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Beleaguered Coptic business tycoon and liberal icon Naguib Sawiris accused by Islamic fundamentalist attorney of profiting from close association ‎with ousted Mubarak regime.

Ali Ismail, a lawyer for Egyptian Islamist movement Al-Jamaa Al-‎Islamiya, has lodged a complaint ..

Christian businessman and founder of The Free Egyptians Party will face charges of disrespecting Islam for tweeting a controversial image of Mickey and Minnie Mouse wearing conservative Muslim attire.

The Prosecution Office of Central Cairo decided to refer outspoken bil..

Two newly-elected members of parliament of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, FJP, launch a scathing attack on high-profile Coptic Christian ‎businessman Naguib Sawiris.

Two Freedom and Justice..

Naguib Sawiris

The eldest of three prominent Coptic Christian brothers at fifty-six years of age, Naguib Sawiris first began investing in Egypt’s nascent telecom industry in the early 1990s. This strategy soon made..

On 6 February 2011, Egypt’s hastily appointed Vice President Omar Suleiman invited in the old guard or what we could call the Businessmen’s Wing of the Muslim Brothers into a stately meeting in the polished rosewood Cabinet Chamber of Mubarak’s Presidential Palace...

When the Egyptian Uprising of 2011 began, we heard media pundits, friends, and colleagues milling about in search of apt metaphors to describe the mass protests and revolution in Egypt. In so far as “history” was mobilized in these discussions, it was generally as repetition or analogy. Hence: t..