Dozens Injured As Egyptian Islamists and Government Opponents Clash Over...
Scores of people were injured in weekend clashes in Cairo after opposition activists clashed with Islamists who were rallying on behalf of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked President Mohamed Morsi. At...
View ArticleAdvice from Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood: Tell Daughters “Don’t Be Like Jews...
The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is facing criticism after journalists uncovered a post on the group’s official website that counsels families to tell daughters “wash your courtyards and don’t be like...
View ArticleEgyptian Islamists Push Forward Law Targeting Judges, Risk More Violence
Egyptian Islamists who control the country’s parliament are pushing ahead with controversial legislation aimed at forcing the retirement of judges inside Egypt’s relatively secular Egyptian judiciary....
View ArticleU.S. Allies Blast Qatar for Al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood Support
Qatar and Turkey are playing key roles in boosting hard line Islamic groups across the Middle East. Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., and Jordan are trying to support groups which are relatively more moderate....
View ArticleLeaked Phone Transcripts Allege Hamas Role in Triggering Egypt Violence
Egyptian media outlets are again linking Hamas to violence in the country stretching back to the 2011 Egyptian Arab Spring. Earlier this week Egypt’s former interior minister floated the suggestion...
View ArticlePro-Islamist Qatar Foreign Policy Triggers “Blunt” White House Exchange
Qatar’s support for radical Islamists across North Africa and the Near East was at the root of a “blunt” exchange between President Barack Obama and Qatari emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani during...
View ArticleEgyptian army destroys more smuggling tunnels, underscoring rift with Hamas
The Egyptian army has launched another campaign to destroy the roughly thousand of smuggling tunnels that link the Egyptian-controlled Sinai Peninsula to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Authorities...
View ArticleEgypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-Linked Government to Issue Islamic Bonds
In a move that is bound to reinforce concerns over creeping Islamism in Egypt, the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked government had announced that it will be issuing sharia-compliant bonds in an...
View ArticleVigilantism Spiking in Egypt Amid Economic Turmoil, Political Instability
Vigilantism is on the rise throughout Egypt as the economy contracts, political legitimacy crumbles, and security deteriorates. The quotes assembled by Bloomberg for their story on the dynamic are…...
View ArticleEgyptian PM: Egypt Welcomes Turkish PM’s Controversial Gaza Visit
The prime minister of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked government, Hesham Kandil, declared this week that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan would be welcome to visit the Gaza Strip through...
View ArticleTit-for-tat Petitions Highlight Political Divisions in Egypt
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is at the center of tit-for-tat petitions seeking to highlight criticism and support for his Muslim Brotherhood-linked administration. A petition circulated by...
View ArticleEgyptian Economists: Egyptian Economy Worst Since the Great Depression
Leading Egyptian economists told The Guardian that Egypt is facing its worst economic crisis in eight decades. One of the country’s top economists, Galal Amin, bluntly told the paper that the economic...
View ArticleKidnapping of Egyptian Soldiers Risks Widening Rift Between Government and Army
The recent kidnappings of seven Egyptian security officials in the Sinai Peninsula is calling attention to increasing lawlessness in the territory. The weakening of the Egyptian government following...
View ArticleEgypt Brushes Off Camp David Concerns, Pours Soldiers Into Sinai Peninsula
Egypt is rolling forces into the Sinai Peninsula in response to the kidnapping of its security personnel. Cairo, of course, is treaty-bound by the Camp David Accords to limit the scope of its...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Israel Signed Off on Egypt Sinai Campaign, As Egypt-Hamas Tensions...
An Israeli official has confirmed to The Tower that Egypt had received permission from Israel ahead of time before launching its current military campaign in the Sinai Peninsula. Cairo has poured...
View ArticleTop Egyptian Salafist: Muslim Brotherhood Sympathetic to Sinai Jihadists,...
This week’s campaign to free seven kidnapped Egyptian security officials in the Sinai Peninsula exposed deep rifts between the Egyptian army and the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked government. The...
View ArticleLawlessness, Blackouts Roil Egypt As U.S. Warns Against Pyramids Tourism
Lawlessness has become so endemic in Egypt that the U.S. Embassy this week warned Americans away from visiting the country’s famed pyramids. A academic teaching at the American University in Cairo...
View ArticleIntellectuals, Writers, Artists Blast Egyptian Culture Minister for Attacking...
Many of Egypt’s leading artists and intellectuals are demanding the removal of the country’s newly appointed minister of culture. Their concerns revolve around, among other things, the perception that...
View ArticleEgyptian Islamists Target Coptic Teacher, Egyptian-German Writer
In the latest signs of growing extremism and intolerance in the Arab world’s most populous state, an teacher in Egypt has been fined for blasphemy and an Egyptian-German author critical of radicalism...
View ArticleHezbollah Chief: Group Battling Sunni “Takfiri Project” in Syria
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah today committed his Lebanon-based Shiite terror group to further fighting in Syria: The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group vowed Friday to keep fighting in Syria...
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