There's suffering, uncertainty and threats that loom. But seriously, did we actually not understand two years ago that we were at the beginning of a long and dangerous process? Do we really think that, once shackles are thrown off, peace and prosperity automatically break out?

Five people were reportedly shot dead in the Egyptian city of Suez on Friday during nationwide protests on the second anniversary of the overthrow of ...

Last month, Time Magazine featured the Egyptian president Morsi on its front page as 'The most important man of the Middle East'. It's an honorable title, but in the streets of Cairo the liberal protesters perceive this as demotivating nonsense.

William Hague has expressed deep concern at the ongoing violence in Egypt, urging authorities and opposition activists to show restraint as protests a...

A court in Egypt has reportedly sentenced to death seven Christians for taking part in an anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims, which caused internati...

Calls made by a radical Egyptian Muslim leader to destroy the "idolatrous" sphinx and pyramids are being taken seriously by Egyptian security authorit...

A blindfolded boy, believed to be guided by the hand of God, has chosen the next leader of the Coptic Christian Church in a highly ornate and slightly...

Yom Kippur 2012 is over. The Day of Atonement didn't bring any difference in the news we could find in the printed media. Do me a favor and check your newspaper right now. Ninety percent of the pictures and the articles are about problems instead of solutions, crisis instead of chances, war instead of peace. How come? Is there nothing positive to share? Is there no hope?

The director of an anti-Islam film that reportedly sparked deadly protests in Libya and Egypt is said to have duped actors into believing they were ma...

Egypt is voting for a second day in its historic presidential election, the first such free vote in the country's history. The vote - held 15 month...

Egyptians are voting in the country’s first free presidential elections, 15 months after Hosni Murbarak's stranglehold on the country was dissolved ...

Egypt has recalled its envoy from Syria as the government continues a campaign of violence against civilians who oppose President Bashar al-Assad's ru...

A British woman is being held in Egypt because of her links to a non-profit group accused of causing unrest, according to reports on Friday. The As...

Three protesters have now been killed after riots broke out in both the coastal city of Suez and Cairo in response to violent clashes at a football ma...

Up to 400 people have been injured in Cairo in renewed violence between security forces and protesters angered by the deaths of 74 fans at a football ...

Gloomy weeks for the western world: the elections in Egypt and Russia threaten to transform the Arab spring as well as the hoped for political thaw with Moscow into an icy winter.

More than 60% of eligible voters turned out to vote in the first round of Egypt's recent elections, according to officials. The poll, which was the...

At 15 I made the life-changing decision to run away from home, when I realised my parents intended to have me marry a man I had never met. The fate that befell my four older sisters - who were all trapped in volatile marriages - was something I simply could not stomach nor contemplate.

Egyptians have taken to the polls for the country’s first elections since the fall of Mubarak’s regime in February. Reports suggest that queue...

The United Nations has called for an independent investigation into the killing of protesters in Egypt as violence in the capital continues to rage. ...

The army and the people are certainly no longer one. Indeed the euphoria of Egypt's 25 January uprising has been replaced by fears that one repressive rule has simply been replaced with another.