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Egypt’s Constitutional amendments 2019 : The Parliament approves preliminary too quickly

On Thursday, Egypt’s House of Representatives passed in Cairo preliminary the constitutional amendments preliminary that will allow current President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to run for more presidential terms...

Posted Feb 16 2019, 06:09 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Human Rights, media, politics, Democracy, Follow Up, parliament, Egyptian Faces, Presidency, Party of parties, Egyptian Constitution

Egyptian Constitutional amendments 2019 : Let the games begin

And the Egyptian parliament began to pave the away for the upcoming Constitutional amendments . Without waiting for the Urgent matters court to say its word , more than one fifth of the MPs in the House...

Posted Feb 03 2019, 04:25 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: News, Egypt, politics, Follow Up, parliament, Presidency, Egyptian Constitution

Amending Constitution in 2019 : More quiet rejection

The calls for amending the 2014 Constitutions have not stopped, nor did the calls standing against those proposed constitutional amendments. On Wednesday, “25-30” parliamentary bloc declared that its total...

Posted Jan 17 2019, 06:24 PM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: News, Egypt, media, politics, Follow Up, parliament, Presidency, Party of parties, Egyptian Constitution

It seems that we are going to have constitutional amendments in Egypt : Voters be ready in 2019 !!

Earlier Friday, we found out that Egypt’s Urgent Matter Court scheduled a hearing 23 December 2018 to demand the parliament to look into a lawsuit demanding constitutional amendments that will cancel the...

Posted Dec 10 2018, 08:06 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: News, media, Islam, politics, Democracy, Religion, parliament, National Security, trials, Presidency, Party of parties, Egyptian Constitution, Egyptian History

Egypt’s Cybercrime law : Because one law is not enough to tame social media

The Egyptian House of Representatives has been very active in early June approving and passing several laws that technically kill any freedom of speech margin left in the country especially in the social...

Posted Jun 25 2018, 09:21 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Egypt, media, citizen Journalism, Blogging, politics, Bloggers, parliament, National Security, Laws

The New Media and Press laws in Egypt : The end of social media by law

There are lots of economic and political updates and decisions that have taken place in Egypt in the past ten days and I am just trying to keep up with those decisions because they are all important and...

Posted Jun 19 2018, 09:32 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, media, citizen Journalism, politics, Democracy, parliament, Laws

And Shawkan makes press history in Egypt for real

Earlier Monday, the UNESCO announced it awarded detained Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid aka Shawkan its UNESCO /Guillermo Cano Press Freedom prize for 2018. “The choice of Mahmoud Abu Zeid pays...

Posted Apr 23 2018, 10:22 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Egypt, media, history, politics, parliament, Egyptian Faces, trials, Communiques, Egyptian History

Another New State of emergency in Egypt : It never ends

And President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi issued a decree on Tuesday “10/10/2017” to declare a state of emergency in Egypt for three months starting from Friday “Tomorrow” 1 AM Cairo Local Time. A copy of the...

Posted Oct 12 2017, 08:45 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, politics, Democracy, parliament, Presidency, Egyptian Constitution

Tiran and Sanafir's court ruling echoes in Cairo

Here are the newspapers on Tuesday following Egypt's High Administrative court ruling to reject the appeal of the Egyptian government against the annulling of April 2016 Egyptian-Saudi demarcation...

Posted Jan 17 2017, 08:21 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Egypt, media, citizen Journalism, politics, Follow Up, parliament, Red Sea, National Security, Gulf, Sinai, trials

The new judicial authorities draft law : Back to the judges' anger

It seems that it is history repeating in a very a bad way, it is worse than what happened before in 2006. Recently, Egypt’s House of Representatives proposed a draft law to amend the current Judicial authority...

Posted Jan 04 2017, 08:49 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Egypt, politics, Democracy, parliament, Laws, Egyptian History

Regarding the recent "and never ending" sectarian incidents in Upper Egypt

Earlier Thursday, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met with a delegation from the Egyptian Orthodox Church led by the head of Church himself Pope Tawadros II. The meeting comes after sectarian tensions and...

Posted Jul 28 2016, 11:18 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, media, politics, Religion, parliament, Upper Egypt, Presidency

The danger of being a regular citizen now in Egypt !!

"He was tortured and killed like an Egyptian" Allegedly those were the words of Paola Regeni, the mother of the mother of the 28-years-old Italian political science researcher tortured and killed...

