...the Internet has become not only a clearinghouse for Koranic text, but also for religious guidance and even fatwas (religious edicts). This new, global online Islam has been propagated by

Every Egyptian university has a unit which is shouldered with protecting university facilities. This unit is under direct supervision of the University President. However, we got used to notice that

It is often said that “Too much of a good thing can be bad.” The escalation in the official reaction to the criticism leveled by the EU Parliament at Cairo

In the late summer 2007, amid great anticipation from Egypt’s ruling elite and opposition movements, the Muslim Brotherhood distributed the first draft of a party platform to a group of

This crossed the wires this morning. First, we learned that Egypt was not mentioned in President Bush’s speech during his Middle East tour about Arab governments that are on the

I’m not sure there’s very much the US government can or should do, in practice, to push Egypt into becoming a democracy.

Protesting a disappointing performance and failure to rise up to the needs of the country and its people, the seniors of the Muslim Brotherhood group in Somalia recently elected a

An October report from Reporters without Borders indicates that the level of media freedom in both Egypt and Jordan has deteriorated over the past year following the jailing of several

Michele Dunne, a senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) and editor-in-chief of the CEIP’s Arab Reform Bulletin, sees that it is the Egyptian people’s right to have

Yesterday marked the release of Freedom in the World 2008, the annual survey of political rights and civil liberties published by Freedom House. The survey, published every year since 1972,