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Al Banna Family Denied Travel to Father’s Centenary Anniversary

Cairo Airport security authorities refused to give a permission to Ahmed Seif el Islam Al Banna and his sisters, Dr. Istishhad and Miss Sanaa, to travel to Jordan to attend

Plainclothes, uniformed police suppress demonstration downtown

Kefaya activists Nadia Mabrouk and her fiance Waleed Salah are spending the night in Qasr el-Nil Police Station, and will be transferred to the prosecutor in the morning on charges

Islamist Movements in the Arab World and the 2006 Lebanon War

Recent electoral successes by Islamist parties throughout the Arab world have shown those movements to be viable political opposition to many undemocratic regimes. Most analyses examine those movements only within

U.S. democracy agenda loses steam with Iraq focus

The Bush administration’s democracy agenda, which was losing steam even before last week’s U.S. elections, will become less of a priority now the focus is on stabilizing Iraq, said foreign

Tunis: Feminist Organization Says Veiled Women Persecuted

A 60 years old woman, reported a message sent to Ikhwanweb, was walking down a street in the Tunisian capital when two security officers stopped her and asked her why

Dr. Salah Ali: We did not hold secret deals with gov’t

- "We did not hold secret deals with the government, domestic interests are top priority"- "We combated financial, administrative, and moral corruption, saved a lot for the budget of the

Egypt: 70 MB Workers Win In First Phase Amid Security Pressures

The first round of the Trade Union election has come  to a close and MB candidates garnered 70 seats nationwide, including two female workers one in Sharqeya and the other in

Gov’t Bans Prominent MB Economist From Travelling Again

Egyptian security authorities banned senior MB leader and prominent economist, Dr. Abdul Hamid el Ghazali, from traveling to Beirut to attend the Fifth Arab General Conference scheduled to be held

Lebanon: MB Says Nation Interests Top Priority

Lebanese people breathed a sigh of relief after the  political forces announced their intent to get together and open dialogues on all the national issues, said the head of Jama’a