EGYPT popularity and EGYPT trends

Israeli analysts are bracing for the prospect of a less-friendly Egypt, especially if Mohamed Morsi, the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, is elected president.

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood is reaching out to rivals including politicians knocked out of the presidential race in an attempt to rally support around its own candidate who faces a runoff against Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq.

The Muslim Brotherhood said on Friday its candidate in Egypt’s first free presidential vote would fight a run-off next month with exair force chief Ahmed Shafiq, the last PM of deposed leader Hosni Mubarak.

PRELIMINARY results from Egypt's presidential election show Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi and former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq have won the top two spots and advanced to next month's runoff.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood calls allies to back its presidential candidate in a likely run-off against Hosni Mubarak's last PM to "save" the uprising.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood calls for talks to "save" the uprising ahead of a run-off in the country's first-ever free presidential election.

CAIRO  - Egypt looks set for a run-off presidential vote between the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Mursi and Mubarak-era minister Ahmed Shafiq, pitting Islamists who helped oust the dictator against his last premier. The official MENA news agency reported partial results showing Mursi leading with 1.82 million votes, followed by Shafiq with 1.78 million votes and a surprise showing by ...

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Egypt is facing a presidential run-off vote between the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood and a former regime apparatchik.

The candidate of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood won a spot in a run-off in the presidential election, according to partial results Friday.

It has raised questions, relevant all over the developed world, about how much is owed to the impoverished migrants who manage to sneak in

Early results from Egypt's presidential election point to a bruising runoff race that threatens to squeeze Egypt's fragile democracy between two deeply antagonistic opposing ideologies.

With votes counted from about 12,800 of roughly 13,100 polling stations, Mursi had 25 percent, Shafiq 23%, a rival Islamist Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh 20%, leftist Hamdeen Sabahy 19%.

Mohamed Morsi is said to be ahead in early counting in a result that will pit him against Ahmed Shafiq, a former military man, in the second round

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood predicted Friday that its presidential candidate will contest a run-off vote with a former regime figure.

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood said on Friday its candidate was leading the early count in Egypt's first free presidential election that exposed a rift in the nation between supporters of Islamists and backers of men who served deposed autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

The Muslim Brotherhood said today its candidate was leading the early count in Egypt's first free presidential election that exposed a rift in the nation between supporters of Islamists and backers of men who served deposed autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today commended the Egyptian authorities for their organization of the country’s presidential elections and the people of Egypt for their participation.

Voters have gone to the polls to elect a president after the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's rule. But doubts remain about Egypt's future.

Netanyahu slams fiery comments made by MKs at Tel Aviv protest against illegal infiltrators, says issue will be resolved "in a responsible manner"; Rivlin: Government must find solution for migrants, residents.

YouTube has launched a Human Rights channel, with non-profit partner Witness and video playlist creator Storyful, the company announced Thursday…

CAIRO — Ahmed Shafiq, Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, makes no apology for his service to a leader toppled by last year’s popular uprising. Now a presidential candidate himself, Shafiq has vowed to restore the security of the old order. Read full article >>

We will have to swallow very hard and do our utmost to show restraint in the face of Egyptian hostility.

In Egypt, on every street and in every alleyway, there has been one topic of serious debate over the past few weeks: today's presidential elections, the country's first of any suspense or consequence. Figures from Egypt's formerly quasi-underground opposition stare down from billboards blanketing the country. Leading civilian candidates debate on television for the first time in Egypt and the...

In the most historic event the country has seen since the Arab Spring revolution began last year, vast queues built up outside 13000 polling stations across as eager voters prepared to choose their next president.

DUBAI, May 23 (Reuters) - Growth capital and buyout funds from the wealthy Gulf Arab region are being drawn towards Turkey's stable and growing economy at the expense of countries like Egypt and...

Egypt's presidential campaign has been full of startling moments.

In the most historic event the country has seen since the Arab Spring revolution began last year, vast queues built up outside 13000 polling stations across as eager voters prepared to choose their next president.

