In May 1968, student protests in Paris challenged the foundations of the social order in the heart of the industrially advanced West. Al-Ahram Weekly investigates what remains of the wave

From the people who brought you the "war on terror" and the "axis of evil" comes a new verbal tonic for combating that amorphous emotion.

State Security Forces arrested three MB students from Al-Fayoum University days before their final exams. The three were referred to the prosecution and were ordered to be released immediately, however

The local branches of the Lawyers’ Syndicate in coordination with main headquarters in Cairo invited all Egyptian lawyers to rally on Sunday in their black ropes outisde the Parliament buliding

The Guardian, Wednesday April 30 2008 Article historyIn May, Jewish organisations will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. This is understandable in the

This paper examines changes in Egyptian political Islam and evaluates views of mainstream Islamists of the EU polices and initiatives regarding democracy in the Mediterranean region.

I haven’t had time to follow the Kuwaiti elections as closely as I would have liked, but the results are interesting. Most of the English-language coverage has emphasized that Islamists

After I stole his best line this morning, my suitemate Nathan Brown volunteered this comment on the performance of the Salafi movement in the Kuwaiti elections, which he spent last

This chapter features a transcript of an interview with Issam al-Iryan, chief of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political department in Egypt. Issam al-Iryan discusses the Muslim Brotherhood’s view of the US

This paper discusses the assumptions commonly prevalent in the analysis of political Islam. It argues that the multiple manifestations of political Islam are primarily determined by discrete contexts, and that