Cairo (Egypt)

President Obama went to Cairo, Egypt, after he was elected. I kept the article from The Advocate-Messenger. Quoting from the Quran for emphasis, he called for a (verbatim) “New beginning between the United States and Muslims … And I consider...

Although she’d only been in Egypt for five months, Morgan Smith knew about Police Day, a two-year-old national holiday celebrated on Jan. 25.   She understood the day honored policemen who resisted British demands in 1952. But she also realized...

Fulbright English teaching assistant Morgan Smith traveled to  Alexandria, Egypt, this fall for an up-close and personal look at relics of the country’s past. But when mass protests broke out last week in Cairo, the recent Centre College graduate...

Editor’s note: The subject of this story is going by a assumed name to protect his identity, according to the Baptist Press Association. CAIRO — The long-running social and political upheaval in Egypt, which toppled the presidency of Hosni...

CAIRO — The families and colleagues of seven Egyptian soldiers who were kidnapped last week in North Sinai kept Egypt’s borders with the Gaza Strip closed Sunday for the third day in a row. Nearly 170 demonstrators have gathered inside the...

The furor over the Benghazi talking points continues. Republicans still see them as the main event in a campaign to embarrass President Obama. The president, for his part, calls them a "sideshow." Finally, on Wednesday, the White House released more...

CAIRO — His phone doesn't ring and his charts are gloomy. But every day Mostafa Ismail, a financial broker with a hangman's demeanor, steps into the Egyptian stock exchange hoping for positive blips. They are rare in a nation where revolution...

CAIRO — The retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak was postponed Saturday until June 8 after prosecutors told a Cairo criminal court that they intend to present new evidence of his responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of protesters during...

CAIRO -- Prominent youth activist Ahmed Maher was arrested on Friday as he sought to leave the Cairo international airport, members of his April 6 youth movement said. Maher, who helped lead the revolution that ousted longtime President Hosni Mubarak,...

CAIRO — An American man was stabbed by an unidentified assailant outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Thursday, officials said. The reason for the attack was not immediately clear, though Egyptian officials said it did not appear to be politically...

As you can tell by the flurry of posts, my 10 days in Egypt have inspired me to write. I’ve had an amazing experience here. My open letter to President Morsi actually earned me a reply from his assistant, who ensures me they are trying and that they...

CAIRO -- President Mohamed Morsi reshuffled his Cabinet on Tuesday, strengthening the Muslim Brotherhood’s hold on power and angering the opposition amid Egypt’s economic turmoil and political unrest. The naming of nine new ministers...