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File photo of Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi taken on May 14, 2014. (Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

Egypt: Sisi to be sworn in by Adly Mansour

by Ahmed Imbabi | May 30, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will take Egypt’s oath of office before his predecessor interim President Adly Mansour, in his capacity as the head of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court, presidential legal adviser Ali Awad said on Thursday. In...

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Supporters of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak prepare to cut his birthday cake outside the Maadi Military Hospital in Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday, May 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egypt court bans Mubarak-era figures from elections

by Mohamed Hassan Shaban | May 7, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—An Egyptian court on Tuesday banned members of ousted former president Hosni Mubarak’s outlawed National Democratic Party (NDP) from standing for elections. The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters ruled that former NDP members are ineligible to run...

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In this Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012 file photo, an Egyptian election worker shows his colleagues an invalid ballot while counting ballots at the end of the second round of a referendum on a disputed constitution drafted by Islamist supporters of president Mohammed Morsi at a polling station in Giza, Egypt. (AP)

Egyptian Court Postpones Elections

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 7, 2013 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt’s controversial legislative elections, due to begin next month, have been postponed by a court ruling only two weeks after Egypt’s largest opposition coalition announced it would boycott them. The elections for the lower house of Egypt’s...