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Election In Bahrain: One Ticket For Two Islamist Candidates

111 Bahraini candidates including 11 women have submitted their applications to stand for the upcoming parliamentary election in Bahrain. Centers accepting candidates’s requests to run for the elections opened on

Islamic-safe finance grows in the West

When Caribou Coffee went public last year, sharp-eyed investors noticed some unusual promises in its prospectus. Caribou, the nation’s second-largest coffeehouse chain, said it would never sell pork or porn.

Egypt: Draft Law Banning Gatherings and Demonstrations In Mosques

In line with the government policy of imposing more exceptional and freedom restricting laws, the Ministry of Wakf (endowment) recently presented a bill banning gatherings and demonstrations inside mosques courtyards, with

Egypt: A Leap Toward Reform—or Succession?

In his Article "Egypt: Leap toward Reform or Succession", Joshua Stacher from the Carengie Endowment Center in Washington DC and a political lecturer at the British University in Cairo, gives

Support Freedom in the Arab World

As Arab and Muslim intellectuals and activists concerned about the promotion of democracy in our region, we call on America and its president to reaffirm -- in words and actions