Posted Jul 20 2016, 12:44 PM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, society, media, Women, politics, Sports, parliament, National Security

Spare Egypt from those foreign loans

Just as Egypt was just in shock over the tragedy of EGYPTAIR MS804 on Thursday , many Egyptians found out that Russia would lend Egypt USD 25 billion to build its nuclear station in Dabaa. Putin and Sisi...

Posted May 24 2016, 09:19 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Egypt, politics, Democracy, Economy, parliament, Caucasus, National Security, Presidency

Egypt's MPs should speak about the fiscal policies, that is what they should do

On Sunday , we found out that the Speaker of Egypt's House of Representatives, Ali Abdel Aal warning the MPs of speaking about the government's fiscal policies in the media critically or otherwise...

Posted May 23 2016, 09:28 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Egypt, media, politics, Democracy, Economy, parliament

It is Egypt's House of Representatives against the social media

In early April, we found the MPs of the Egyptian House of Representatives adopting a draft law to regulate Social media networks in Egypt. Yes, the Egyptian parliament is discussing a draft law to regulate...

Posted Apr 19 2016, 09:42 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, media, politics, Democracy, parliament, Laws

And now the European Parliament is accused of being ... MB funded !!

On Thursday, the European Parliament passed a resolution about the member of Italian student Giulio Regeni and it is making the Egyptian administration angry unsurprisingly. The resolution was approved...

Posted Mar 14 2016, 07:30 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, media, politics, Video, MB, parliament, EU

IWD2016 : Egyptian Women in the parliament through time

On the occasion of celebrating the International Women's Day, I would like to share with you something I should have posted from several times ago but it seems that I forgot. If you remember, I did...

Posted Mar 08 2016, 06:59 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Egypt, Women, history, politics, parliament, Egyptian Faces, Numbers, Egyptian History

Okasha's affair : The village's fool is no longer wanted

Wednesday afternoon, the majority of Egypt's House of Representatives agreed to revoke the parliamentary membership of Tawfik Okasha for allegedly meeting the Israeli ambassador. Not less than 465...

Posted Mar 05 2016, 12:15 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Egypt, media, Israel, politics, Democracy, parliament, National Security

Forget about amending the Protest law in the House of Representatives

Some people had hopes in the past two years that the controversial Protest law would be amended in a way or another in the Egyptian House of Representatives. Well, surprise .. it won't be amended in...

Posted Jan 15 2016, 09:41 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: News, Human Rights, Egypt, politics, Democracy, Follow Up, parliament, Laws

The Difference between Spanish Congress of Deputies and the Egyptian House of Representatives

Meet Nagua Alba , the 25-years old Spanish MP of Egyptian Nubian origins in the Spanish Congress of Deputies . Nagua Alba "Ahmed Guoeli's Facebook page" Nagua Alba -born Nagua Goueli-the...

Posted Jan 14 2016, 10:03 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: News, Egypt, Women, politics, Democracy, parliament, EU

House of Representatives : Season 1 Premiere Recap

And it is not only the first parliamentary session Egypt has seen since the dissolution of the parliament in summer 2012 but it can be the longest parliamentary procedural session in the history of Egypt...

Posted Jan 12 2016, 06:10 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Egypt, media, politics, Democracy, Video, parliament, Egyptian Constitution

And the new Season of the Egyptian parliament is kicking off !!

After few hours from now, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi will inaugurate the first session of the Egyptian parliament aka House of Representatives in Cairo. Getting ready for action "Reuters"...

Posted Jan 09 2016, 08:04 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Egypt, politics, Democracy, parliament

#Egyelections : Final results of Parliamentary elections 2015

And the High Elections Committee “HEC”” announced the final results of the Parliamentary elections 2015 on Friday. The second stage of the elections’ runoffs were held last week already. Now to the big...

Posted Dec 04 2015, 06:53 AM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Egypt, politics, Democracy, Elections, parliament, Numbers, Party of parties

The vanishing of the NDP Building scene

As you have known in May that the infamous building of the National Democratic Party “NDP” was being demolished. I noticed that no one paid attention to the progress of demolishing that building that became...

Posted Nov 18 2015, 09:27 PM by Egyptian Chronicles

Filed under: Egypt, citizen Journalism, Photos, politics, Elections, parliament, Party of parties, Grand Cairo

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Kodak Agfa posted a photo: Egyptian Parliamentary elections 2015 Day one Empty from voters Qomia language school polling station in Agouza. Read More...