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One can’t argue against the fact that the year under Islamist rule was one of the worst years in recent history for the Coptic Christians of Egypt. Many Copts view former Commander-in-Chief of [...]

Daniel Wani, the husband of the Sudanese woman sentenced to hang for apostasy, has spoken for the first time of his delight at seeing his baby daughter – and his anger at the authorities’ [...]

What is required of him is to learn how to govern the people while on the job. This is imperative for the people to understand and to exercise appropriate patience and give him breathing space to [...]

Public executions are a regular weekly occurrence in Raqqa city, the provincial capital controlled by ISIS. In a number of verified cases, the bodies of executed people have been [...]

From the early afternoon of the second day, the national and private media engaged in a concerted effort to push people to go to vote (a system of compulsory voting exists in Egypt). State [...]

(Sisi claimed that terrorist threats prevented him from campaigning in the open, and the public didn’t seem to mind either way.) Of course, studied silence was never a sustainable strategy. [...]

The neighborhood, once established by the Mamluk Sultan Al-Daher Bibars in the 13th century, was a home for the city’s elites, one that is adorned with remarkable architecture. In its more modern [...]

Hours after the polls opened on the first day of presidential elections in Egypt, state security have already “arrested 20 rioters belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood” in a number of cities and [...]

First, many of Sisi’s supporters feel that a man with a military and intelligence background is necessary to restore security and stability to Egypt. They justify this view by pointing to [...]

On the eve of Egypt’s presidential elections, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party said on its Facebook page that no less than 48% of participants are (to be) Christians, ahead of [...]