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Criminal Court Releases 71 Muslim Brothers

East Cairo Criminal Court has passed a verdict releasing 71 leading figures of the MB who were detained prior to the latest local council elections last April.

Survey says world’s top 10 intellectuals are Muslims

The bimonthly U.S. international affairs journal Foreign Policy has just published a survey of the world’s top 20 public intellectuals and the first 10 are all Muslims. They are certainly

Coptic Intellectual Says MB Won’t Oppress Copts

Coptic intellectual Milad Hanna said Sunday the Muslim Brotherhood should be granted official recognition by the government and that it adopts tolerance towards Copts, al-mesryoon website reported him as saying.

Mapping the blogosphere

Via Ethan Zuckerman and Henry Farrell, check out this fascinating exercise in mapping the American political blogosphere (and, via Ethan, John Kelly and Bruce Etling’s mapping of the Iranian blogosphere;

Egypt’s liberal autocracy

What term can we use to describe the incumbent Egyptian political regime? Is it a democratic or authoritarian regime, or is it hybrid mix of the two? Indeed, for a

Egypt’s never-ending state of emergency

“When the Egyptian people speak out against poverty and an inert government, human rights abuses follow.” Mustafa Adam-Noble looks at the various ways that suppression in Egypt is growing.

MB MP Criticizes the Maltreatment of Burg El-Arab Prisoners

Mohamed Mustafa Al-Adly (member of Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc) has criticized the maltreatment of Mahalla’s detainees at Burg El-Arab prison.