Raging against rising internet repression

During the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008–sponsored by Harvard University and Google in Budapest, Hungary, in late June, and attended by over 200 bloggers, human rights activists, writers, journalists,

Cairo, Tehran and “The Assassination of a Pharaoh”

Egyptian-Iranian differences go beyond Egyptian anger over the film, "The Assassination of a Pharaoh." This explains why Egyptian officials are not convinced by Tehran’s announcement that it washed its hands

MB Candidate Barred from Holding Electoral Conference

Security forces at Desouq constituency in Alexandria barred MB candidate Ragab El Banna from holding a popular conference on Thursday as part of his electoral campaign, Ikhwanweb reporters said.

Woes of inflation and succession in Egypt

Political risk is rising on the banks of the Nile. Egypt’s inflation rate has trebled in the past year to 20 per cent, triggering the worst wave of street protests

The rise of political Islam

’The central axis of world politics in the future is likely to be... the conflict between ’the West and the Rest’ and the responses of non-Western civilisations to Western power

Three MBs Arrested in Alex, One in Dosouq

Three MB advocates were arrested in Alexandria Friday as part of the continuing security harassments against Muslim Brotherhood candidates for the complementary parliamentary elections, Ikhwanweb reporter said.

Brotherhood MP Calls on Gov’t to Fight Sexual Harassment of Tourists

Mohsen Radi (member of the MB parliamentary bloc) has criticized the passive attitude of the Ministry of Tourism in preventing sexual harassment of female Tourists in Egypt.

MB MP: Wheat Sufficiency Needs Faithful Gov’t Efforts

Dr. Hamdy Ismaeel (member of the MB parliamentary bloc and member of the PA’s Committee of Agriculture and Irrigation) said that Egypt can easily attain self-sufficiency in wheat when government

Saying ’Islamic threat’ over and over doesn’t make it real

Years of peddled fear and demonisation have left vulnerable minorities more isolated and the world fixated by a myth

Intellectual and Organization in Islamic Movement, A Tense Relation

Intellectuals play a key role in Islamic groups and movements. Groups are mostly founded by men of thinking, of moderate or extremist thinking, of disciplined or reckless thinking. Thinkers are