Tarek El-Tayeb, 25, had always hated Christians. He was known among his friends as Tarek “El-Salafi” as he followed the ultraorthodox school of Islam.

Forty political groups plan to take to the streets tomorrow to demand justice for those killed a year ago in the Maspero massacre.

Constitution Party founder Mohamed ElBaradei has called for the perpetrators of the Maspero clashes, which took place one year ago today, to face justice.

"The moment I saw my brother laying on the ground covered with blood, after he was run over by an armoured military vehicle, fails to leave my memory, even one year later. Especially as I was hit when I tried to pick him up," says Wael Bishay, brother of Ayman, 40 who died in the 9 October Maspero massacre last year.

Emad Abdel-Ghafour was reappointed president of the Salafist Nour Party following ten-hour internal crisis talks which finished in the early hours of Saturday morning, over a week after the former leader was sacked by the party's Supreme Committee.

It is very unfortunate that Islamist in Egypt have not taken a lesson from Pakistan’s constitutional history

A satellite television network titled 'Greetings to You Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)' was launched in Egypt

UAE Foreign Minister Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Monday denounced the Muslim Brotherhood

Director and screenwriter Amr Salama is calling for support from the film and journalism communities in rejection of the censoring his latest script

There is no evidence to support that the Prophet Mohamed would have supported the outright cruelty of allowing more than 30,000 cows to suffer

Egyptian blogger and staunch military critic Maikel Nabil said those who died during Egypt's 1973 war with Israel were not martyrs and should not be celebrated, in a controversial tweet on the 39th anniversary of the historic event, Saturday.

Emad Abdel-Ghafour was reappointed president of the Salafist Nour Party following ten-hour internal crisis talks which finished in the early hours of Saturday morning, over a week after the former leader was sacked by the party's Supreme Committee.

Following the release of two Coptic children from custody on Thursday, the Civil Rights of Christians movement cancelled Saturday morning’s protest outside the High Court of Cairo.

Former members of the now-defunct National Democratic Party have launched a campaign against Egypt's draft constitution

Nine Coptic families in Rafah asked troops that are stationed in the city to increase their numbers to protect their homes and businesses

Two Coptic Christian boys have been detained by the authorities on charges that they defiled the pages of a Koran

A coalition of 33 women's rights organisations and initiatives are set to march from Merghani Street in Cairo

As the first anniversary of the Maspero violence approaches, activists and political groups are demanding that former SCAF members be put on trial, criticizing what they call “the safe exit of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces” from responsibility for the events.

The spokesperson for Egypt’s Shia community, Baha Anwar, met with US Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson on Wednesday to brief her on the situation of Shias in the country.

Responding to questions during an open discussion of the draft constitution, Mohamed El-Beltagui revealed that the Shura Council (the lower house of parliament) will most likely continue to exist with additional responsibilities, and that the parliamentary election system, whether majoritarian or party-list, will be included in the constitution, which was not previously the case.

The Egyptian Coalition on Children's Rights (ECCR) issued a statement Thursday strongly condemning the arrest of two Coptic Christian children, aged just nine and ten, for "insulting religion" in the upper Egyptian governorate of Beni Suef.