Middle East Institute

The principle of equal citizenship under the law is effectively abandoned.

When Mohamed Morsi assumed the mantle of first democratically-elected, civilian president of Egypt, he both resigned from the Freedom and Justice Party‑‑the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood‑‑and declared himself “president of all Egyptians.”

Los Angeles Times

Brokers and investors worry the Muslim Brotherhood's rise to power will put the ailing Egyptian economy even deeper in the tank.

Daily volume on Egypt's stock exchange has plummeted from 1 billion
Egyptian pounds — about $143 million — after the 2011 uprising to
about 250 million pounds today. Investors are skittish about the nation's
new leaders.

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.

The New York Times

The Morsi administration has buried a fact-finding report it commissioned on the deaths of protesters during the anti-Mubarak uprising.

Riot police guarded Cairo’s High Court during an emergency
meeting of judges on April 24.

CAIRO — In 2006, I watched middle-aged members of the Muslim Brotherhood kneel and pray in the street outside Cairo’s High Court in front of rows of officers from the riot police.

Once were Pharaohs, Coptic girls are being abducted every week. Churches are being routinely torched. And Christians are even being terrorized.

Why are Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Christians one of the most oppressed minorities in the world? Author Ramy Tadros investigates this question, among many others, in his new book, "The War of the Words: Oppression, Egypt's Copts, and the State".

The New York Times

An injured man was helped outside the main Coptic Christian Cathedral in
Cairo. Dozens of riot police with armored vehicles and tear-gas canons
appeared to enter the fray on the side of crowds of young Muslim men
who were throwing rocks and fire bombs at the mourners.

CAIRO — Wasfi Amin Wassef used to buy and sell jewelry from his shop in Cairo’s vast Khan al-Khalili bazaar. Now he mostly buys it.

Financial Times

Graffiti near Tahrir Square in Cairo depicts the Muslim Brotherhood
with the word 'liars' in Arabic

A battle between rival religious power centres over Egypt’s institutions and the nature of its Muslim identity threatens economic and political stability in the Arab world’s most populous country.

This video footage taken from a street in Jerusalem during Orthodox Easter weekend shows Israeli police brutally attacking an old Egyptian Coptic Christian priest.