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CAIRO: Prominent Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah will stand trial on March 23 for allegedly participating in a violent protest, state media reported yesterday, amid concerns the military-installed regime is increasingly stifling dissent.

While there was a heavy police presence, officers didn't violently disperse the young protesters from the "Barakat!" group like they did in similar demonstrations earlier this month.

Australian journalist Peter Greste of Al Jazeera and his colleagues stand inside the defendants' cage during their trial for allegedly supporting the Muslim Brotherhood at Cairo's Tora prison on Mar. 5. Not one but two ousted presidents are on trial.

Leftist presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi says he doubts Egypt's army chief will bring democracy if elected, citing alleged rights abuses since he toppled the country's first democratically chosen leader.

The former chief of staff of Egypt's military says he will not run for president, leaving a leftist politician as the only serious candidate to run against the nation's military chief.

It took our agency to notify the Egyptian security personnel at the embassy in Washington D.C. that Hamas uses lanterns inside their tunnels... Last week Medea Benjamin of Code Pink was stopped at Cairo's airport by Egyptian security and ultimately deported to Turkey to be sent on her way home.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak speaks to American Friends of Magen David Adom at a dinner in Palm Beach.

Remember when President Obama called for the ouster of longtime U.S. supported dictator, Hosni Mubarak, and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton quickly endorsed Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood party as the democratic government of Egypt with a $3 billion check? A year later Mohamed Morsi, was thrown out of office and jailed by the military coup ... (more)

A home-made bomb exploded in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo on Tuesday, Reuters reported, citing security sources and the website of the local Al-Ahram newspaper.

Coordinated between representatives in Cairo, Milan and London, Zawia also produces a series of collaborative events on architecture, design and urbanism, while basing its publication in Egypt.

An Egyptian former chief of staff has said he survived an assassination attempt by unknown assailants, a claim brushed off by the Ministry of Interior as "mere elections publicity".

The recent Ukrainian Maidan mobilizations are a grotesque caricature of the mass protests of workers and youth in Egypt that led to the demise of the U.S.-backed dictator, Hosni Mubarak.

In this April 1, 2011 photo, activist Ahmed Douma chants slogans during a march to Tahrir Square demanding the prosecution of members of former President Hosni Mubarak's regime in Cairo, Egypt.

From Egypt to Pakistan, the whole Islamic region to India's north and west is in the process of a great churning, writes Krishnan Srinivasan The whole Muslim region to India's north and west, from Egypt to Pakistan, is in the process of a great churning, along with an extraordinary combination of ironies.

His name is Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi and by late April 2014 the highly-regarded 59-year-old field marshal could be Egypt's next president.

What happens when the United States government participates meaningfully in toppling foreign governments in the name of spreading democracy? That behavior usually results in unintended consequences and often produces disasters.

At his office in downtown Cairo, defense lawyer Mahmoud Belal chain-smokes Marlboro Reds and gulps cups of bitter Turkish coffee - fuel to help him juggle constant phone calls and pleas for help amid a vast government crackdown on dissent.

Saudi Arabia's listing of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization and the withdrawal of the Saudi, Kuwaiti and Bahrain ambassadors from Qatar signal a big geopolitical realignment in the Middle East.

Which Stock Markets Have Soared By Double-Digit Percentages in 2014? With the S&P 500 trading at just about the same level as it started in 2014, it has been hardly a gangbuster year for the U.S. stock market.

French photographer of Egyptian origins, Myriam Abdelaziz was born in Cairo, a city that would later be home to the Revolution of 25 of January in 2011.