Businessman and prominent leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, engineer Khairat al-Shater, has begun investing in the aviation in recent weeks, a source familiar with the matter told Al Arabiya on Monday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said Shater “is currently looking for a partnership to buy seven airplanes from Egypt Air that
Documents belonging to Egyptian football history were burned and its trophies looted, an online website reported Egyptian Football Association (EFA) Chief Executive Sarwat Swelam as saying Saturday. “The situation is very difficult. The EFA headquarter was totally burned and president Gamal Alaam will return from abroad to attend today’s urgent meeting,” Swelam told state
A court verdict over deadly soccer violence sparked fresh unrest in Egypt on Saturday, with two people killed and buildings torched in Cairo, AFP reports. A Port Said court, sitting in Cairo for security reasons, confirmed death sentences for 21 defendants and handed down life sentences to five people, with 19 receiving lesser jail
The Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups threatened on Friday that a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama to the Temple Mount during his upcoming visit to Israel will be a declaration of war on the Arab and the Islamic world. A Hamas representative in the Al-Aqsa mosque, Mushir al-Masri, even called for a
Osama bin Laden's son-in-law has been detained by U.S. authorities and is due to appear in court in New York on Friday on charges he plotted with the Al-Qaeda leader to stage attacks on Americans, AFP reports. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, reportedly a 47-year-old Kuwaiti and allegedly one of the chief propagandists of the Al-Qaeda
Worshippers started throwing rocks at security forces, Friday afternoon, at the end of Muslim prayers at Temple Mount mosques in Jerusalem's Old City. Police stationed at the Mughrabi gate broke in and began to throw stun grenades to disperse the stone throwers. The rioters responded with firebombs. One policeman was lightly injured and
Egypt's administrative court on Wednesday ordered the cancellation of controversial parliamentary elections scheduled for April 22, throwing the country deeper into political crisis. AFP reported that President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood both issued statements saying they would respect the court's decision, although it was not immediately clear whether the president would appeal.
The United States is warning that Iran has taken “further provocative actions” rather than moving towards compromise and cooperation on its nuclear development activities. Speaking at a meeting of the agency's board of governors in Vienna, the chief U.S. envoy to the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency, Joseph Mcmanus said Iran’s unwillingness to
The president of the Egyptian Jewish community was acquitted last week of fraud and embezzlement of 3 million Egyptian pounds ($450,000), the Egyptian Independent reported. Carmen Weinstein, who was acquitted by the Abdeen Court of Misdemeanors, had been sentenced to three years in prison in absentia by the Heliopolis Court of Misdemeanors in March
Gunmen have attacked an Egyptian Coptic church in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, assaulting two priests, the Libyan foreign ministry said Sunday, days after dozens of Egyptian Christians suspected of proselytizing were arrested. The Libyan foreign ministry said it "strongly condemned Thursday's attack on the Egyptian church... and the aggression towards Father Paula Isaac
