CAIRO — Egypt’s Islamists looked poised Saturday to gain control of a key lever of power that will help steer the country’s political future as parliament selected a panel to draw up the ...

Decorated with red velvet bunting and three tiers of faux gold leaf-trimmed wooden benches squeezed into a single back office room of a Belle Epoque building in downtown Cairo, the Egyptian ...

Egypt's parliament, which has 596 members, saw 485 votes in favor of the changes. The body is largely made up of supporters of the president. According to The Associated Press, ...

Why Egypt’s new parliament will be born broken. October 13, 2015. Former Egyptian prime minister Kamal al-Ganzouri speaks during a parliament session in Cairo. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters) ...

Many Egyptian women were hoping to see increased opportunities after the country's revolution. But in recent elections, few women were voted into Parliament.

During the heated joint session of parliament to pick the panel, lawmakers from the liberal Egyptian Bloc, which holds 9 percent of the lower house's seats, walked out of the proceedings en masse ...

Egypt's elected parliament will convene Tuesday, a spokesman for the nation's Freedom and Justice Party said Monday.

Egypt has been without a parliament since 2012. As the drastically reconstituted legislative body convenes this week for the first time in nearly four years, the final step in the restoration of ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptians began voting Saturday in the first stage of parliamentary elections, a vote that is highly likely to produce a toothless lower chamber packed with supporters of President ...