On Monday, Egypt's judiciary released the names of 44 people indicted in the ongoing investigation into foreign funding of nongovernmental organizations operating in Egypt. The list included 19 American employees of U.S.-funded NGOs raided by Egyptian police late last ...

On Wednesday night, a soccer match between the local Port Said team and the Cairo-based Ahly erupted in violence; 74 rioters were killed and hundreds injured in the fighting. Egypt's parliament convened an emergency session on Thursday to discuss the ...

Senators Carl Levin and John McCain, leaders of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, told Foreign Policy Tuesday that withholding military aid to Egypt was now a real possibility due to the Egyptian military's role in the late-December raids ...

The first anniversary of Egypt’s revolution elicited commentary on Egypt’s transition, not all of which was optimistic. In a joint piece for the Washington Institute for Near East Peace, Samuel Tadros argues that "there is no true democratic transition in Egypt," ...

Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and in cities across Egypt today to commemorate the first anniversary of the uprising which overthrew former President Hosni Mubarak. Activists began to fill Tahrir as early as ...

Egypt's lower house of parliament, the People's Assembly, met for the first time today since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in February. The first session came just days after the official results of parliamentary elections were ...

Today, Australia Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, in a joint appearance with his French counterpart, Alain Juppe, stated, "Our view in Australia is that Assad must go." This echos what Juppe had said previous when meeting with Volkan Bozkir, Turkish parliament's ...

The U.S. State Department announced that Deputy Secretary of State William Burns arrived in Cairo Tuesday for meetings with Egyptian officials, politicians, businesspeople, and civil society leaders. Victoria Nuland, spokeswoman for the State Department, said the discussions "will ...

  The Muslim Brotherhood decided to support Egypt's interim cabinet remaining in power until after the presidential elections scheduled for June, according to a senior leader in the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party. In an interview with David Kirkpatrick ...

  In a paper entitled Salafis and Sufis in Egypt, which was released by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Jonathon Brown reviews Egypt's latest election and the gains made by a number of Islamist parties- particularly the Muslim Brotherhood ...

On Saturday, U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) met with members of the Muslim Brotherhood, ruling military leaders, and the prime minister in Egypt. The Brotherhood released a statement noting three top officials met with Kerry and U.S. Ambassador ...

The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) said on Wednesday that they won a majority of seats in the run-off elections, with Salafis coming in second. One source told Reuters that the FJP secured 39 ...

As'ad AbuKhalil, writing for Alakhbar English, argues that the success of Islamist political parties is "the dominant story," but the coverage is not mentioning that these parties "have been organized for decades while some leftists and liberals ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov likened the conflict in Syria to civil war after an attack by defected soldiers on a heavily fortified military base in the Damascus suburbs. Lavrov stated that the Arab League "must call on all ...

Egypt's supreme administrative court has ruled that former members of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) will be permitted to run in upcoming parliamentary elections. After weeks of speculation on the status of the NDP, the party of ...

In an article for the Council on Foreign Relations, Ed Husain argues that the Muslim Brotherhood's practice of offering free food and social services to Egyptians "smacks of bribery and corruption when used at election time to gain ...