Today, President Mohammed Morsi annulled the decree that gave him sweeping and incontestable powers, in which he denied the judicial system the power to overturn any of his decrees. He insists that the referendum on the draft constitution will go…
The growing unrest in Egypt continues to escalate, even as President Morsi seems determined to stay the course. Sticks and stones turn into tanks and molotov cocktails, women report they are being attacked by state-paid rapists for participating in…
At least seven people have been killed and more than 770 injured in clashes outside the presidential palace in Cairo. At least five tanks were deployed outside the Egyptian presidential palace in a street where supporters and opponents of President…
Tuesday, Dec. 4 - Egyptian police faced ten thousand protesters outside President Mohamed Morsi’s palace in Cairo on Tuesday, prompting the Islamist leader to escape during the early moments of the demonstration, which moved from Tahrir Square today to…
There were no great expectations in recent days that Egypt’s new constitution, drawn up in haste by Islamist ideologues, would be a portent of hope for the Egyptian people. Considering that Morsi’s majority victory at the polls last May was…
Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi may have taken one step too many in his push to impose the Muslim Brotherhood’s version of Islam on the Egyptian people. By taking sweeping steps to empower himself, and putting himself above the law and…
CAIRO (AP) — The same chants used against Hosni Mubarak were turned against his successor Tuesday as more than 200,000 people packed Egypt’s Tahrir Square in the biggest challenge yet to Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. The massive, flag-waving throng protesting…
The Supreme Judicial Council, Egypt’s highest judicial authority, has criticised President Mohamed Morsi’s move to grant himself sweeping new powers that would protect his decisions from being challenged as an “unprecedented attack”.In an emergency meeting on Saturday, the council urged…
Next to the American people themselves, Israel is no doubt the biggest immediate loser in the U.S. presidential election. President Obama’s foreign policy is predicated on the false notion that the U.S. and Israel themselves are the principal causes of…