The presidential election in Egypt on May 23 and 24, the first since the resignation of Mohamed Hosni Mubarak in February last year, has attracted widespread attention as the result will determine the country's future direction after the "Arab Spring".

Over 52 million Egyptians will vote to choose their president in the first-ever competitive elections to be held on Wednesday.

Amr Moussa (75):a former Egyptian diplomat who served in mis- sions in Switzerland, India and the UN and held the position of foreign minister from 1991-2001. He became popular in Egypt and the wider Arab world because of his criticism of Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians. During 2000, a song entitled I Hate Israel with the refrain, “I love Amr Moussa” became a hit in Egypt, apparent...

Exclusive, behind-the-scenes photos of the men who want to rule Egypt.

As presidential voting starts, many in Egypt wish for a return to stability in politics and the economy.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate panel has approved a foreign aid budget for next year that cuts U.S. assistance to Pakistan and Egypt....

A viewpoint on the Egypt election by a supporter of the old regime

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Military soldiers beat and tortured protesters they arrested at a demonstration near the Defense Ministry on May 4, 2012, Human Rights Watch said today, after interviews with numerous victims and lawyers. The military also failed to protect the protesters from attacks by armed groups in the early morning hours of May 2, at the sa...

If there were a prize for most topical movie at the Cannes Film Festival, it would go to Egyptian entry "After the Battle," whose completion, its director says, is a political act in itself.

A motorboat injured a Russian tourist from St. Petersburg in Egypt's Sharm-el-Sheikh

An administrative court determined that the election’s May 23 starting date had been wrongly set, but legal experts said the ruling was expected to have little effect.

World War II RAF Kittyhawk fighter plane found in the Sahara Desert.

Palestinians would see funding withheld if they made any agreement with Hamas, didn't actively work to end incitement.

Noch halten sie sich lieber an der Hand ihrer berühmten Eltern fest, in Sachen Style aber sind Star-Kids wie Egypt Daoud Dean schon ganz eigen

With a third of 2012 now behind us, the winners and losers among the world's benchmark stock markets are starting to emerge.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's foreign reserves rose slightly last month, central bank data showed on Sunday, their first gain since a popular uprising unseated the country's autocratic leader and sent the economy into a tailspin.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A senior International Monetary Fund official said Wednesday the fund remains willing to consider a much-needed $3.2 billion aid package for Egypt but is waiting for sufficient consensus from political leaders in Cairo....

A Saudi diplomat in Egypt told local dailies that Egyptian security services foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Cairo.

IT’S BEEN FIVE weeks since the Obama administration granted Egypt its full $1.3 billion in annual military aid despite its government’s failure to meet conditions set by Congress for advancing democracy. In granting a waiver on national security grounds, administration officials argued that continuing the funding was more likely to encourage cooperation with the United States and progress on hu...

Governments of both Egypt and Israel have been trying to prevent a political crisis since Egypt cancelled a contract to supply Israel with gas.

WEMBLEY, England (AP) -- Brazil will start its bid for a first Olympic gold medal against Egypt....

Egypt’s interim government canceled the national cup competition, ending all soccer in the country this season.

Egyptian officials: The decision is commercial, not political.

Much has been said about the role social media has come to play in the global landscape over the last few years. Whether one sees it as the tool of revolutions or not, Facebook, Twitter, and other media played an integral role in organizing the socio-political upheavals in Egypt, Libya, and across the Middle East and North Africa, allowing those oppressed and marginalized by despotic regimes to...

Alexandria was once Egypt’s city of outsiders—a center of Hellenic culture that became a Christian capital second only to Rome and the home of a large and thriving Jewish community. It was an outsider, Lawrence Durrell, who wrote the great saga of the city, “The . . . (Subscription required.)

Many artists hoped that the collapse of Hosni Mubarak's regime would signal a radical shift from fluff to substantive fare. They are still waiting.CAIRO — When filmmaker and Egyptian democracy activist Amr Salama watched Hosni Mubarak's regime collapse in 2011, he couldn't have been more heartened. Salama had been making films for years and had found himself hamstrung by the government's censor...

