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Links for 10/5/07

Some important links from Arabist blog

Two Al Fayyum University Students Detained For 15 More Days

The Higher State Security Prosecution ordered last Wednesday the jail of students Abd Al-Rahman Rajab Arafa, ...

September of discontent

President Mubarak’s recent crackdown on journalists recalls Sadat’s tactics 26 years ago, writes Amira Howeidy. Then, as now, the need to prop up an ailing regime is the sole motivation

Dr. Essam el Erian, His Group Have Been Released

Ikhwanweb confirmed that Dr. Essam el Erian and a group of MB leaders who have been ordered released by Cairo yesterday have been actually released and rejoined their families.

Court Ruling Releasing Ghozlan, Hamed and Al Ghoneimi

Egyptian State Security Court ordered last Wednesday, Oct., 3rd, 2007, the release of Dr. Mahmoud Ghozlan, a member of (MB) Executive Office ...

Cairo Criminal Court Rejects Interior Ministry Appeal, Acquits Alex. Detainees

Cairo Criminal Court rejected the Interior Ministry’s appeal against releasing Mohamed Ahmed Imam, Mostafa Ahmed Imam, and Mohamed Ali Farid, Rafi and Hamed Fouad Al Hamrawi, Mohamed Ibrahim and 20

Al-Hashimi proposes new initiative to end Iraq crisis

Iraqi Vice president and head of Islamic Iraqi Party Tariq al-Hashimi said in a press conference on Wednesday 26/9/2007 that he proposed the initiative of Iraqi national unity to end

Sukant Chandan: Secularism and Islamism in the Arab World

Many of the original Fatah leadership belonged to the movement to which Hamas is the ‘Palestinian branch’: the Muslim Brotherhood.

Egyptian Opposition Paper Editor Stands Trial for Article on Mubarak’s Failing Health

In Egypt, the President is God, and gods are never ill. That is why President Mubarak, his associates, and his hypocrite [cronies] are concealing the fact of his illness, ...

Separating Islam from Political Islam:The Case of Morocco

THE BLENDING OF PROSELYTIZING WITH POLITICS comprises one of the foremost dilemmas facing Islamist movements throughout the world.