Though this matter is not at the heart of the country's current crisis, marked by rampant insecurity and economic statis, the ambiguities contained in the Constitution may cause serious problems in the future.

By Edmund Blair and Yasmine Saleh CAIRO, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Thousands of Egyptians protested against President Mohamed Mursi on Friday...

CAIRO, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Egypt's Islamist-led constituent assembly finalised a new constitution on Friday and will send it to the president for him...

CAIRO -- A Cairo court has postponed to July 30 a key ruling that will determine the legality of an Islamist-dominated panel tasked to write Egypt's n...

Khaled Abou El Fadl and I spoke on June 28, at the end of two weeks that were tumultuous even by the standards of post-revolutionary Egypt. We discussed the role the courts had played, foreign pressures on the military council, and the future of political Islam.

Everyone wants to believe that Egyptians are participating in a democratic transition, but this is a game with no rules and shifting goal posts.

Egypt's military rulers have moved to assert and extend their power so broadly that a growing number of lawyers and activists are questioning their willingness to ultimately submit to civilian authority.

How should we judge whether the military's proposed constitutional amendments are significant? Here are the articles with the most egregious roadblocks to further reform.