• What to know about Egypt’s presidential election

    What to know about Egypt’s presidential election

    Mar 27, 2018 09:24 PM EST

    trajudicial killings over the past year. The fear is that Egypt will become ungovernable, and that the country could regress to the point of violence or civil conflict, Fahmy said. “Sissi has shown everyone through this election that it is not possible to bring change through the ballot box.” This ...

  • Militants target Muslims in Egypt’s deadliest modern attack

    Militants target Muslims in Egypt’s deadliest modern attack

    Nov 24, 2017 11:50 PM EST

    ... the Egyptian press, have relatively little visibility on what goes on over there because it's a closed area to foreigners and indeed to many Egyptians. But we do know that there are ambushes against the Egyptian military and that the Egyptian military has responded with some force. So, this ...

  • Militants bomb mosque in Egypt, killing more than 200

    Militants bomb mosque in Egypt, killing more than 200

    Nov 24, 2017 02:08 PM EST

    A gun and bomb attack at a mosque in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula killed more than 200 people and injured dozens during Friday prayers. According to state-run news agency MENA, the death toll reached 235 with more than 100 injured. Police said the attack occurred at the al-Rawdah ...

  • There has been a surge in arrests of LGBTQ people in Egypt. Here's why

    There has been a surge in arrests of LGBTQ people in Egypt. Here's why

    Oct 09, 2017 09:12 PM EST

    ... combat the “spreading of AIDS in Egypt.” After an outpouring of support on social media, the men were found innocent. Homosexuality is widely unpopular in Egypt, a predominantly Muslim country. According to a 2013 Pew Research poll, 95 percent of Egyptians said society should reject homosexuality. Lawmakers in Egypt’s ...

  • Free from prison in Egypt, aid worker Aya Hijazi speaks out on her message for Sisi, meeting Trump

    Free from prison in Egypt, aid worker Aya Hijazi speaks out on her message for Sisi, meeting Trump

    May 26, 2017 11:32 PM EST

    ... but it's not normal to live out hope. And we're also hopeful. And I'm worried. JUDY WOODRUFF: What do you want for Egypt, for the people of Egypt? What do you want for them? AYA HIJAZI: We want what we call -- some may call American values. I ...

  • Exclusive: Aya Hijazi on her surprising meeting with President Trump after release from Egypt prison

    Exclusive: Aya Hijazi on her surprising meeting with President Trump after release from Egypt prison

    May 26, 2017 08:49 PM EST

    In an exclusive interview with PBS Newshour, Aya Hijazi, an Egyptian-American charity worker imprisoned in Cairo for three years, speaks about the harrowing ordeal and her experience meeting President Trump in the Oval Office following her release last month. It is her first interview since an Egyptian judge acquitted ...

  • ISIS claims responsibility for attack on Coptic Christian buses in Egypt

    ISIS claims responsibility for attack on Coptic Christian buses in Egypt

    May 26, 2017 02:45 PM EST

    ... attack the Islamic State claimed Saturday. "What you've seen today will not go unpunished. An extremely painful strike has been dealt to the bases. Egypt will never hesitate to strike terror bases anywhere," said Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in an address televised to Egypt on Friday. A ...

  • Pope Francis brings message of peace to Egypt as Christians face violence

    Pope Francis brings message of peace to Egypt as Christians face violence

    Apr 28, 2017 11:50 PM EST

    ... the military took over in Egypt in 2011, there was violence against Christians. When the Muslim Brotherhood was in charge for a brief moment in Egypt, there was violence against Christians. And that violence against Christians in Egypt continues today under the government of Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. HARI SREENIVASAN ...

  • Newly released Egyptian-American charity worker visits Trump

    Newly released Egyptian-American charity worker visits Trump

    Apr 21, 2017 04:59 PM EST

    President Donald Trump met Friday at the White House with an Egyptian-American charity worker who was freed after nearly three years of detention in Egypt. Trump was directly involved in negotiations to free Aya Hijazi, 30, said White House press secretary Sean Spicer. Hijazi and her husband, Mohamed Hassanein ...

  • American aid worker returns to U.S. after being detained in Egypt for three years

    American aid worker returns to U.S. after being detained in Egypt for three years

    Apr 21, 2017 03:47 AM EST

    WASHINGTON — An Egyptian-American charity worker freed after nearly three years of detention in Egypt returned Thursday night to the United States, the White House said. Aya Hijazi, 30, and her husband, Mohamed Hassanein, an Egyptian, arrived in the Washington area, said a White House official who was not authorized ...