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Syria: An Open Letter to the 4th General Conference of Arab Political Parties

An Open Letter Submitted by Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood to the Fourth General Conference of Arab Political Partiesto be held in Damascus from 4 to 6 March 2006 Distinguished participants at

Abdel Monem Abou El-Fotouh

A radical Islamist as a student, Abou El-Fotouh is now a leading member of the banned-but-tolerated Muslim Brotherhood’s dovish campWhenever he got wind of a concert scheduled to be held

Playing by the Book

With an unprecedented number of seats in the People’s Assembly, the Muslim Brotherhood is trying to show new maturity by endorsing the broad framework of the Nazif government’s economic reform

All Politics is Local

Opposition groups criticized the governing NDP’s decision to postpone municipal elections originally slated for this spring, but Mohamed Kamal, a leading party reformer and the architect of President Hosni Mubarak’s

Arrests Will Not Hinder Our March For Freedom

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Gracious Praise be to Allah, Peace and Blessings be upon Prophet Muhammad and those who follow his way We are

Major Setback For Hopes Of Democratic Reform In Egypt

In the first escalation against the Muslim Brotherhood after the People’s Assembly (legislative) elections and the Brotherhood’s success in winning 88 seats, State security forces have arrested 7 leading young

Habeeb to Ikhwanweb: Egyptian Regime Does Not Want Reform

The Muslim Brotherhood, represented by Dr. Mohamed Habeeb, First Deputy of the MB Chairman, has denounced the arrests of Prof. Rashad El-Bayoumi, professor of Geology at Cairo University along with

Why attacking Iran isn’t a good idea

WE HAVE basically a three-year window of opportunity before the Islamic republic acquires the nuclear bomb," Reza Pahlavi, the son and heir of the late shah of Iran told me

Rocks and Ripples

Fear in the U.S. of Russian nukes made strange bedfellows during the Cold War, like our relationship with the shah of Iran, Franco, Somoza, and Pinochet. The logic was that

The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe

When I returned to Europe five years ago, the biggest story was simple: economics. In a world of fierce economic competition, Europe was losing ground. Jobs were disappearing but new