Yehya Hussein, head of the "No to Selling Egypt" movement, accused the ruling National Democratic Party's policy secretariat of serious indiscretion, failure and neglect in implementing the privatization program after

A new pension law has been endorsed by the people's assembly in what has been described by opposition as a rushed session

Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif defended the decision to renew the dreaded emergency law, which has been imposed since 1981. He described the law as necessary in protecting citizens and

The past few days have witnessed tragic incidents at home, with the worst case of fraud taking place in the mid-term Shura Council elections in Egypt in what has become

The Egyptian Shura Council elections, which ended their second round yesterday, are largely viewed as an insignificant political event

The election result was also an explicit message to Africa and the West, that the Brotherhood was the only real alternative to power in Egypt.

This year has seen a dramatic increase in political dissent and workers' protests in Hosni Mubarak's Egypt. In the first installment of this three-part series, Mostafa Omar looks at the

According to human rights groups, widespread rigging dominated the Shura elections last week where the ruling party won 90 percent of the seats

The recent meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood and 'could be presidential candidate' Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei ended amiably as both parties agreed on the significance of political amendments and reform in

They make strange bedfellows. Mohammed ElBaradei is a staunch secular liberal; Mohammed Said al Katatni is the head of the Muslim Brotherhood bloc in Egypt’s parliament, a group of Islamist