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Islamist MPs In the Dock

In another escalation of the government’s ongoing campaign against the Islamist opposition, two MPs from the Muslim Brotherhood were stripped of parliamentary immunity this month after being briefly detained by

Cheney of Arabia

Is Dick Cheney coming back for more? The Vice President has just completed a week-long tour of the Middle East that eerily retraced the visits he made to Arab capitals

MP’s: No Fear That Copt Heads Higher Election Committee

No Fear That Copt Heads Higher Election Committee: Brotherhood Bloc Spokesman Hamdi Hassan, the spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc, stated that the group hasn’t made its mind yet over

Court Rulings Order Egyptian Authorities Accept Alex. MBs’ Candidacy Papers

Salah Nouman, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) candidate for Shura Council elections in Alexandria, got, along with three other candidates, four court rulings ordering the administrative authority to accept their papers

I decided to murder an Arab

Earlier this week, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that a French Jewish man, a recent immigrant to Israel and who recently became religious, confessed to the murder of a 35-year-old Arab

Police Detain Brotherhood Members In Sharqiya

Egyptian police have detained 14 leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Nile Delta province of Sharkia.   Egyptian police have detained 14 leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood

Jihad and human rights

Since the terrorist attacks on September 11, Americans have strived to put together some understanding of why it happened and how to prevent it from happening again. While doing this

Six Questions for Marc Lynch on Iraq, the “Surge,” and Al Qaeda

Marc Lynch is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at George Washington University and the Elliott School of International Affairs. He is the author of Voices of

Egypt: Government Continues To Bully MB Candidates

Throughout the country, government security police and undercover agents have began  a sweeping campaign of arrests and intimidations against MB candidates running for the upcoming Shura Council elections (Egypt’s Upper House)

12 Sharqiya MBs From Sharqiya Detained

The State Security Police detained 12 Muslim Brotherhood members on Saturday May, 19, 2007, from the village of Al Asadiya, Sharqiya, while attending a course for producing shampoo . The security