“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.

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

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;

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.

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

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.

Not since the downfall of the British puppet King Faruq in 1952 has the Egyptian national will been so shamefully subservient to a foreign power, namely the United States, whose

"The novelist Ian McEwan has launched an astonishingly strong attack on Islamism, saying that he ’despises’ it and accusing it of ’wanting to create a society that I detest,’ "

The latest organizational elections within the MB Shura Council which added five new members to its Executive Council, the highest decision making authority within the MB, stirred political controversy by

MB MP Mohsen Radi submitted an inquiry to the Minister of Higher Education about the status of scientific research, saying it suffers “anemia and delirium.” He cited what an economy