Egypt: A war on the press?

The surprise verdict that came down this morning against the editors of four independent political tabloids is the herald of more repression to come — at least when it comes

Morsi: 9/11 a global calamity, not only for U.S.

Immediately after 9/11 attacks happened six years ago, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group condemned them, seeing them as totally divorced from any religion or creed, actions which are totally rejected

Shabolla’s New Song

Egyptian pop singer Shaaban Abdel Rehim a.k.a "shabolla" is currently producing a song about the latest rumors concerning President Mubarak’s health,

State Security Forces Storm Behera Islamic Bookstores

Al-Beheira State Security forces accompanied by IPR officers and some detectives broke almost simultaneously into Islamic bookstores in most regions in the governorate of El-Behera.

New version of political Islam

he victory of moderate Islamists in Turkey’s general and presidential elections coincided with a concerted crackdown by authorities in Egypt and Jordan against the Islamists.

Egypt Strives to Quell Mubarak Rumors

A prosecutor plans to question the editor of a newspaper that raised questions about the health of Egypt’s leader, a judicial official said Tuesday in the latest step by the

Brotherhood trial adjourns to Sunday amid allegations of police theft

The military trial of Muslim Brotherhood Deputy Chairman Khayrat El Shater and 39 others has been adjourned to Sunday, Sept. 9, after its tenth meeting on Tuesday devolved into an

Non-Turkish Misgivings

What causes astonishment, rather than admiration, in the aftermath of the recent victory of the Turkish Justice and Development Party, are the congratulations and comments expressed by many Islamists in

Amid civil war, reports mean little

The intense focus on Gen. David H. Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker obscures the essential irrelevance of the report they will make to Congress on Monday and,

Planning for Defeat

Foreign Policy An Iraqi whom I will call Ahmed lives in Saidiya, an area in south Baghdad where, in the nineteen-eighties, the regime of Saddam Hussein built large houses for