Egypt’s military leadership had urged ousted President Mohammad Mursi “twice” to hold a referendum on whether he should stay in power to avoid political turmoil, the country’s Army Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Sunday. “The military forces have worked to give an opportunity for politicians to be responsible and to
Protesters in Cairo’s Rabia al-Adawiya Square believe they have seen the light. In a show of support for Egypt’s ousted president Mohammed Mursi, a preacher giving a sermon at the Square this week told the crowds of a miracle. In the speech, broadcast on Egyptian satellite channels, the preacher said the Angel Gabriel
The Muslim Brotherhood’s 80-year dream to take over Egypt ended in a fiasco, barely one year after one of their own was democratically elected to the office of President of Egypt. What are the possible scenarios? In Egypt on July 3, 2013, for the first time in the modern history of the Middle
Egyptian security officials arrested a Palestinian Authority Arab man on Friday in connection to a bomb blast which targeted a gas pipeline in Sinai last week, security officials told the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency. Mohamed Abu Hashem, 30, was detained in the Sinai Peninsula while trying to return to Gaza, Egyptian officials
Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is officially under criminal investigation, the public prosecutor announced in a statement Saturday. Although not yet formally charged, prosecutors said they were looking into complaints of incitement to violence, spying and ruining the economy. The charges are similar to those leveled against eight other top figures in the
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed alarm at reports that U.S. officials have conducted "direct meetings" with Hamas leaders and has called upon the Obama Administration to deny these reports if they are untrue. The United States, Europe and Israel all classify the Hamas movement, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since
Germany and the United States on Friday called for the release of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi amid mounting tensions between supporters and opponents over his overthrow. "We call for an end to the restrictions on Mr. Morsi's whereabouts," a German foreign ministry spokesman told reporters, according to the AFP news agency. The
The operation of Sharia courts in a democracy has nothing to do with religious freedom, but everything to do with political power and the appropriation of the host culture. It was not so long ago, in 2008, that Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, welcomed Islam into the United Kingdom. He now speaks
Tensions between rival Syrian rebel groups boiled over Saturday near Ras al-Hosn, in the north of Idlib province. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human rights, fighters from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) clashed with jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), exposing a growing rift between Al Qaeda-affiliated groups and
After evicting the Muslim Brotherhood from power, Egypt may be headed toward “a divorce from all things Palestinian,” an expert says. “A number of influential voices are now calling for an expulsion of Palestinians from Egypt’s military and police academies and its universities, a suspension of visas to all Palestinians, and an end of
