Since the Arab Spring, Egypt’s fledgling democracy has regressed. Now the country needs a new social contract
Two Coptic churches were attacked on Palm Sunday.
Egypt is enraged after footage showed 21 handcuffed hostages in orange jumpsuits being beheaded by black-suited captors on a beach.
Cairo police are now searching for two men on a motorbike who opened fire on guests at a church wedding, killing four including an eight-year-old.
Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox church has chosen a new pope with the hope that he would help protect the Middle East’s biggest Christian community.
The anti-Islam film that has triggered rioting across the Muslim world was produced by a US religious group and reportedly directed by a pornographer.
Egypt’s fashionable and rich elite fear a victory for the Muslim Brotherhood and hardline Salafis in the first phase of parliamentary elections.
Cairo is under curfew after 24 people, mostly Coptic Christians, died in clashes with security forces in the deadliest violence since Mubarak’s fall.
It started with a Christian woman who wanted a divorce to marry her Muslim lover, and found no other way to do so but to convert to Islam.
Sectarian clashes killed at least 13 people in Cairo on Wednesday as old regime diehards attacked pro-democracy protesters.
Egypt was on high alert on Monday ahead of the Coptic Christmas holiday following a New Year’s Day church bombing that killed 21 people.