Aya Batrawy

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Court clears Egypt’s ex-culture minister of graft

Aya Batrawy · January 5, 2013 6:18 pm

In this Saturday Dec. 8, 2012 photo, Egyptian TV host Bassem Youssef addresses attendants at a gala dinner party in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian prosecutors launched an investigation on Tuesday against Youssef a popular television satirist for allegedly insulting the president in the latest case raised by Islamist lawyers against outspoken media personalities. The case against Youssef comes as opposition media and independent journalists are growing increasingly worried about press freedoms under a new constitution widely supported by Morsi and his Islamist allies. (AP Photo/Ahmed Omar)

Egypt prosecutors investigate popular TV comedian

Aya Batrawy · January 1, 2013 5:00 am

Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil talks during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. Kandil says his country will resume talks in January with the International Monetary Fund over a $4.8 billion loan, after they were suspended during this month's political turmoil over the now-adopted constitution. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egypt’s pound slips further against dollar

Aya Batrawy · December 31, 2012 8:15 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 file photo, Tourists ride in horse carriages past one of the Great Pyramids in Giza, Egypt. The past month saw a drop in tourists to Egypt, scared off by scenes of protests and clashes over the constitution, in new pain to a crucial industry gutted the past two years by turmoil. Tourism workers worry things wonât get any better even now that the charter has been passed: Egyptâs power struggles threaten to erupt into more unrest at any time, and some fear Islamists will eventually try to rein in alcohol and beach tourism. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

New turmoil hits Egypt’s tourism

Aya Batrawy · December 26, 2012 5:55 pm

An Egyptian vendor sells nuts in front of a giant poster of a U.S. dollar outside a currency exchange office in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. As Egypt prepared to release official results from the constitutional referendum, its economy showed increasing signs of distress on Tuesday with worried residents hoarding dollars and fearing that continued political instability will lead to a fast devaluation of the local currency. The Central Bank of Egypt said Tuesday that the U.S. dollar was selling at 6.18 to the Egyptian pound, a spike from the rate of six pounds just two months ago. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Egypt fears over currency lead to dollar rush

Mariam Rizk, Aya Batrawy · December 25, 2012 5:00 am

Egyptian boys sit by a fire near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. Egypt's political crisis shows no signs of abating as the opposition to the country's Islamist government levels new challenges against the legitimacy of a referendum on a draft constitution. Morsi also confronts criticism from the judiciary, as prosecutors hold a sit-in to demand removal of a new prosecutor general he appointed. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Egypt’s top prosecutor submits resignation

Aya Batrawy · December 17, 2012 10:00 pm

Egyptian protesters chant anti Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian President Mosri slogans outside the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. The Egyptian army has deployed tanks outside the presidential palace in Cairo following clashes between supporters and opponents of Mohammed Morsi that left several people dead and hundreds wounded. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Egypt’s president offers nothing to defuse crisis

Maggie Michael, Aya Batrawy · December 7, 2012 12:23 am

Egyptian protesters chant anti Muslim Brotherhood slogans during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. A protest by tens of thousands of Egyptians outside the presidential palace in Cairo turned violent on Tuesday as tensions grew over Islamist President Mohammed Morsi's seizure of nearly unrestricted powers and a draft constitution hurriedly adopted by his allies. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

100,000 protest at Egypt’s presidential palace

Hamza Hendawi, Aya Batrawy · December 4, 2012 11:24 pm

Amnesty details ‘horrific’ abuses in south Yemen

Aya Batrawy, Ahmed AlHaj · December 4, 2012 12:04 am

Egyptians gather body parts at the scene of a train crash that killed at least 47 people, most of them children near Assiut in southern Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. As one man picked up a body part he screamed: "Only God can help!" The bus was carrying more than 50 children between 4 and 6 years old when it was hit near al-Mandara village in Manfaloot district in the province of Assiut, a security official said, adding that it appears that the railroad crossing was not closed as the train sped toward it. (AP Photo/Mamdouh Thabet)

Egyptian train hits school bus, 51 killed

Aya Batrawy, Mamdouh Thabet · November 17, 2012 5:00 am

Egyptian groups reject $4.8 billion IMF loan

Aya Batrawy · November 12, 2012 8:29 pm

Sudan rebels claim to have downed warplane

Aya Batrawy · November 8, 2012 3:39 pm