Egyptian Doctors’ Union called for staging a peaceful vigil next Tuesday, to protest at Egyptian government’s breaking pledges related to the doctors’ special cadre to improve their salaries.

Defining the US official attitude towards the Muslim Brotherhood seems to be very difficult due to a number of factors, including the multiple and various parties directly or indirectly involved

Several Arab human rights organizations condemned the Tunisian court ruling issued on Dec, 4th, 2007, sentencing journalist Salim Boukhdir to one year in prison following his conviction for harming morality

Dr. Ayman Nour has started his third year behind bars on December, 5th, without any possible plans to release him. A liberal figure who founded Al Ghad party, Ayman Nour

Since Monday, thousands of tax collectors from the Real Estate Tax Authority have made a downtown street their home. They’ve converged on Cairo from all over the country to stage

Muslim dictatorships have caused a lot of frustration. These days Islamists – individuals and groups who believe that their system of government should be based on Islamic principles – are

Egyptian state security services released nine of Al-Azhar University students out of the 22 Faculty of Education students detained earlier.

Muslim Brotherhood students in Asyut University held last Tuesday, Dec, 4th, 2007, a huge demonstration which included about 1000 students, in which they condemned the continuous closure of Rafah Border

You would think that small-d democrats would be pleased by recent events in Venezuela and Russia. Both countries held elections. Voters in those countries expressed the popular will -- in

CAIRO, Dec 7 (IPS) - For the last several months, politicians of all stripes have awaited release of the Muslim Brotherhood movement’s political party manifesto. According to spokesmen for the