Egyptian Couple Arrested for Smuggling Baby in Luggage
Thomas Northcut/Thinkstock(SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates) — An Egyptian couple’s attempt to sneak their infant son past airport security and into the United Arab Emirates ended in their arrest after the baby was discovered stuffed inside their c…
New Egyptian President Officially Takes Office
AFP/GettyImages(CAIRO) — Mohammed Morsi was sworn in Saturday as Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, and he announced a pledge to restore the country’s recently-dissolved parliament.The parliament was dissolved by the Egyptian …
Egypt’s New President Vows to Win Release of WTC Plotter
AFP/Getty Images(CAIRO) — Egypt’s president-elect has vowed to win the release of an Egyptian cleric jailed by the U.S. for planning the first attack on New York’s World Trade Center. Omar Abdel-Rahman, “the blind sheikh,” is serving a life sentence i…
New Egyptian President Starts Building Administration
AFP/GettyImages(CAIRO) — Wasting no time after his historic victory, Egyptian President-elect Mohammed Morsi got right to work on Monday to begin building an inclusive civilian administration.Morsi narrowly defeated former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahme…
Egypt’s President-Elect to Be ‘Judged by Actions, Not Religious Affiliation’
AFP/GettyImages(WASHINGTON) — White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters that he’d heard the criticism that Egypt’s choice to elect a Muslim Brotherhood candidate to the presidency showed that the Arab Spring was a debacle, but …
Muslim Brotherhood’s Morsi Wins Egyptian Presidential Election
AFP/GettyImages(CAIRO) — Egypt’s election commission announced on Sunday that the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate, Mohammed Morsi, had won the country’s first contested presidential election, making him the first Islamist president in the Arab world.He…
BREAKING NEWS: Mohammed Morsi Declared Egypt’s President
Eric Pearle/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The Egyptian Presidential Election Commission has declared Mohammed Morsi, of the Muslim Brotherhood, the winner in Egypt’s presidential election.
Morsi won the election 52-48, as the Muslim Brotherhood had predict…
Presidential Poll Results Expected on Sunday in Egypt
Stockbyte/Thinkstock(NEW YORK, N.Y.)– On Sunday the results of the Egyptian presidential run-off will be announced, the BBC reports.
Presidential candidates Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq and Mohammed Mursi had both considered appealing because the…
Obama’s Envoy to Egypt: Don’t Pick Sides
Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — In early 2011, as the so-called Arab spring was beginning to unfold in Egypt, President Obama sent a veteran diplomat to Cairo with a message for Hosni Mubarak: Leave.The diplomat, Frank Wisner, a former amb…
Egypt’s Former President Hosni Mubarak Suffers Stroke: Reports
AFP/Getty Images(CAIRO) — Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was rushed to a military hospital after suffering a stroke today, stoking public confusion over his condition. State media reported that Mubarak was clinically dead, but his lawyer deni…
Who Really Won Egypt’s Presidential Election?
MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/GettyImages(CAIRO) — The campaign of Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq claims that he, not the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate, won this weekend’s presidential election.The declaration of victory on Tuesday afternoon came jus…
Egyptians Unsure If Military Will Cede Power to New President
John Moore/Getty Images(CAIRO) — Egyptians were hoping for months that the just concluded presidential election would finally provide them with a free and open government.But now, the situation is more muddled than ever.Official results of the race be…
Muslim Brotherhood Claims Victory in Egyptian Presidential Election
Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images(CAIRO) — With most of the ballots tallied from this weekend’s presidential election in Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, leader of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, declared victory early Monday even as former Prime Minister Ah…
Muslim Brotherhood Claims Victory in Egyptian Presidential Election
Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images(CAIRO) — With most of the ballots tallied from this weekend’s presidential election in Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, leader of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, declared victory early Monday even as former Prime Minister Ah…
Call for Protests in Egypt Ahead of Presidential Election
iStockPhoto/Thinkstock(CAIRO) — As Egypt prepares to elect its new president this weekend, liberal activists in Cairo have called for a demonstration Friday evening to protest two rulings made by the country’s highest court on Thursday.One allows form…
Egyptian ‘Coup’ Dissolves Parliament
Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq attends a press conference in Cairo. (AFP/GettyImages)(CAIRO) — In the final days before this weekend’s landmark presidential run-off election, Thursday brought a pair of decisions that threw Egypt’s fledgl…
Egypt: Women Sexually Assaulted at March Against Sexual Harassment
Egyptian protesters shout slogans at a protest in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, June 8, 2012. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)(CAIRO) — Egyptian activists held a daylong blogging and tweeting campaign to end sexual harassment on Wednesday in response t…
Hosni Mubarak’s Condition Appears to Be Worsening
AFP/Getty Images(CAIRO) — The family of Hosni Mubarak is fighting back against rumors that the former Egyptian president is close to death despite news that Mubarak has been slipping in and out of consciousness after being sentenced to life in prison …
After Mubarak Verdict, Egyptian Candidates Play to Fears
MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/GettyImages(CAIRO) — With tens of thousands of Egyptians pouring into the streets across the country to protest what they see as a lenient sentence of life imprisonment for former President Hosni Mubarak, the two remaining candidates i…
Egyptians March in Outrage Over Former Ruler Mubarak’s Life Sentence
MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/GettyImages(CAIRO) — Thousands gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square today, and at almost 3 a.m. were still chanting that the revolution is back and the military government needs to go, creating speculation that the Arab Spring has retur…