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Poor Medical Care Takes Toll on El Shater’s Health

Khairat Al-Shater is suffering of an infection in his foot which lead to swelling and bleeding due to poor diabetic care inside the prison, according to doctors.

MB Executive Bureau’s Mahmoud Hussein Demands Release for Health Reasons

Dr. Mahmoud Hussein, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Executive Bureau, developed an acute heart attack in Tora Farm prison.

Monofiya MBs Released, Amer & Abu Zeid Questioned, Malek’s daughter Subpoenaed

The Higher State Security Prosecution released, on Saturday at noon, Abul Fattouh Afifi (85 years) the head of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) administrative office in Monofiya and four others and

Islamists under fire draft first political programme

fresh wave of Egyptian government crackdowns against the main opposition movement has been directed against a varied range of targets - a students’ "summer camp" on the Mediterranean coast, an

Al Feqi: We Can’t Maintain Game of Arrests Against Muslim Brotherhood

" The Muslim Brotherhood is a political group, and we can not deny this. I do not accept describing it as an outlawed group. I do not accept their political

Democracy Ascendant

At a time when the U.S. is occupying two countries thick with militarized fanatics abhorring democracy, Michael Mandelbaum, a foreign policy professor at Johns Hopkins, brings us a loving tribute

Why does Egypt choose to stoop so low?

There is a special sadness to the diminution of giants, to great men and countries that choose to stoop low. Egypt, in this respect, mystifies us once again, as its

Democracy Promotion Needs a Plan of Action

The president gave a speech about the democracy agenda, but he never put a democracy agenda together. In all policy areas, but especially in foreign policy and diplomacy, saying things

Endless clampdowns

Arrests, more arrests and military trials, such was the Muslim Brotherhood’s week.

Suffering from thirst in Egypt

Life in Egypt is hard for most people. Lower middle class families have to live on $50, $70 per month.