A controversial draft platform from Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is prompting a rethink amongst advocates of engaging the Islamist movement. Women and non-Muslims would be barred from becoming president and a

In the last few months of 2007, Egypt has experienced a series of massive workers strikes, motivated by none other than poor standards of living and lack of privileges, foreboding

The disputes over the platform highlight the limits to the movement’s political evolution and the dominant influence of conservative salafist forces. Key figures in the Brotherhood have recently portrayed it

Abdel-Moneim Abul-Futuh, "one of the most dynamic and articulate spokesmen of the second-generation reformist faction", was among those pragmatists who stayed when the old guard’s traditionalism forced many second-generation reformers

Security Directions for the Safety and Security of Residents in the District of Zamalek

The American University in Cairo is a neatly landscaped stronghold of Egypt’s ruling elite, the alma mater of the wife and children of the country’s autocratic and deeply unpopular president,

Analysts and activists in the Middle East say the year 2007 in some Arab countries was marked by backtracking from the tentative moves toward more democratization and openness that had

In the debate around regulatory policy (managed policy), the "principle of the social state" - that is the harmonization of social differences ("social question") - plays a key role. In

General Musharraf thought about using the atomic bomb, when provoking the « Glaciers War », in Kargil, 1999. The release of an investigative work containing this - and other worrisome

The U.S. plans for an attack on Iran envision to sacrifice the Fifth Fleet in order to justify a nuclear retaliation. This is not a hypothetical scenario, but a real