FPWATCH: On the Muslim Brotherhood

Mr. Khaled Salam, the co-editor of IkhwanWeb, the English-language website for the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), stopped in to respond to many commenters" negative views on the Brotherhood and its goals.

Four Myths about Protest

It’s now widely recognized that social protest has become a staple of Egyptian politics, what some journalists and researchers have taken to calling an emergent “culture of protest” among an

Brotherhood MP: EOHR Report Should Be Positively Addressed By Gov’t

Commenting on the latest EOHR annual report, MP Sabry Amir (member of the MB parliamentary bloc) criticized the Egyptian government for its deteriorating human rights record, and called on the

Awkaf: Israeli violations in occupied Jerusalem American backed

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Quds committee in the PA caretaker government’s ministry of Awkaf and religious affairs has charged that the Israeli systematic settlement policy in occupied Jerusalem was American backed.

Mubarak ’may seek another term’

Cairo: The new leader of the Egyptian protest movement Kefaya, which tried to prevent the re-election of President Hosni Mubarak in 2005, said yesterday Egypt now faces the possibility that

Egypt demanding data from cyber cafés users: NGO

CAIRO (AFP) — An Egyptian NGO on Saturday accused the Egyptian authorities of forcing cyber cafés to gather personal information on Internet users, saying the measure was a violation of

Mauritania Islamists: Military Coup Threatens the Country’s Stability

Muhammad Jamil Weld Mansour, head of the National Assembly for Reform and Development in Mauritania and an Islamist MP, said the military coup that took place in Mauritania on Wednesday

MB Defense: Excluding MB Detainees from Amnesty is Unconstitutional

Defense panel of MB leaders who received prison sentences in the latest military tribunal has filed a contest against the president’s decision to exclude jailed MBs from his decision no.

Price of Struggle with Ikhwan

The Ikhwan remaining in political life in the current manner will lead to the group’s further deterioration. When I called last Thursday in this column for the Ikhwan to shun

Right and Left

Whoever follows up the Arab political life nowadays will find all liberal or leftist opposition movements in dire straits. The historical experience, of course, differs between Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon,