Up until last year, the career of Egypt’s new defense minister and army chief, General Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi had been a model of quiet progression

The Parliament's People's Assembly to be reinstated through a court verdict

Last month saw Egypt's latest large-scale "collective punishment" of Christian Copts

A complaint was filed by Dr. Samir Sabry, a cassation lawyer, against the Islamic Al-Nas Channel

When Rafek Farouk, cofounder of Copts 38, begun to chant against the Coptic Church’s divorce laws inside the church’s headquarters, dogs were brought in to run him and others off the grounds.

At the opening of the first General Conference of Student Unions on Wednesday, President Mohamed Morsy said Egypt is a civil state, not a military or religious one.

Salafist Nour Party spokesperson Nader Bakkar announced that he has turned down membership of Egypt's Supreme Press Council, in a statement on his official Facebook and Twitter accounts, Wednesday.

Cairo police have intensified their efforts to clear the city’s streets of all vendors, along with their stands, carts and unregistered kiosks

Egypt's labor organizations have been forced to operate in a legal vacuum since the revolution.

While dubbed mostly Islamist, the new formation of the National Human Rights Council raises critical concerns about the entity’s mandate, members say.

A spokesman for Egypt's Constitutional Assembly tasked with drafting a new constitution has denied recent speculation that Egypt's Al-Azhar would represent a "source of legislation" in the country's new national charter.

An Egyptian Muslim posted a YouTube videotape of himself cursing Islam and its holy book, the Koran

An ultraconservative Islamic group says Hamas security forces have detained 20 of its members in a crackdown on rocket fire from Gaza on southern Israel.

Egypt's first veiled newsreader on state television has drawn support from many viewers for ending an unwritten rule under ousted Hosni Mubarak that kept covered women out of the top job

A heavy metal concert has prompted a police investigation

The Shura Council (the upper, consultative house of Egypt's parliament) on Tuesday announced 27 new members of Egypt's National Council for Human Rights

Recently an Egyptian Muslim posted a YouTube videotape of himself cursing Islam and its holy book, the Koran; then tearing it to pieces and throwing it in the garbage. Here are excerpts of what he said:

A criminal court in North Cairo has postponed the case against two Copts charged after the Maspero massacre

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party has decided to orient its satellite channel, Misr25, toward preaching the group’s ideology to the Egyptian public.

Residents of Sansaft village in Monufiya detained their governor for an hour a fortnight ago while he was visiting a public hospital treating many of the 100 people who had become ill after drinking contaminated water. The residents even attempted to force their governor to drink the contaminated water until security intervened and released him.

Hundreds of Egyptian writers and artists staged a protest on Sunday, 2 September in front of the Shura Council (upper house) building to protest the first leaked drafts of the constitution that is being written by the Constituent Assembly.