At least ten demonstrators sustained injuries after the two sides pelted stones at each other, an the Egyptian security official said in condition of anonymity.
Police reinforcements have been sent in to disperse the protesters, the official said.
The clashes come as pro- and anti-Morsi protests were staged around the country, two days ahead of planned mass rallies to call for Morsi to step down.
In Cairo’s Tahrir Square, thousands of anti-government protesters flooded into the streets as Morsi followers held rival rally on the other side of the capital.
Similar demonstrators also hit the Nile Delta city of Mansura and the canal city of Port Said.