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Professor Robert Springborg, a recent retiree from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate school in Monterey and an expert on Egypt and its military, spoke to students in Ronald Tutor Campus Center Tuesday afternoon about the structure and role of the Egyptian military during and after the revolution in 2011 that deposed former president Hosni Mubarak.

A new Egyptian law that prevents third parties from challenging contracts made with the government may encourage foreign investors but critics say it will increase scope for corruption.

When French Egyptologist Olivier Perdu saw a fragment of a pharaonic statue on display in a Brussels gallery last year, he assumed it was a twin of an ancient masterpiece he had examined in Egypt a quarter of a century earlier.

An Egyptian court on Tuesday postponed the trial of ousted president Mohamed Morsi and 35 others charged with espionage to April 28, while also ordering a media blackout on upcoming trial sessions.

Egyptian prosecutors have detained the controversial belly dancer and singer Sama al-Masri pending an investigation into an unlicensed television channel allegedly owned by her Al Arabiya reproted.

Earlier this year, she launched a satellite station called "Feloul," a pejorative term used to refer to supporters of longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, who was toppled in 2011.

MANY people argue that it would have been better if the Arab spring had never happened.

The former army general who toppled Egypt's first freely elected president will face a leftist politician in next month's presidential election , as they were the only candidates to enter before nominations closed, the committee organizing the vote said on Sunday.

In 2011, the clerical intellects in Egypt proposed that the pyramids be destroyed because they were idolatrous reminders of Egypt's pre-Islamic past.

The Egyptian jihadist group Ajnad Misr released its first video today to its Facebook and Twitter pages.

The Bahraini Arabic language newspaper al-Wasat reported on April 9 that a Cairo court began to consider a case brought by an Egyptian lawyer against Qatar accusing it of being soft on terrorism.

Sen. John McCain has advocated a tough stance toward Russia over the Ukraine crisis.

Sexual violence against women has been rife since the 2011 uprising in Egypt, where hundreds of female protesters have been the target of attack with apparent impunity, rights groups said Wednesday.

MANY people argue that it would have been better if the Arab spring had never happened.

Former Egyptian finance minister Youssef Boutros Ghali was released following his arrest in Paris on an international warrant over corruption charges from his time in Hosni Mubarak's government, a judicial source said on Wednesday.

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A picture taken on April 12, 2014 shows a poster bearing a portrait of retired army chief and presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi displayed in the Egyptian capital Cairo.

The change demanded by tens of thousands of people in Tahrir Square more than three years ago came quickly and subsided even faster.

Former Egyptian finance minister Youssef Boutros Ghali was detained in Paris on Monday on an international warrant over corruption charges relating to his time in former President Hosni Mubarak's government, the state news agency reported.

Egypt plans to boost electricity prices for the richest 20 percent of its citizens before the presidential elections at the end of May, as the country has 'no time to waste' in starting reforms, the planning minister said.