Rumours abound that the government is considering closing down access to Facebook, the website that has become a favourite venue for Egypt’s disaffected young. But what good will it do

Hopes for political reform and increased participation in Egypt faded with the events that marked the 2008 local council elections, which have cast a gloomy shadow over the future of

The confrontation between Egyptian physicians and the government entered a new stage last week when, on 23 April, amid intense security, doctors staged peaceful protests at their syndicate headquarters in

Egyptians are using the online social networking tool Facebook to defy the government’s attempt to muzzle the media and hush reported incidents of police brutality during a strike by workers

Muslim Brotherhood journalist and blogger Abdelmoneim Mahmoud (Monem) was banned from traveling to Morocco on Thursday. He was invited to a conference on freedom of the press in Africa organized

Nasser al-Sha`er, former deputy Prime Minister in the Hamas cabinet, stressed that any attempt to end Fatah presence in Gaza at the hands of Hamas is neither in favor of

Change on the political landscape of the Middle East and North Africa – a region that has experienced the least turnover of leadership when compared with much of the rest

Last Christmas eve, I received a surprise telephone call from Mr Mohamed Mahdy Akef, the Supreme Guide of Muslim Brotherhood. He passed his greetings on to me and my family

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is John R. Bradley, a British journalist and author. His last book on the Middle East was the critically acclaimed Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom

Federal agencies, including the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counter Terrorism Center, are telling their people not to describe Islamic extremists as "jihadists" or "mujahedeen,"