Dr Essam Al-Arian, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood Executive Bureau, has stressed that the Muslim Brotherhood is facing an unprecedented police crackdown that appears certain to weaken the political

Egypt rebuffed recent allegations by former US President George Bush who maintained that the Egyptian president had encouraged him to invade Iraq in 2003 on the grounds that it possessed

Why should we pay attention to the 28 November legislative elections in Egypt? Once more, many might say, an Arab country holds a rigged poll, producing yet another rubber-stamp Parliament

Next Sunday Egyptians go to the polls to choose 508 members of parliament from among 5,200 candidates. Among those standing are 380 women and 80 Coptic Christians. Sixty-four seats are

The king is old and sick, perhaps dying. The queen is said to want their second son as successor. But the old guard in the military and intelligence circles think

Internet campaigns for political reform in Egypt are losing traction because opposition groups have failed to channel online voices into a grass-roots movement capable of challenging the authorities.

Egypt dismissed as interference, calls to allow foreign observers to monitor the country's parliamentary elections later this month, an official said.

Egypt criticised the United States on Thursday for interfering in its affairs after Washington called for foreign monitors in this month's parliamentary elections and met with a group pressing for

Despite assurances and avowals by the ruling party’s officials that Egypt’s parliamentary elections will be free, fair and transparent the run up reveals anything but. The current incidents in Egypt’s

With the run-up to the parliamentary polls reports of the monitoring have been collected by, the Egyptian Association for Supporting Democratic Development.