Despite Egypt’s official ban on political parties with a religious agenda, faith has been drawn into the fray ahead of the country’s first presidential election.

Egypt’s largest opposition movement, the banned but tolerated Muslim Brotherhood, urged Sunday its supporters to vote out incumbent Hosni Mubarak in the September 7 presidential poll.

The inevitable rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, so confidently predicted by many, now looks implausible. At a time when restrictions on Muslim

The countdown for Egypt’s first ever multi-candidate presidential elections—to be held on Wednesday—has begun. Last week Watani reviewed the election

Dr Saad Eddin Ibrahim published an article on May 24 in the International Herald Tribune (and in

The Muslim Brotherhood has vowed to carry on with its peaceful demonstrations for real political reforms in Egypt despite a crackdown by security forces.

Despite the arrest of at least 55 members, including leading figures, several thousand members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood took part in three demonstrations in Cairo Sunday, March 27, calling

About 1000 people have gathered in downtown Cairo to oppose any bid by President Husni Mubarak to run for a fifth term or by his son, Gamal, to become the

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a big speech in Cairo in June in which she set down

Bush’s dream of democratic Middle East may rest on engaging with Islamists