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Moderate Islamism- Key to Democracy?

director of research at the Brookings Doha Center, argues in a new policy briefing that the U.S. must reassess its policy toward moderate Islamist groups in the Middle East, or

Hidden Intelligence Operation Behind the Wikileaks Release of ‘Secret’ Documents?

Since the dramatic release of a US military film of a US airborne shooting of unarmed journalists in Iraq, Wiki-Leaks has gained global notoreity and credibility as a daring website

The Islamist Response to Repression: Are Mainstream Islamist Groups Radicalizing?

Today, some of the Middle East’s most prominent Islamist groups are in a state of crisis, racked by internal divisions and struggling to respond to regime repression. With key U.S.

MB leader Ali Abdul Fattah and five others released

State Security in Alexandria released six Muslim Brotherhood members including MB leader Ali Abdul Fattah after a second release order was issued. The group was apprehended early last week after

Egypt: Former minister supports opposition demands for reform

Former Information Minister, Dr. Kamal Abul Magd, expressed his support for constitutional amendments particularly article 76, which restrict the rights to run for presidency

Taking on Mubarak

Mohamed ElBaradei has lit a fire under President Hosni Mubarak’s stagnant rubber-stamp government

MB online petition for reform exceeds half a million

The Muslim Brotherhood's online petition has collected over 500, 000 signatures 35 days into its launching.

Warming up exercises

The countdown to the legislative elections scheduled for November has started, with the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) and the opposition, both secular and Islamist, already in rehearsal for the

‘No elections without guarantees’

The Coalition of Egyptian Opposition Parties (CEOP), which includes the official opposition parties of the Wafd, Tagammu, the Nasserists and Democratic Front, held a one-day conference on 8 August calling

Dr. ElBaradei to CNN: I am no new Pharaoh

CNN program "African voices" recently interviewed former IAEA chief Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei who had recently emerged onto Egypt 's political arena much to the distaste of the ruling regime