Egypt requested that the artifact be returned under the 1970 UNESCO Convention, which both it and the Netherlands are ...

In the spring of 2013, I visited Egypt. It had been two years since the uprisings known as the “Arab Spring” had toppled the government — and in the aftermath, an angry, conservative base ready to ...

Exactly 15 years ago, the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia prompted an unprecedented pan-Arab protest movement that demonstrated the overwhelming Arab desire for more democratic forms ...

The Netherlands has returned a 3500-year-old looted ancient sculpture to Egypt on Thursday in a historic cultural repatriation move. According to artefact experts, the sculpture consists of a ...

A 3,500-year-old stolen Egyptian sculpture that ended up in the Netherlands has been returned to Egypt. Investigation revealed that the sculpture was likely stolen from an archaeological site in the ...

CAIRO — Hosni Mubarak, the former autocratic president of Egypt, whose hold on power was broken and place in history upended by a public uprising against the poverty, corruption and repressive police ...

Egypt’s authoritarian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has pardoned nearly three dozen political prisoners, including a leader of the Arab Spring uprising that ousted then-President Hosni Mubarak in ...

Egyptian activist and writer Adelrahman ElGendy spoke at Wolf Humanities Center on Feb. 15 about his participation in the Arab Spring and subsequent imprisonment in Egypt. ElGendy reflected on his ...

Following the revolution that ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak earlier this year, the country's economy is sagging — tourism has plummeted, unemployment is soaring and poverty is spreading. In ...

ZAGAZIG, Egypt (Reuters) - When protests erupted in Cairo in 2011, liberal activist Hassan El-Erian quickly mobilised demonstrations in his hometown of Zagazig, risking arrest, or worse, to push for ...

Ousted Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, who ruled his country with an iron fist for nearly three decades, has died at age 91, state media said on Tuesday. Ousted Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, who ...