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Families of MB Detainees Protest Military Trials To Parliament

A group of families of Muslim Brotherhood leaders standing military trial handed on Wednesday, June, 20, 2007, a memo to the Egyptian House Speaker, Dr. Fathi Sorour to protest the

Poor Turnout Undermines Mubarak’s Legitimacy: Experts

The legitimacy of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s new six-year term is undermined by the fact that he secured only one-fifth of the 32 million eligible voters, which also attests to

Coptic Play Shadows Egypt’s Legislative Polls

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, October 23, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – The sectarian tension in Egypt’s second city of Alexandria over an anti-Islam play produced by an Orthodox church is casting

Egyptian Islamists hit streets

CAIRO, (UPI) When the banned Muslim Brotherhood organizes a campaign march here, it leaves very little to chance.

“Easing into Islamic democracy

WASHINGTON - As the US debated going to war in Iraq last fall, some American Muslims were pursuing their own small antiterror campaign in the Muslim world

Democratic Change and American Policy

Democratic Change and American Policy in the Middle East" Address by William J. Burns Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs U.S. State Department Center for the Study of Islam and

Scholars Examine Compatibility

The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID), at its fourth annual conference in Washington May 16-17, examines the possibilities democracy holds to remedy the political, economic and

Liberty for Muslims?

Saad Eddin Ibrahim is an unlikely optimist about the future of democracy in the Islamic world. The sociologist spent nearly three years in the courts and prisons of his native

Islam and Democratization The Winds of Change

Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Distinguished Senior Fellow, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, and Senior Associate, St Anthonys, Oxford University

Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy

Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. It is indeed an honor for me to share my views about religion and democracy tonight. There has not been any other time in the