New restrictions and regulations have been enforced by Egypt's National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) in an attempt to increase control over the SMS messaging services available by mobile phone companies

Al-Dostour’s recently dismissed chief editor, Ibrahim Eissa, was not fired due to ordinary disputes over administrative or editorial issues. The decision to remove Eissa was without a doubt political.

A new guide issued by The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace provides background and analysis to Egypt’s upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections.

Political openings in Egypt over the last 30 years have come in waves. Swelling and then retreating, they have had little permanence.

I write this article not as the leader of an opposition party but as an Egyptian citizen concerned about my country’s affairs and as a researcher who has studied Egypt’s

MP Mohamed Shordy and Al-Wafd party spokesman warned that thugs are being recruited by the ruling party to stir violence during the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for November.

Wafd Party leader Al-Sayed al-Badawi, announced that he would not run in Egypt 's upcoming parliamentary or presidential elections, stressing that his priorities were to restore the party's former glory.

Egypt's Wafd party has announced that it will take part in the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled to take place in November.

Media spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood, Dr. Mohamed Morsy, stated that the movement has not yet reached a final decision on whether or not it would participate in the upcoming

"State Security forces in Kafr El-Sheikh summoned dozens of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party's (NDP) members who planned to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections on the party's official list.