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MB poll: Majority thinks Brotherhood is moderate

I came across this unusual poll on the Muslim Brotherhood English-language website: Obviously this is not representative of anything, but I find it interesting that the MB would ask this

Muslim Brotherhood Challenges Ban on Rallies

Muslim Brotherhood’s leader Mohammed Mahdi Akef said on Wednesday his organisation "will organise new public demonstrations despite the ban issued by the [Egypt’s] ministry of interior."

Morocco sees the rise of ’acceptable’ Islamist party

Lahcen Daoudi is a curious kind of Islamist. A top leader in Morocco’s Party of Justice and Development, a legal Islamist movement emerging as a political force, he fights off

Davos Forum and Support for Arab Dictatorships

On the occasion of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East (Davos), Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his Prime Minister Ahmad Nazif made statements in which they considered that

Political Parties in Egypt

Egypt’s political parties did not evolve from within society, but rather as tools within the arena of political power, which is under the complete control of the individual ruler. The

Al-Katatny to Ikhwanweb : Nazif’s Statements are Unconstitutional

The Egyptian prime minister statements that Muslim Brotherhood (MB) deputies will not be allowed to act in parliament as Muslim Brothers and that any succes

The Muslim Brotherhood and the Double Siege

Each victory achieved by the Muslim Brotherhood on the public level is accompanied by procedures that aim at putting the movement under siege, preventing it from forming a popular base.

Al-Ahram Egyptian Newspaper Fires Its Great Writers

As a result of the retreat in the ceiling of freedoms in Egypt, especially the freedom of the press, the government’s Al-Ahram Newspaper continues the policies of quelling against its

Message From Three Female Activists Inside El- Kanater Prison

ECWR received a message signed by the three political activists - Asma’a Ali, Rasha Azab, Nada El-Kasass - and was asked to send it as their voice from behind the

Nazif Frets Over Brotherhood

The Egyptian government wants to prevent the Muslim Brotherhood forming a parliamentary group by winning seats as independents in future elections. . . Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif said on Saturday.