessons, however, must be derived from this controversy, particularly insofar as

Aboul Fotouh, the Secretary-General of the Arab Doctors Union, has been in government detention since late June, and is being charged with attempting to create a “global network of extremism”

“Welcome to my exile.” With those words trade union activist Mohammed al-Attar greeted me when I went to see him in Alexandria a few months ago.

While we're still arguing about whether there's life after death, can we add another question to the cart? Is there life after democracy? What sort of life will it be?

The Middle East Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and the United States Institute of Peace sponsored a presentation by Grand Mufti of Egypt Ali

Yesterday, in the third installment of his speaking series “Getting to Denmark: Where the State, Rule of Law and Accountable Government Come From,” Francis Fukuyama,

Sheikh Mohamed Sayyed Tantawi, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar and , the Muslim-majority country’s top religious authority, has vowed to ban the niqab (the veil which covers the entire face)