... We suggest this one: our second take on the role of the Web and social media in the revolutions in the Middle East. Last year we sent a talented and perceptive writer, John Pollock, to Egypt and Tunisia to investigate the role social media really played in the beginning of the Arab Spring. Today we publish John's follow-up on the subject: an inside look at how civilians in Libya us...

Tennis:Ireland beat 2-1 Malta in their opening Pool A match of the Federation Cup Euro/Africa Zone Group III round robin event in the Golf El Solaimaneyah Club outside Cairo in Egypt.

China will provide an aid worth $19.3 million to Egypt in a support of the latter's economic projects.

The Pharaohs were able to narrowly defeat the Super Eagles in Thursday's highly contested game in the United Arab Emirates

The ruling followed complaints by political groups and constitutional experts over the parliament's decision to give Islamist lawmakers half the seats on the panel

Your humble blogger is busy going into carbohydrate withdrawal celebrating Passover this week.  I blogged about the international relations implications of this holiday a few years ago -- but that was pre-Arab Spring.  This (and a few glasses of kosher wine) got me to thinking:  what would happen if the event that inspires the Passover holiday -- the Exodus -- were to happen today?  With ap...

This year's holiday falls on a day of enormous significance in the struggle for freedom in modern Egypt, and reminds us that it's a fight deeply linked to Jews'.Sundown Friday marks the beginning of Passover, the commemoration of the Jews' emancipation from enslavement in ancient Egypt.

pigrabbitbear writes "The recent web pornography ban in Egypt has raised questions about the evils of censorship (and porn) and the changing tide of popular attitude of Egyptians. It perhaps reflects the emerging influence of more conservative Muslim elements in government, a shift . Apparently the same ban was passed 3 years ago but was not enforced because their filtering system was not effec...

Andrew Robinson discovers gems in a grand overview of ancient Egypt and the life of a pioneer in Egyptology.

A congressional delegation traveling in Egypt raised a few eyebrows Monday when it met with Khayrat el-Shater, the Muslim Brotherhood ’s new presidential candidate in the country’s 2012 presidential race. Read full article >>

Two decorated covers of coffins that once contained mummies have been seized by Israeli authorities, authenticated and dated to thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt. [More]

A NEW Egypt needs room to breathe.

CAIRO (AP) -- An Egyptian court has ordered the government to ban pornographic Internet websites in order to protect society and its values....

Goodspeed Analysis: Egypt lurched toward another crisis Monday as the Islamists that dominate parliament tightened their grip on the country and moved to seize control of the assembly that will write Egypt’s next constitution

Amateur footage shows riots in Port Said in Egypt over the two-season ban of football club Al-Masry.

The opening of Tutankhamen's tomb in Egypt in 1922 by Howard Carter and his patron Lord Carnarvon is the most famous archaeological discovery of all time, with the possible exception of the excavation of Pompeii in the 18th century. On the 50th anniversary, in 1972, this discovery provided Britain's first “blockbuster” exhibition at the British Museum—visited by many of us as schoolchildren, in...

The political tremors of the last year have not helped Egypt's reputation as a holiday destination. But Fleur Chavasse finds much to enjoy - if few other people - in Alexandria and Luxor.

Prosecutors in Egypt have charged 75 people with murder and negligence in connection with the deaths of 74 football fans during riots at a match in Port Said last month.

Release Time:  For Immediate Release Oval Office 10:53 A.M. EST PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Well, I want to welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu and the entire Israeli delegation back to the White House, back to the Oval Office.  This visit obviously comes at a critical time.  We are seeing incredible changes that are taking place in the ...

Revolution-torn Egypt led the recovery with a stock market jump of 15 per cent in February alone, while flood-stricken Thailand also bounced back with a rise of nearly 10 per cent last month.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has decided to lift a travel ban preventing American pro-democracy activists from leaving the country, judicial sources said on Wednesday, a move that is likely to defuse a standoff that has plunged U.S.-Egyptian ties into a crisis.

