The ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) is struggling to manage competition within the party for nominations, and opposition groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood are facing restrictions on their ability

“This is a giant that needs to be awakened to save Egypt…look at what other diaspora communities are doing,” said one enthusiastic participant in a recent London conference for the

With the issuing of two presidential decrees the battle of parliamentary elections is in full swing, reports Gamal Essam El-Din.

According to official sources, the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has set Sunday November 28 for the country’s parliamentary elections. Run-offs are scheduled for December 5.

No one is holding their breath about the outcome of Egypt's parliamentary elections, which are certain to leave President Hosni Mubarak and his National Democratic Party in charge.

International observers are for newly independent states without the institutions needed to run elections--unlike Egypt--according to Moqbel Shaker, Vice Chairman of Egypt’s National Human Rights Commission.

Judge Abdul Aziz Omar, Chairman of Cairo's Appeal Court and President of the Higher Committee for the elections, has listed November 20 to try veteran journalist Hamdy Kandil before Giza’s

Over the past few weeks there has been much discussion over whether Egypt’s most powerful opposition group the Muslim Brotherhood would contest November’s Parliamentary election.

State security forces abducted, activist Abdullah al-Saadawi, from the Imbaba district in Cairo while he was collecting signatures during door knocking in support of the chartered seven demands for reform.

In a recent article for the Foreign Policy Middle East Channel, Tarek Masoud makes the provocative claim that a rigged succession from President Hosni Mubarak to his son Gamal may