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Khairat Al Shater I Didn’t Meet

I haven’t met Eng. Khairat Al Shater, the second deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood group, or the prominent leader, Dr. Essam El-Erian. I haven’t had the honour of getting

Jordanian IAF Christian Member Resigns Over Pressures

The only Christian leading member in the Jordanian Islamic Action Front resigns after reportedly facing Christian pressures. Only one week after electing him as a leader in an administrative body inside

Somalia’s Islah Movement Welcomes Green Helmets

The Islah movement welcomes the AU decision of sending AU peacekeeping forces to Somalia. Somali Islah (reform) movement, the Muslim Brotherhood offshoot in Somalia, welcomed the African Union decision of sending

Ibrahim Darwish: Mubarak Jr. Is Coming

This interviews has been conducted by fellow journalist Mohamed Al-Behery of the Egyptian Al Wafd newspaper with the Egyptian legal expert, Dr. Ibrahim Darwish, in which he confirmed that the

Should the Muslim Brotherhood Disband?

In an article that surprised many, the Kuwaiti Islamist writer Abdullah al Nafisi called upon the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) to disband because it has become a burden upon Islam, asking

Farewell to Democracy

Friendly dictators have nothing to fear. The Bush administration is back to its old ways in the Middle East. So much for all the noise about democracy, reform, and good

MB Detainee Hospitalized After Suffering Heart Attack

Damu prison administration sent accountant Mostafa Atiya, a Muslim Brotherhood detainee in Al Fayyum, west of Cairo, to the public hospital, after he suffered a heart attack; he received the

Policeman Sentenced For 6 Months For Refusing To Guard Israeli Embassy

An Egyptian military court jailed, on Sunday, policeman Mohamed Khalaf Hassan Ibrahim for 6 months, because he refused to guard the embassy of Israel in a Giza residential building. The policeman, 38

The blogger and the pharaoh

THE WILL to silence free speech is a defining trait of autocratic and dictatorial regimes. The rulers of such states do not merely fear the contagion of dissent, they become