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Al Erian on Sawaris Statements: Egyptian People Are Only Ones Authorized to Give, Take

In apress conference held on Tuesday, Nov,7th, 2007, prominent Egyptian businessman engineer Naguib Sawaris, the board director of Orascom Telecom, sharply criticized the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group .

Stop blaming West for woes: Muslim scholar

Doha • “Islamism” and “political Islam” are not monolithic ideas and they are as diverse as other contemporary trends in the Islamic world, says a prominent Muslim scholar and intellectual

What can you do to help?

I receive emails every now and then from Egyptians (and non-Egyptians) abroad who’ve been following with disgust the actions of Mubarak’s police against the citizens, and ask me what they

Israel Urges Egypt to Act Against Hamas

Israel says Egypt is doing far too little to stop the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, from smuggling weapons, militants and cash into the area from

Egypt Resists Linking US Aid to Rights

Egypt’s president hinted Tuesday his government would resist U.S. attempts to link military aid with alleged human rights abuses, saying the key American ally refuses "any interference in our affairs."

Hamas and al-Qaida: The Prospects for Radicalization in the Palestinian Occupied Territories

The rise of the Islamic Resistance Movement — Hamas — in the Palestinian Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza provided a challenge for Israel and the West

God is not dead

No subject seems to generate more heated discussion these days than religion. And this is by no means confined to Comment is Free, where articles on God, atheism, secularism, evolution

New MB political platform bans Christians, women from presidency, sets up Islamic clerical power

The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s powerful opposition movement, has laid down its first detailed political platform, which would bar women and Christians from becoming president ...