The leading opposition Muslim Brotherhood should have its place in politics and should not be listed as an outlawed group, an executive of the ruling National Democratic Party said this

Zahraa Khairat Al Shater, the coordinator of the association of Children for Freedom, is sending so many e-mails to her friends in several Egyptian governorates and outside Egypt, as she

A fresh wave of Egyptian government crackdowns against the main opposition movement has been directed against a varied range of targets - a students’ "summer camp" on the Mediterranean coast,

Allegations of widespread abuse dog Egypt’s police force despite government denials. As the BBC’s Jon Donnison reports from Cairo, experiences with the legal system are not always straightforward.

" Why have they detained him. He is a devout Muslim, an Egyptian aged citizen", said wife of engineer Nabil Moqbel.

At the beginning of the decade I spent a few years in the Middle East, both as an advisor to Javier Solana — the EU’s High Representative for Foreign &

Reporters Without Borders is outraged by a physical attack on journalist Aymen Rezgui of the privately-owned satellite TV station Al-Hiwar Attounsi in the centre of Tunis today. In a separate

Life in Egypt is hard for most people. Lower middle class families have to live on $50, $70 per month.

Arrests, more arrests and military trials, such was the Muslim Brotherhood’s week.

The president gave a speech about the democracy agenda, but he never put a democracy agenda together. In all policy areas, but especially in foreign policy and diplomacy, saying things