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In this file April 2011 photo, Mohamed Mursi (R) speaks, alongside other members of the Muslim Brotherhood group’s political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), during a news conference in Cairo, Egypt. (Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)

Egyptian court dissolves Muslim Brotherhood’s political party

by Mohamed Hassan Shaban | Aug 10, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court dissolved the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) in a legal ruling announced on Saturday. The ruling will prevent the party from contesting parliamentary elections expected to be held by the...

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A masked student of Al-Azhar University throws a Molotov cocktail at riot police and residents during clashes outside the university campus in Cairo’s Nasr City district on December 27, 2013. (Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

Egyptian universities look to “isolate” Muslim Brotherhood students

by Waleed Abdul Rahman | Aug 10, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egyptian universities are moving to prevent students with ties to the now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood from taking up residence in their dormitories, a ministry source has told Asharq Al-Awsat. An official within Egypt’s Ministry of Higher...

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Rebels under Ibrahim Jathran unload ammunition from a boat at the Sidra port in Ras Lanuf on March 11, 2014. (Reuters/Esam Omran Al-Fetori)

Opinion: A Necessary Step

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Aug 8, 2014 | Opinion

Recent statements about Egypt’s apparent intention to intervene in Libya caused many observers to recall the military clash between Egypt and Libya in 1977. However, today’s crisis is nothing like the one in 1977. Libya’s Col. Muammar Gaddafi was a leader who was...

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Gamal El-Ghitani: Nasser should have listened to Naguib Mahfouz

by Safaa Azab | Aug 7, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egyptian novelist, journalist and short-story writer Gamal El-Ghitani is one of the most prominent literary figures of the Arab World. A prolific writer of historical fiction and political commentary, he published his first short story when he...

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Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi (C), military personnel, and children place their hands on a detonator at an event marking the announcement of plans for a major upgrade of the Suez Canal, in Cairo, Egypt on August 5, 2014. (Reuters/Egyptian Presidency Handout)

Egypt begins project to dig new Suez Canal

by Mohamed Hassan Shaban | Aug 6, 2014 | Business

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt launched a project on Tuesday which includes building a new Suez Canal waterway in a bid to increase revenues from the trade route—a vital source of foreign currency to the country whose economy has been rocked since the overthrow of...