Egypt in images Live Blog

Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), attends a meeting at the Defence Ministry in Cairo in this December 22, 2011 file photograph.

President Barack Obama stressed US. support for Egypt's move to democracy and discussed its International Monetary Fund talks in a telephone conversation on January 20, 2012 with Egyptian military council chief Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the White House said. [Reuters]

These images show Egyptians voting in the third round of a parliamentary election on Tuesday that has so far handed Islamists the biggest share of seats in an assembly that will be central in the planned transition from army rule.

A Coptic Christian priest looks at the Saint Mary Church, which was set on fire during clashes between Muslims and Christians on Saturday in the heavily populated area of Imbaba in Cairo in this May 8, 2011 file photo.

Rows over places of worship have long been at the heart of complaints by Christians in Egypt, who make up 10 percent of the population. But a spate of such attacks since the uprising that deposed Mubarak in February has upset Copts who say the country's interim army rulers have ignored their grievances and failed to protect them. 

This screengrab shows the protester gathering in Cairo's Tahrir Square. [image - Al Jazeera]

Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi, the head of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), meets with Mahmoud Jibril (L), the head of Libya's rebel National Transitional Council, in Cairo August 27, 2011. [Reuters]

Foreign ministers and representatives of foreign ministries of the Arab world attend an Arab league meeting in its headquarters in Cairo August 27, 2011. Arab governments will step up pressure on Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at the meeting on Saturday with a demand he end a crackdown on protesters trying to remove him, a delegate said.[Reuters]

An Egyptian man walks past a defaced giant statue of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (L) on the outskirts of Cairo August 2, 2011, a day before his trial.

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Egypt's security authorities have received notice to move Hosni Mubarak to Cairo for trial, Al Arabiya television said Tuesday, but a senior security source denied this, adding to the fevered speculation about whether the ousted leader will attend.

Mubarak, 83, has been hospitalized in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh since April when he was first questioned. The statue also shows (L-R) Egyptian Nobel prize winner Ahmed Zewail, the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize Winner Naguib Mahfouz. [image | reuters]

Military personnel clear Tahrir Square of protesters in Cairo, August 1, 2011.

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Egypt's army moved into Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square on Monday clearing away a few hundred protesters who remained camped there after the main groups ended their three-week demonstration. [image | reuters]

Military police personnel run after demonstrators in Tahrir square in Cairo, August 1, 2011.

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Egypt's army moved into Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square on Monday clearing away a few hundred protesters who remained camped there after the main groups ended their three-week demonstration.  [image | reuters]