CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday announced the release of seven Egyptian security officers who had been kidnapped nearly a week ago in the lawless Sinai Desert, ending days of mounting anxiety ... Read more
Egyptian officials say soldiers and police officers mistakenly fired on a Bedouin funeral in the Sinai Peninsula during a search for kidnapped security personnel. The officials say the troops thought the ... Read more
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt sent dozens of tanks and hundreds of soldiers to Sinai on Monday as a show of force in the largely lawless area after unknown gunmen kidnapped seven Egyptian ... Read more
WASHINGTON — Countries around the world, including allies of the United States, have used laws on blasphemy and apostasy to suppress political opponents, the State Department said on Monday in an annual ... Read more
Saloua Raouda Choucair did everything in her life early, or late. Her first exhibition in Beirut in 1947 is thought to be the first-ever show of abstract art in the Arab world. She had her only ... Read more
CAIRO — Wasfi Amin Wassef used to buy and sell jewelry from his shop in Cairo’s vast Khan al-Khalili bazaar. Now he mostly buys it. Well into a third year of economic malaise following ... Read more
CAIRO — One washed towels in a barbershop. The other sold fast food. Some nights, they would grab the microphones at outdoor weddings and try out raps they had written, only to earn a hail of stones. ... Read more
CAIRO — The Egyptian authorities on Saturday released a prominent activist who had been critical of the country’s Islamist president. The activist, Ahmed Maher, had been arrested ... Read more
A prominent Egyptian activist was jailed Friday on accusations of inciting protests in front of the Interior Ministry in March, state news media said. The activist, Ahmed Maher, was arrested at the Cairo ... Read more
CAIRO — An Egyptian man stabbed an American man outside the United States Embassy in Cairo on Thursday. It was not clear why. A spokesman for the embassy, David J. Ranz, said the man who was ... Read more