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Islamists want democracy

According to Marc Lynch in The National, moderate Islamist movements‘ attempts to participate in democratic processes throughout the Arab world have been stemmed by secular authoritarian regimes

Crackdown on university students continues.

The clampdown series on the Muslim Brotherhood students continues with the referral of 11 Azharstudents from the committee "students' movement against electoral rigging" for interrogation.

The Arab Knowledge Report 2009

Arab societies need nurturing institutions and supportive policies to experience a significant boost in knowledge production and creation, according to The Arab Knowledge Report 2009. The report, launched today, maintains

Center Publishes Book on Education in the Arab World

CCAS and Routledge recently published an edited volume on the topic of education in the Arab world. Contributions to the volume originated from two conferences on the subject, one hosted

Cessation Court reviews military tribunal detainees’ appeals

Hearing will be resumed Tuesday November 3, of the appeals filed by Eng. Khayrat el-Shater and his companions who are currently serving harsh sentences. The vice-deputy chairman of the Muslim

Kifaya: Mubarak sacked Mansour to give a warning message to his son; he is still

Dr. Abdel-Halim Kandeel, the general coordinator of the Kefaya movement, said that Egypt's transport minister, Mohamed Lotfy Mansour, was forced to resign on Tuesday in a brief statement from the

Egypt’s MB and their money: where does it come from?

CAIRO: Don’t ask, don’t tell. This is the unspoken policy of the Muslim Brotherhood in terms of where their money comes from. The reason is simple, the Egyptian government has

Egypt’s dynastic succession contested, as Muslim Brotherhood fractures

Will Gamal Mubarak succeed his father as Egypt’s next president? Is the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s leading opposition force, about to split? Should liberal and democratic forces align themselves with

Robert Fisk’s World: The truth about the Middle East is buried beneath the headlines

Amira Hass was spot on when she said last week that her lifetime women's award was an award for failure. The West Bank correspondent of the Israeli paper Haaretz eloquently

The detention of 10 Engineer Students from Helwan.

Prosecutors decided today to detain 10 Muslim Brotherhood students from the Faculty of Engineering from Helwan University. The students were charged with the same accusations in which the movement's members