Domestic carmaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group will begin assembling cars in Egypt in the third quarter of this year for sale locally and in nearby markets across Africa and the Middle East.

Last week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation profiled FinFisher and Amesys, two of the companies that had been caught selling network spying tools to despotic regimes around the world, including Hosni Mubarak's Egypt and Muammar Qaddafi's Libya. This week, EFF continues the series with profiles of Italy's Area SpA (which sells electronic tracking software to Bashar [...]

Egyptian officials are working to resolve a diplomatic feud over American NGOs, Sen. McCain said during a visit to Egypt.

Two U.S. senators say they are "very optimistic' for a quick resolution to the case of U.S. workers held in Cairo.

One year on from the revolution, Nigel Richardson returns to the land of the pharaohs to see what's changed.

Authoritarian rulers have long viewed pro-democracy groups financed by the United States with deep suspicion, but never has a government gone as far as Egypt’s.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian telecoms magnate Naguib Sawiris wants to get back on the acquisition trail, eyeing businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa after selling a chunk of assets to Russia's Vimpelcom.

FOUR people have been killed and more than 1000 injured during fresh clashes on the streets of Egypt as public anger mounts at the ruling military over the deaths of dozens of soccer fans at a recent game.

Nearly 400 demonstrators were injured after Egyptian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets as thousands gathered outside the Interior Ministry, near Tahrir Square.

IT WAS inevitable that blame would immediately be heaped on Egypt’s army for the tragedy in Port Said. Rightly or wrongly. Whether it was a case of being deliberately engineered by the army, or, more likely, a product of its incompetent inaction. Everything in chaotic, violent Egypt, stalled between revolution and counter-revolution, is essentially political, revolving around the role of the ar...

PORT SAID, Egypt (Reuters) - Seventy-four people were killed when supporters clashed at an Egyptian soccer match, prompting fans and politicians on Thursday to turn on the ruling army for failing to prevent the deadliest incident since Hosni Mubarak was ousted.

Here's a list of the deadliest matches in soccer history.

At least 74 people were killed and hundreds injured after soccer fans rushed the field in the seaside city of Port Said Wednesday following an upset victory by the home team over Egypt's top club, setting off clashes and a stampede as riot police largely failed to intervene.

A medic in a morgue in Port Said, Egypt, says 35 people have been killed in violence following a soccer match.

Under the watchful eye of the 30-year-old singer, the adorable boy tottered around, fascinated by his surroundings.

A group of 25 Chinese workers kidnapped in the north of Egypt's Sinai peninsula have been freed, China's state media and an official said.

This has been a tournament that has restored the joy to African soccer. Without the traditional powers of Cameroon, Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt, it is as if a great weight both of expectation and fear has been lifted. Only Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana are playing with the albatross of favoritism around their necks, and both have been notably cautious in their opening matches; everybody else seem...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- The Hamas prime minister's office says the Gaza premier will be visiting Iran as part of his tour of Muslim countries next week....

Standing on a large floor map in a Jeddah art gallery, Hamza Serafi places a yellow sign inscribed "Caution: revolution (take 2)" over Egypt and then turns to Saudi Arabia.  

Egypt has asked the IMF for $3.2-billion in support as its interim Cabinet seeks to fill a budget gap widened by political and economic turmoil.

A TEACHER has died five days after getting into difficulty during a snorkelling trip in Egypt

Wigan and Norwich are the first clubs to express an interest in taking Egypt star Mohamed Nagy, 27, until the end of the season.

The thing I like most about this mashup is that it's superficially just a mashup of the most popular music of 2011, but it also manages to be a statement on some of the most important events of 2011: the protests from Egypt and Libya to OWS Maybe it's hard We will never be never be broken and scarred There's no way I'm turning back oh oh oh oh Here's the situation Got this feeling t...

