While the million marchers in Beirut demanding Syrian exit from their country were the most dramatic symbol of last year’s hopeful “Arab spring,” it was the promise of presidential elections in ...

On January 29, 2005, just a day before Iraq’s first free elections in a half-century, the Egyptian government moved to shut down its own fledgling opposition, arresting 40-year-old Ayman Nour, ...

A court in Cairo is refusing to grant a new trial to a critic of Egypt's government. Ayman Nour finished second to President Hosni Mubarak in last year's election. Nour was then arrested, found guilty ...

American officials made more positive statements just last year about Egypt. President Hosni Mubarak promised multi-party elections there in 2005. But his most prominent challenger ended up in prison, ...

Egyptian dissident Ayman Nour has been released from prison after years of U.S. pressure. Nour was officially released for health reasons. However, the underlying causes may have been an effort on the ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Ayman Nour's attempt to win Egypt's presidency from Hosni Mubarak was followed by nearly four years in prison on charges widely seen as trumped up. He says an official vendetta ...

Ayman Nour earned a place in Egyptian history in September by emerging as the strongest challenger to incumbent Hosni Mubarak in the countrys first-ever presidential contest. The 42-year-old lawyers ...

DOHA (Reuters) - An Egyptian liberal politician jailed after he mounted a challenge for the presidency in 2005 said a presidential election that got underway in Egypt on Monday is more one-sided than ...

In Egypt, opposition figure Ayman Nour gets five years in prison for charges he says are politically motivated. Nour ran second to President Mubarak in elections earlier this year. The White House ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's military rulers on Wednesday lifted a ban preventing Ayman Nour from running for the presidency, opening the way for a presidential bid by the liberal politician who came a ...

No one ever challenged an Arab autocrat in the way Ayman Nour has. The 42-year-old M.P. spent years forming the liberal al-Ghad (Tomorrow) party and planning a run against Egyptian President Hosni ...

No one ever challenged an Arab autocrat in the way Ayman Nour has. The 42-year-old M.P. spent years forming the liberal al-Ghad (Tomorrow) party and planning a run against Egyptian President Hosni ...