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The Problem of Modernity?

What he does not seem to grasp - and the Bush administration is no better - is that America is the cutting edge of a modernity that has convulsed Islam

Aljazeera.net Poll: Torture in Egypt a Systematic Policy

A poll on Aljazeera.net over torture inside police stations and prisons in Egypt showed that 68.7 % of the surfers who participated in the three day poll- that ended last

Muslim Brotherhood Trims Political Goals After Arrests

The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition force, has suspended its bid for legalization as a political party following mass arrests of its members, Brotherhood officials say.

Aboul-Fotouh: We Welcome Serious Dialogue For Our National Interests

A report prepared by the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of Commons called on UK government to hold vis-a-vis dialogues with Hamas movement, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group in

1 Million Pounds Stolen from Safe of Egyptian Reformist Hassan Malik

More developments were unveiled during the latest military trial held last Sunday against forty Muslim Brotherhood leaders. The military Attorney General discovered while opening the sealed safe of businessman Hassan

Somebody’s listening…and getting angry: an exchange with a British neo-con

Israel can get beyond occupation, beyond its current predicament and on to a more stable, secure, and hopeful footing…This requires smartening-up, not dumbing-down one’s understanding of political Islamists — they

Scars that refuse to heal

Female genital mutilation is on Egypt’s political agenda again, after the death of two young girls. But can legislation banish it?

Why Has MB’s Party Program Been Delayed?

ix months ago, Mohamed Mahdi Akef, Muslim Brotherhood (MB) chairman, declared that MB plans to establish a political party, saying they will make public the program of this party to

Abu Zuhri: We Welcome Call for Dialogue with West

Hamas movement received warmly Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi’s call for holding a dialogue with the movement to help it develop itself. “No peace will be achieved as long as

Learn from the fall of Rome, US warned

The US government is on a ’burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is