Day 13 was our last in India, and we can easily say…. This has been THE BEST trip we have ever taken!!!! Everything about India has been magical and majestic. Those are the two best words to describe our experience here. This is a country so rich in history, which we love. And, much like Egypt, a lot [...]

The challenges in Libya are far greater than those faced by its neighbours in Tunisia and Egypt

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Ancient manuscripts were lost to the ages this weekend as fire consumed Cairo's "Temple of Knowledge"—a "huge shock" to Egyptologists.

Egyptian military and police have lashed out at young protesters over the past several days with vengeance. The clashes began on Friday in front of the Ministry Building, which is visible from Tahrir Square. Protesters have been camped in front of the building since the Tahrir protests of November, which… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

Oh, the things Bruno Frohlich can scan. Ancient whale skulls. Smashed human ones. Stradivarius violins. Violas. Cellos. Guitars. Stringed instruments from Mongolia. Apollo spacesuits. Eagle feathers. Mummified birds from Egypt oddly missing their heads... from the Washington Post (Registration Required)

DUBAI (Reuters) - The first cinematic output covering protests in Egypt and Tunisia this year recreates the euphoria of revolutions that many thought would never happen, but reveals signs of the conflicts that lay ahead over Islamist groups.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Around 1,000 Egyptians rallied near the ancient pyramids on Friday to protest against what they said were threats by Islamic radicals to undermine tourism, one of the country's...

DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar's 2022 World Cup organizing committee has donated $400,000 to famine victims in Somalia from the match proceeds collected at the November 14 international friendly between Brazil and Egypt which was staged before a 25,000 strong crowd in Doha.

Richard Dorment reviews the Ashmolean's new galleries dedicated to the age of the pharaohs.

Voting has begun in Egypt's first parliamentary elections since the removal from power nine month ago of authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak.

Unrest in Egypt also hits iconic travel company that made its name 170 years ago sending holidaymakers to the Land of the Pharaohs

Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's cuts Egypt's sovereign debt rating, pushing it further into junk status.

Three American students studying in Cairo have been arrested for allegedly throwing firebombs at police during the protests in Tahrir Square ...

Hosni Mubarak is gone, but the military’s grip is still tight, and sectarian unrest is growing. Egypt, the world’s largest Arab nation, historically secular and allied with the West, has slipped back into tyranny - and the West is asleep.

Freedom of political speech is what distinguishes Canada from, say the Egypt of 2010, but that shouldn’t mean the right to set up tents and lavatories for months on end in public parks and squares

Last year on his show, Bill Maher joked that we should send Elisabeth Hasselbeck to Egypt in exchange for Lara Logan, the CBS News reporter who was raped there. Cut to this morning on The View, Elisabeth picked out the bone shoved up her ass and tried to slap Bill's hands with it for offending her so. Elisabeth kept yapping and yapping like yorkie trying to j...

An exhibition at the Doges' Palace in Venice shows how the city-state rose to empire by exploiting a unique relationship.

Eleven Hungarian tourists are killed and 27 injured in Egypt as their bus overturns in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada.

"He'll find the thing that he's passionate about and wants to change," the singer says of Egypt, her son with Swizz Beatz

A serial entrepreneur in the early years of the Internet, Hanan Abdel Meguid is guiding the next generations of start-ups on how to turn ideas into commercially viable businesses.

One year ago, at the suggestion of my editors at Foreign Policy, I established a Twitter account associated with my blog, Turtle Bay. I obliged the request, but as a longtime newspaper reporter, I was skeptical that having access to a series of 140 character missives would change the way I report the news. Simply put, I was wrong. I've been covering the United Nations for over ...

After award winning work at Richmond.com, Jon Lumpkin has left to join Skip Hoagland's Domains New Media where he will help build a new site on Alexandria.com. The project will serve two cities that share the same name. Lumpkin will work on Alexandria, Virginia while Gastón Piarrette develops a corresponding site for Alexandria, Egypt.