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Palestinians apprehensive about CIA money

Palestinian nationalist and Islamic leaders have strongly denounced efforts by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and affiliated foreign aid bodies to recruit Palestinian journalists, politicians and certain political groups to

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

Straw’s View Towards Veiled Women between, Roy’s Theory and Putnam’s Prophecy

Straw’s View towards Veiled Women, between, Roy’s Theory and Putnam’s ProphecyIn his book, Globalization of Islam, the French Oliver Roy argues that the Jihad ideology that worries the new Europe

The MB And Sadat 1981

The rising interest in Islamic movements in the West may be fully justified on grounds of national interest. However, there is a creeping danger of neo-Orientalism in the garb of

Egypt Muslim Brotherhood’s ’audacious’ leader

 Mohammed Mehdi Akef changed face of underground movement into openly active player on political scene. In almost three years as supreme guide of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Mehdi Akef has

Hassan Al-Banna, founding father of Egypt’s Muslim brotherhood

Hassan Al-Banna, who founded Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, has left a lasting ideological legacy, but the movement today bears many differences to the one founded in 1928. On Saturday, members of