Nour Live Blog

The public policies of Egypt's Nour Party, which represents the country's ultraconservative Salafi Muslim community, are anything but easy to predict. Today, Nour leaders have simultaneously come out in favor of media censorship and democracy-advocating, US-funded NGOs under investigation.

Nour Party chairman Emad Abdel Ghafour said that his party had gone to the US-based National Democratic Institute for training on public opinion polls and monitoring party manifestos and that "there's no doubt" their work "was a type of enrichment of political life".

On Wednesday, MPs from Ghafour's party expressed distrust for the media and requested that parliament sessions not be broadcast live.

“It’s irreligious to let people see government officials insulted,” Abdel Aziz al-Aqrasa said.