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The Multifaceted Muslim Brotherhood

Making sense of the “extraordinarily dynamic” Islamist movement can be an extremely bewildering task, Hillel Fradkin of the Hudson Institute noted at The Nixon Center yesterday. That’s why those in

Hamas Seeks to End Ties with Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan

Jordanian Islamic sources told the London daily Al-Hayat that Hamas had asked the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan to end the organizational ties between the groups. Among the reasons for the

No More Socialism

Egypt officially removed from its constitution all references to Egypt as a socialist country. For this occasion Sandmonkey published a post that’s surprisingly harsh on Egypt’s reformers. The Arab economic

Democracy or Stability?

There are prompt attempts to put democracy and stability in contrast – i.e. no stability with democracy. This statement has a clear objective: justifying dictatorship as a requirement of stability

All is not lost

As President George Bush’s State of the Union address and Secretary Condoleezza Rice’s recent Middle East trips showed, the Bush administration has shifted its public rhetoric back from the democrats-

Could 650,000 Iraqis really have died because of the invasion?

The statistics made headlines all over the world when they were published in The Lancet in October last year. More than 650,000 Iraqis – one in 40 of the population

URGENT: Lawsuit to be filed to block 21 Egyptian blogs

The head of the very same Court imprisoned blogger Kareem Soliman will be appealing to next week is launching a lawsuit to get 21 blogs and websites blocked in Egypt.

The brotherhood is gathering outside the pharaoh’s palace

The Mubarak regime is heading for a succession crisis. By trying to strangle Egypt’s Islamists, it has strengthened them  In front of the towering golden sandstone entrance to the temple

Hosni Mubarak’s regime won’t delete Egypt’s bloggers

Abdel Kareem Nabil, the 22-year-old Egyptian blogger sentenced to three years in jail for insulting Islam and an additional year behind bars for insulting President Hosni Mubarak, was not born