Middle East Monitor
clear
Free Subscription
Middle East Monitor

Creating new perspectives since 2009

Middle East Monitor

All Stories Archive

  • February 5, 2014

    Egyptian authorities prevent journalists from covering Morsi's trial

    Egyptian security services prevented anti-coup journalists and solicitors from attending ousted president, Mohammed Morsi’s, trial.   Sources said that Court of Appeal in Cairo decided to hold the hearing...

    News

  • February 5, 2014

    Egyptian security forces close Tahrir Square as Morsi's trial begins

    Egyptian security forces have closed Tahrir Square to vehicles and pedestrians to prevent mass protests developing in the square.   A joint Egyptian army and police force prevented cars...

    News

  • February 5, 2014

    After freeing real killers, Egypt set to prosecute elected president

    PHOTOS The Egyptian judiciary is to prosecute ousted president Mohammed Morsi, the first ever elected Egyptian president, for inciting the killing of protesters, Reuters reported on Monday. A report...

    News

  • February 5, 2014

    General Afifi denounces media blackout during Morsi's trial

    General Omar Afifi, an Egyptian political refugee in the US, has criticised Egypt’s Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi for denying media channels the right to broadcast the trial...

    News

  • February 5, 2014

    Al Awa reveals details of meeting with President Morsi

    VIDEO Mohammad Salim Al-Awa, a member of the legal committee defending Egyptian President, Mohammed Morsi, and 13 members of his government, revealed details of his half hour meeting with...

    News

  • February 5, 2014

    Egypt's generals ask for amnesty from Morsi

    A group of generals in the Egyptian army, along with the leadership of a military services branch, have met with ousted President Mohammed Morsi to launch a campaign called...

    News

  • February 5, 2014

    Aswan city absent from World Travel Market Forum

    Egypt’s Aswan city suffered a further economic setback when it failed to join the World Travel Market forum in London. The governorate officials’ negligence deprived Egypt’s tourism sector of...

    News

  • February 5, 2014

    Egypt ranks worst by foreign expats

    An economic study by HSBC Bank concluded that Egypt is the worst place to host expatriate workers. The Washington Post published the study’s results, indicating that Egypt, which ranked...

    News

  • February 5, 2014

    Salafi mentor calls for Muslim Brotherhood to be supported

    The prominent Salafi Jihadi Islamist Jordanian Palestinian leader; Issam Barqawi, better known as Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, has strongly condemned members of his movement who attacked the Muslim Brotherhood during...

    News

  • February 5, 2014

    Egypt suffers butane gas shortage

    The butane gas crisis has escalated in Egypt with the price of a barrel ranging between 60 and 70 Egyptian pounds. Egyptians have held the interim government responsible for...

    News