The city's few remaining Jews praise Egyptian leader Sissi for funding project, part of a push to draw tourists by marketing country's rich cultural heritage

Jewish community leaders, Egyptian antiquities minister and diplomats are slated to attend Eliyahu Hanavi's reopening following multi-million-dollar rehab

Online comedian Shady Sorour, 24, arrested after returning from US; he is to be tried for allegedly inciting protests to overthrow the government

Military court had sentenced Sami Annan to 9 years in prison for saying he would run against President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi

PA president also said to speak to his Egyptian counterpart about efforts to hold PA elections in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem

Mohamed Ali sentenced for tax evasion; had pitched himself as a former government insider who witnessed high-level corruption as a construction contractor for the military

All three will remain in detention for 15 days, which can be renewed indefinitely; defense team says they are held in relation to recent arrests of professors, lawyers, journalists

Supreme State Security Prosecution, designed to fight terrorism, being used to imprison peaceful protesters, journalists, and critics without trial, Amnesty International charges

Security forces had arrested 3 Mada Masr editors following article alleging that President Sissi's son was being transferred to diplomatic posting following internal criticism

Radwa Mohamed accused of spreading fake news over videos calling Egypt's president 'unsuccessful,' criticizing country's rights record