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Awad: 50-member constitution committee to be formed in days 27 Aug 2013 | 07:33 pm
Ali Awad, presidential adviser for constitutional affairs and rapporteur for the constitution amendment committee, said formation of the 50-member committee tasked with reviewing amendments will be ma...
Brotherhood considers recognizing 30 June's demands 27 Aug 2013 | 06:21 pm
The Muslim Brotherhood is considering recognizing the demands of 30 June protests while also apologizing for toppled President Mohamed Morsy's mistakes, Egypt Independent has learned, The step is bei...
Beblawy slams Erdogan's remarks on Al-Azhar Sheikh 27 Aug 2013 | 05:40 pm
Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawy denounced the remarks of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan attacking the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar for his support of the ouster of President Mohamed Morsy. B...
Evangelicals support keeping Islam as source of legislation 27 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
A leading figure in Egypt's embattled Christian community has defended the place of Islamic Sharia in Egypt's under-construction Constitution. Priest Andrea Zaki, Vice-President of the Evangelical Ch...
Stock market loses LE800 million, down 0.44 percent 26 Aug 2013 | 07:57 pm
The Egyptian Stock Exchange has declined after another fraught day's trading at close on Monday. The benchmark EGX 30 index, which tracks the performance of the exchange's top 30 companies, went d...
Nour Party warily joins constitutional amendment process 26 Aug 2013 | 06:39 pm
Egypt's Salafi-oriented Nour Party said its participation in the constitution amendment committee meant it would defend articles relating to Islamic identity, meanwhile expressing hopes that disputed ...
Explosive charge goes off in North Sinai, no injuries 26 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
An explosive charge went off early on Monday on the Rafah-Arish road near al-Malta village following the passage of a group of army armored vehicles, a security source told the DPA news agency. No in...
Erdogan not familiar with term “revolution”: Egypt official 26 Aug 2013 | 05:29 pm
Ahmed al-Muslemany, media advisor to interim President Adly Mansour, described Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as “a prisoner of the military coups in his [own] country.” Meslamani tol...
Constitutional committee submits draft to president 25 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
Ali Awad, presidential adviser for constitutional affairs and rapporteur for the constitution amendment committee, has handed a draft constitution to Interim President Adly Mansour, sources from the S...
Constitutional draft adds ruling on Egyptian flag 25 Aug 2013 | 07:16 pm
The panel responsible for amending Egypt's 2012 Constitution made on Saturday a last minute amendment to their draft. The 10-person panel of legal experts and constitutional lawyers added a provis...
