Is a new ban on unlicensed preachers and mosques meant to simply curb inflammatory sermons - or give the state a firmer grip on Islamic institutions?
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Statement released from three critics of interim government calls for open dialogue - excluding, however, those who back the '3 July coup'
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Optimism and determination dominate the last campaign event of presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi
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Some attendees of presidential contender Hamdeen Sabahi's encounter with thinkers expressed criticism of rival candidate El-Sisi's meeting with artists
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Tawfiq Saleh (1926 – 2013), a pioneer of realism in Egyptian cinema, was commemorated during the opening of a four-day conference on 'Post-2011 Cinema in Egypt' held at the AUC's film department
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The heartwarming new film Factory Girl, dedicated to the late Souad Hosny, hit cinemas this week. The movie looks into the struggles of the working class amid often bitter Egyptian realities
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Six-month investigation by the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) on the dispersal of the Rabaa Al-Adaweya protest camp on 14 August reveals that police overreacted to initial shots from Islamists
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Dispute over land in the Maspero Triangle in central Cairo has residents worried they will be driven from the neighbourhood their great-grandparents called home
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The first terrorist attack on tourists in Egypt in over a decade raises fear of escalation, as critics point to a police force in need of restructuring
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Political and economic experts differ on whether the draft constitution will help meet revolutionaries' demands for greater social justice
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Egypt's first protest reportedly authorised under the new protest law passes without major incident, seeing only minor disputes between supporters and opponents of army chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi
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Nasserist leader Hamdeen Sabbahi chosen by Revolution's Candidate campaign as potential presidential candidate to represent revolutionary current
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Sunday marks 40 years since the Egyptian victory in the October War of 1973, a day Islamists have vowed to mark with fresh protests against the July ouster of Mohamed Morsi
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Protesters gathered in Cairo to demand the release of labour lawyer Haitham Mohamadein, who awaits questioning in Suez after Thursday arrest
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Forty-three years after his death, millions still hold dear the memory of president Gamal Abdel-Nasser, whose 23 July revolution dramatically changed Egypt and the Arab world
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Eyewitnesses speak to Ahram Online about clashes that left dozens of pro-Morsi supporters killed early Saturday
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Largely forgotten by officials in Cairo, scores of Egyptians continue to languish in Israeli prisons - some of whom were reportedly detained for aiding Palestinian resistance
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Workers will march to the Shura Council on 1 May, protesting unfulfilled demands
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Residents of Al-Khosous relay to Ahram Online different versions of what actually sparked the sectarian violence that left at least 5 Copts and 1 Muslim dead in their otherwise 'peaceful town'
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Anti-Palestinian rhetoric, which has a long history in Egypt, has re-emerged recently as a result of allegations that Hamas is responsible for violent attack at the Rafah border
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