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Topic: Egypt

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March 25, 2013
10:56 pm

Ada Aharoni, sitting on the right among volunteers, is the author of “The Golden Age of the Jews From Egypt." (Courtesy of Ada Aharoni via JTA)

Egyptian Jews record more recent ‘second Exodus’

Fearing new Islamist leaders are trying to blot out their history, authors of a new book compile their own story

By Cnaan Liphshiz

March 25, 2013
5:32 pm

Egyptian soldiers ride an armored personnel carrier (APC) along the border with Israel. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Egypt arrests 25 Hamas and al-Qaeda operatives in Sinai

Terrorists found in possession of weapons, ammunition and photos of strategic installations

By Ron Friedman

March 25, 2013
7:50 am

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Mubarak may walk if not convicted of new charges

Egypt’s justice minister says 84-year-old former president, whose life sentence was overturned in January, could go free in April

By Ilan Ben Zion

March 24, 2013
6:38 pm

A TV reporter holds up one of the yellow locusts that landed in southern Israel on Sunday (photo credit: image capture from Channel 2)

Fertile locusts swarm into Israel on Passover eve

Arriving with Biblically resonant timing, latest arrivals are ready to reproduce

By Aaron Kalman

March 24, 2013
11:55 am

Amir Omar Hassan (photo credit: Channel 2 screenshot)

Family of Israeli held in Egypt remain optimistic

‘Usually, these things end well,’ says brother of Amir Omar Hassan, who was kidnapped by Bedouin on Friday

By Adiv Sterman and Times of Israel staff

March 23, 2013
9:24 pm

Egyptian protesters set tires on fire during clashes between supporters and opponents of Egypt’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood near the Islamist group’s headquarters in Cairo, Friday. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

After violence, Egypt groups blame each other

Brotherhood holds opposition and ‘thugs’ responsible for worst clashes yet; liberal groups point fingers at Morsi

By Aya Batrawy

March 23, 2013
6:16 pm

A Sunni gunman takes aim during clashes that erupted on Syria Street, which divides the areas between Sunnis and Alawites, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon in June. (photo credit: AP)

Members of Assad’s own sect convene against him

Alawite meeting in Cairo is first of its kind for community members opposed to Syrian president

March 23, 2013
5:50 pm

Egypt negotiating to free kidnapped tourists

Arab Israeli man and Norwegian woman, currently held in desolate mountainous area in Sinai, may be released soon

By Times of Israel staff and AP

March 22, 2013
7:16 pm

Egyptian anti-riot soldiers stand guard in front of a destroyed banner of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, March 22, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Clashes outside Muslim Brotherhood offices leave over 100 injured

Egyptian protesters skirmish with riot police and president’s supporters in largest demonstrations against ruling party

March 21, 2013
3:29 pm

An Egyptian protester chants anti-Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi slogans outside the presidential palace under a banner with a defaced picture of president Mohammed Morsi and Arabic that reads 'the people want to bring down the regime,' in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood says it rejects violence

Group says it is willing to hand over members to authorities for questioning over a recent assault on activists and reporters

March 21, 2013
11:56 am

Ghassan Hitto, the Syrian opposition's newly elected interim prime minister, at a press conference in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, March 19, 2013 (photo credit: AP)

Syria’s new PM: Assad’s alternative or American puppet?

Syria divided over opposition’s Ghassan Hitto; Egyptian government faces potentially drastic cut in aid

By Michael Bassin

March 20, 2013
10:22 pm

A visibly unamused Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi at Wednesday's meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit in Cairo (photo credit: screen capture YouTube)

Egypt judges recommend dissolution of Brotherhood

Legality of President Morsi’s party has been the subject of a lengthy dispute

March 20, 2013
5:54 pm

The entrance to the Jewish cemetery in Cairo. (photo credit: CC BY dlisbona, Flickr)

Film on Egypt’s Jews cleared for showing

Commercial screenings of documentary following lives of Jewish community were delayed by censorship board