Francois Burgat’s Face to Face with Political Islam (2003) has a heavy focus on Egypt and is one of the best books on Political Islam.

The Egyptian government’s crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood in advance of the April 8 local elections was motivated by its determination to exclude the Brotherhood from the 2011 presidential election

Security officials banned Muslim Brotherhood potential parliamentary candidate for Kafr Sakr constituency from submitting his registration papers to a Zagazig security headquarters for four consecutive days, MB eye-witnesses reported Wednesday.

Although the general strikes on April 6 and May 4 have drawn limited public participation, they have revealed an important new political phenomenon in Egypt: political mobilization by young, second

Recent labor protests and bread lines in Egypt—in which the army was called in to organize distribution and restore order—present a stark contrast to the Egyptian government’s narrative of impressive

The convergence of six trends in the Middle East - the changing realities of food, energy, water, population, urbanization and security-dominated politics - is likely to create conditions that will

Muslim Brotherhood students created a facebook group "Egyptians, Wake Up" to host discussions of issues related to reform and democracy.

Human Rights activists denouncing torture in Egypt were attacked by anonymous men on April 30 during their waiting to attend an appeal hearing against the pre-trial detention of three torture

Dr. Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood Executive Bureau member, expressed his disappointment at the law, and said in a statement to Ikhwanweb that it indicates the failure of the regime to

A slight man in a brown suit, whose smooth face belies his 88 years, can slide one from shelves of thousands, brush its cover and tell you a story, whether