News on Egypt

What Is Moor Mud?

2010-11-05T09:52:11Z

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Wide awake in Cairo

2010-04-16T10:09:50Z

"I'm addicted to being awake," says Sameh Marghani, under the dizzying lights of a Cairo neighbourhood teeming with families shopping and teenagers nodding to the boom-boom of their car stereos.

It is midnight in Heliopolis, in northern Cairo, where the late night bumper-to-bumper traffic gives no hint of a workday...

Mideast Egypt Church Attack

2011-01-04T14:32:25Z

Angry Copts chant anti-government slogans during a protest before clashing with Egyptian riot police in Cairo, Egypt, late Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. The head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church appealed to the government on Monday to address Christians complaints about discrimination to ease tensions as fierce riots broke out in the capital following a New...

APTOPIX Mideast Egypt Church Attack

2011-01-04T14:32:25Z

Two Coptic men, center and unseen, warn off two others wielding kitchen knives, left and right, who were trying to kick down the doors of a mosque, seen behind, during heavy clashes between Coptic youths and riot police, in the streets outside the Saints Church and a neighboring hospital, in Alexandria, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. A powerful bomb, possibly from a suicide attacker, exp...

Egypt Al Qaida

2011-01-04T14:32:22Z

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2010 file photo, hundreds of Egyptian Muslims gather following prayers outside Ibrahim Mosque in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, Egypt, protesting against what they allege was Egypt's Coptic Church holding two women captive for converting to Islam. In the weeks before the New Year's Day suicide bombing of an...

Mideast Israel Palestinians

2011-01-03T11:00:25Z

FILE - In this June 30, 2005 file photo, Israeli Cabinet Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, left, speaks during a press conference in Cairo. Israel's Labor Party will pull out of the government within two months if there is no progress in peace talks, Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a seni...

Mideast Egypt Elections

2011-01-02T07:00:22Z

Egyptian Muslims and Christians raise a copy of the Quran and a Cross in Shubra district, Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan.1, 2011 to protest against the terrorist attack on a Coptic Christian church in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria. A powerful bomb, possibly from a suicide attacker, exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church as a crowd of worshippers emerged ...