Arranged marriages can be a messy business. Designed principally as a means of accumulating wealth, circumventing undesirable flirtations or transcending clandestine love affairs, they often don’t work. Where both parties

A prominent leader of Egypt’s most powerful opposition group who is standing trial in a military court said Monday that the proceedings against him and 39 other senior members of

[JURIST] A leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder], who is standing before a military trial in Egypt on money laundering and terror charges,

Egyptian police detained 20 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood in the Nile Delta province of Sharkia on Thursday, the Brotherhood and police said.

It’s about the oldest dispute around, which is good enough reason to hear more on it from those who can influence a possible resolution. So when Abdelwahab Derbal, head of

The story revolves around the two girls’ attempts to find somewhere to pray at half-time, which takes them to the first-aid room where Zeenat (rendered by Ullah in the classic

Human Rights Watch accused Egyptian government of arresting 22 suspected Islamists, without any proof, and forcing them to give confessions of committing which they didn’t commit.

A blacklist that includes names of policemen involved in committing tortures against Egyptian citizens during the period between 2003 and 2006 was issued in the Egyptian capital Cairo ahead of

Mohamed Mahdi Akef, the Chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) condemned the explosions that hit the Algerian capital Algiers on Tuesday morning Dec, 11th, 2007, killing more than 50 persons

A State Department official told Congress last week that General Pervez Musharraf’s decision to suspend Pakistan’s constitution, impose martial law, sack and detain Supreme Court judges and arrest thousands of